Exeter College will not get a decision on its plans for the former home of Ruskin College in Walton Street, Oxford, just yet.

Members of Oxford City Council’s West Area Planning Committee voted on Tuesday to defer a decision on the scheme for 90 study bedrooms, fellows’ studies, teaching rooms, a café, a lecture hall, and a new Oxford quadrangle as the centrepiece of the redeveloped site.

The need to acquire listed building consent and insufficient legal agreements were reasons for the deferral.