Council rents out historic buildings to save £210k
Oxford City Council - now based at the city's Town Hall - approved the plan earlier this month
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A council has agreed to rent out five of its empty Grade II listed buildings as part of a plan to save £210,000 a year.
Oxford City Council approved letting the properties on Ship Street and St Michael's Street on 125-year leases.
It said each have been empty for years because of "considerable dilapidations affecting their structures and consequent difficulties in letting them".
The authority said it would help the properties' restorations without it having to pay for the work itself.
The Ship Street properties were formally listed in 1954, while the one in St Michael's Street was listed in 1968.
Most of them have been used as hostel or student accommodation over recent years.
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