Spratley & Partners has secured planning permission to deliver a boat club for an independent Oxford girls’ school that has provided more than 100 rowers for Great Britain over the years.

The practice’s “Maddy Moorings” development will be built for Headington School at an 8ha site in Long Wittenham to the south of Oxford, replacing rented facilities at Godstow.

Spratley said Maddy Moorings would give the school a facility with 300m of River Thames frontage. The site is just upstream of the Barley Mow pub, where Jerome K Jerome wrote Three Men in a Boat, the practice said.

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