A decision will be made tonight on a scheme to build 101 student rooms in a residential street in West Oxford.

Oxford City Council’s west oxford planning committee will decide the proposals for the Innovation House Business Centre in Mill Street.

And in a few weeks, plans for a new development of 74 student rooms in the same street will be decided at a planning appeal hearing.

If the Innovation House scheme goes ahead, developers said they would pay £100,000 towards affordable housing in the city.

But residents say this is just the latest in a long line of applications for student housing they are being forced to fight.

Brendan Carter, 65, who has lived in the street for 40 years, said: “We are just being turned into a campus. I’m not against students, but this is really changing the area and I don’t think for the better.”

Locals told the Oxford Mail in December that they felt “under siege” by all the planning applications being submitted on their street.

In the past few years, they have fought plans for a probation centre and numerous student flat plans with placards, petitions and public meetings.

Mr Carter said: “It’s just a bit annoying when facilities like our health centre are going and yet the students keep on coming.”

Developers for Innovation House, HXRUK3, have agreed to pay £100,000 towards affordable housing, nearly £14,000 to cycling and transport measures, £6,363 towards library facilities, £704 towards off-site fire hydrants and £6,000 for sports facilities.

Planning officers have recommended the application should be rejected because of the loss of business space, and because its look would be “detrimental to the appearance of the building”.