Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #366

TonyOX3

It’s been a bit quiet in OX3 this week. Here’s a rather sparse round-up of local news for 16 – 22 April.

Oxford High Street will be closed to traffic from The Plain to King Edward Street from 0200 to 0900 on May morning (Tuesday 1 May). The ban includes bicycles, both ridden and pushed.

@RuthWilk reports that a roadworks alert database indicates the Access to Headington work on Headley Way may start this week.

A full planning application to build one 3-bed and two 4-bed houses on the site of The Quarry Gate has been submitted and is on the City Council website (ref: 18/00939/FUL).

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Gas man again
  • Child’s lost toy

Headington Headlines #365

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 9 – 15 April.

The candidates standing for election in the City on 3 May have been announced. My post covering the OX3 wards is here and you can download the full list for the city here.

There’s also an election for Old Marston Parish Councillors the same day. Thirteen candidates are standing for twelve places, which for whoever comes last is rather reminiscent of being the last to be picked for the class rounders team. The official list of candidates is here.

The three 1-hour parking bays in Lime Walk outside the Britannia are going to be suspended from 17 April to 15 June in connection with Access to Headington work.

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

  • Bury knowle park, stealth closure/reduction of facilities
  • Family search help – Lavin at The Fox

Headington Headlines #364

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 2 – 8 April.

The Churchill Hospital is to be one of the new ‘one-stop shop’ centres for rapid cancer diagnosis.

There’s a planning application (ref. 18/00837/FUL) to build two new homes in the back garden of the house on the corner of Sandfield and Woodlands Roads. Access would be by a new entrance on Woodlands. Whether you think this would be a regrettable loss of green garden space or a welcome densification which will provide more much-needed housing is up to you. But I couldn’t help noticing the contrast between the idealised sylvan image in the architects’ computer-generated street elevation and the reality of Woodlands Road. Comments on the planning application close on 1 May.

Police are appealing for witnesses and information about a break-in at @TheAmpRevival in Risinghurst on Tuesday night when £1300 was stolen. Oxford Mail report here.

A Barton man has been given an eighteen month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to charges of sexual incitement. The man thought he was online with a 13-year old girl and was eventually confronted by ‘vigilantes’ outside his home.

The East Area Planning Committee gave Ruskin College planning permission for their student accommodation developments (see HH 337). They also gave permission for building four retirement homes on the playing field behind Bracegirdle Road (HH 358).

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

    • Oxford needs a decent science and technology museum