Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #39

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Here is my round-up of local news for the week 21 – 27 November —

News broke that the City Council will not designate Headington car park as land for housing in the forthcoming Policy and Preferred Options Document. While local residents and businesses celebrated, accusatory squabbles broke out between Labour and LibDem councillors and supporters over who should take credit: the LibDems for opposing it all along, or Labour for listening to people’s concerns.

It looks like another contest may be brewing between Northway residents who want to get land between the Ring Road and Northway designated a Town Green to prevent it being used to build access roads, and the City Council who apparently are threatening to ‘appropriate’ it.

Six student community wardens have been appointed by @Oxford_Brookes to patrol the Gipsy Lane, Cheney Lane and Divinity Road areas. The wardens will patrol in pairs, with each area having at least two two-hour patrols a week.

Thames Valley Police has charged a 27-year-old man with seven counts of theft from motor vehicles in Cheney Lane, Headington in October, and a Headington man was arrested on suspicion of a sexual assault in Marsh Road, Cowley

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Road signs in cycle lanes

  • Headington Car Park

  • Road signs in cycle lanes and Gritting

  • The Brookes bus

I try to cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.

Headington Headlines #38

TonyOX3

Here is my round-up of local news for the week 14 – 20 November —

Agents Breckon & Breckon officially opened their new Headington lettings office and are on twitter as @Breckonlettings.

Private healthcare provider Nuffield Health is taking over the BMI Oxford Clinic, moving from Windmill Rd to Manor Hospital.

The Big Bang Pop-up Saucissonerie at Brookes’ Restaurant lived up to its description and closed after a brief lifespan of only two weeks.

A suggestion to relieve traffic congestion in Headley Way by building a £33m tunnel connecting the JR Hospital (and possibly Ruskin Fields) to the Highfield area of Headington was dismissed as impractical by, well, almost everybody.

The Lime Walk/All Saints Road junction is closed until 25 November.

There was a robbery at the Stan James betting shop on the Roundway on Tuesday evening. @TVP_Oxford are appealing for witnesses.

Two people were arrested after a stabbing at a property in Valentia Road on Friday.

Barton-based @EshaMessyJam who runs the MessyJam dance school in Blackbird Leys with young people from Blackbird Leys and Barton is hoping to raise £5000 so the dancers can take part in an international dance competition in France next year.

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Old Road Campus and Park Hospital

  • Thornhill Park and Ride….again

  • Mac & McKay Flowershop

  • Ruskin Fields

I try to cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.

Headington Headlines #37

TonyOX3

Not much to report this week but here is my round-up of local news for the week 7 – 13 November —

Ruskin College submitted revised plans for building housing on 2 of the three Ruskin Fields. The development, called Headington Meads, would include town houses along with apartments and flats in four-storey buildings in the north west part of the site, according to @oxfordshirenews.

There was a fight outside the Quarry Gate pub at about 1:00am last Sunday morning. Five police cars attended and a casualty was taken away in an ambulance.

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Goodbye Keef?
  • Quarry Gate pub
  • McDonalds early morning deliveries
  • Ruskin Fields

I try to cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.