Community Centre drone footage

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 21:32

That will be the Beer Festival then - can't wait

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 20:34

Can't wait for the free-roaming beers down by the station....

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 18:11

What a fantastic use. If it should every need a change of use we could have our own herd of white elephants and pink giraffes in there. I'd volunteer to be the keeper of the Charlbury Wildlfe Park. They could graze Nine Acres and the TC could save on the grounds maintenance. We could have free roaming beers and wolves down by the station keeping the illegal parkers at bay. However I feel it is unlikely that the centre will suffer from lack of hirers or users given all the displaced use presently going on in Witney and Chippy by Charlbury residents

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 16:40

Yes, Graham, there is extensive information about plans which The Thomas Gifford Trust will again present to the town at our annual meeting (in the next few months). In the meantime, we'd be happy to give you a brief update if you contact me to arrange - mglasgow@theridgegroup.com

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 16:02

While it is interesting to see a bird's eye view of the new building, is there a publicly available plan of the building's interior with information about the intended use of the various areas?

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 15:20

With a building of this size would have thought there would have been room to have a sports and social club room. It will be interesting to see if this will used fully or a white elephant

Sun 22 Jan 2017, 14:36

How negative to comment on just the steel frame !

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 19:13

When it's finished I'm sure it will look amazing, there are both positives and negatives regards the new center.
But I truly believe it will be one of the best things to have happened to our town in my 44 years.
Thanks to all involved.

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 13:56

Not sure the football club, cricket club, tennis club etc etc would agree with that!

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 13:41

It would make a great multi-storey car park, all of the towns parking trouble sorted much better :-)

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 12:11

Maybe those complaining would like to get together & raise £2m for the type of charlbury facility that they support

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 11:20

James, don't get me wrong I like glass and steel, I would love to be able to build my own. Not sure if Charlbury is ready for it though, would be nice to see some contemporary designs going up!

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 10:44

As an agricultural building it fits right in round there then!
I agree with Russell. It's the 21st century and these amazing materials - glass and steel - are now available to architects and builders.

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 10:35

I agree Stephen, a bit like an Agricultural Building and much taller than envisaged as the ground there is higher than the Spendlove Offices.

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 10:11

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The benefits are the opportunities it brings to the community. It also might be time to consider faux cotswold pastiche is not necessarily the best design for 21st century development in the future.

Thu 19 Jan 2017, 07:33

Not a thing of beauty. No architectoral awardsto be won here.

Wed 18 Jan 2017, 20:24

Good to see how empty the car park is!

Wed 18 Jan 2017, 15:49

That's brilliant James, it looks huge doesn't it...... I don't have a Twitter account but was able see it straight away.

Wed 18 Jan 2017, 14:35

Someone sent me this on Twitter - drone footage of the building work at the Community Centre taken last week by the looks of it. Dunno if you have to have a Twitter account to view it, but here's the link. goo.gl/TP7OKi