Berkeley Homes has increased the number of houses and student flats it wants to build on the site of the Slade Park Territorial Army barracks in Headington.

The developer has bought the site from Oxford City Council and this week it submitted detailed plans to build 72 houses and flats, along with blocks for students, with 362 study bedrooms.

The deal is thought to have put more than £5m into the coffers of the city council, which is facing a multi-million-pound deficit in next year's budget.

The new plans see a substantial increase in the number of homes and flats proposed for the site. In June the council gave outline planning permission for 53 houses and 276 student rooms.

Berkeley will be developing the site with Unite, which specialises in student accommodation.

The site, in Mascall Avenue was leased to the Ministry of Defence by the city council and has been been home to the city's Territorial Army units since the 1950s.

Part of the site was recently vacated by the TA and the rest will be handed over in December next year. The barracks buildings will then be demolished.

About a quarter of the proceeds of the sale will go to the MoD, which had still had 20 years to run on its lease. The money will help provide a new TA base at Abingdon's Dalton Barracks. Work on this project is due to start this month and is due for completion next August.

The city council has already decided that its share of the windfall will be used to improve the council's housing stock.

The detailed planning application proposes closing Mascall Avenue, with a new access to the site being created off Blackstock Close.

The student accommodation will be predominantly three-storey and four-storey buildings, with flat roofs, alongside 49 one and two-bedroom flats and 23 three and four-bedroom houses.

Tony Joyce, chairman of the co-ordinating committee of Headington Residents' Associations, said: "My first impression is that in some ways the layout has been improved, so it is capable of taking more housing than first proposed."