Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #345

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Your weekly round-up of local news for 20 – 26 November.

One of the most prestigious houses in Oxford, let alone Headington, is on the market for a mere £5.25m. High Wall in Pullen’s lane has been up for sale since the summer but it’s popped up again on my news feed. Here’s a description of it on Prime Resi (‘Journal of Luxury Property’), and here’s Savills listing. The garden, but not the house, is Grade II listed. As always, headington.org.uk has all the history.

Headington’s Christmas lights will be switched on next Friday (1 December). I’m told there will be carol singing and mince pies!

The shop that was Electric Aids in Windmill Road has opened as Homewood Funeral Directors – Headington’s fourth undertakers.

In a rare example of a communnity pub making a comeback from closure, the Ampleforth Arms in Risinghurst opened on Saturday. All those concerned deserve hearty congratulations. Here are their opening hours for the rest of the week. Which leads me onto …

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Nielsen House

Headington Headlines #344

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 13 – 19 November.

A medical tribunal has found that the ‘fitness to practise’ of the doctor responsible for Connor Sparrowhawk’s care when he died at Slade House in 2013 has been impaired. A decision on appropriate disciplinary action will be taken in December.

Thames Water did a CCTV survey of the Kennett Road sinkhole and declared it was not their problem. The hole was finally filled in permanently* on Thursday.
* Allegedly.

As predicted, the EF planning application for Cotuit Hall has been called in to the Planning Review Committee. The next meeting is on 13 December.

The houses being built behind Waynflete Road in Barton (see original report in HH 262) are being marketed by Cala Homes. Although they are in Barton the site is in South Oxford District Council.

They haven’t said why, but Oxford Bus Company announced that as from yesterday (Sunday), the 400 P&R service will once again be stopping at both the Headington School and Brookes/Headington Hill stops in both directions.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

There were no new posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

Headington Headlines #343

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 6 – 12 November.

Distressing news broke this week with Bill “Father of the Shark” Heine making public that he has acute myeloid leukemia. He has said his doctors have “given him 18 months” – and that was three months ago.

Bill Heine
Bill Heine

With the Neighbourhood Plan having originally been marginalised in the committee papers the East Area Planning Committee refused EF International’s planning application for Cotuit Hall. The decision may be still be called in for review – we’ll know by the end of Tuesday. Full story here.

The new Marston Medical Centre opened on Thursday. It is in Old Marston Road next to the Co-op.

Planning permission has been given for a portable building to be placed outside the JR’s A&E department. It will be staffed by GPs and used to assess and (presumably) treat arrivals who are judged not to need hospital admission. A form of triage-by-GP, it seems, designed to cut emergency waiting times.

There was Headington hospital heatpipe happiness on Friday with the official opening of the Energy Centre at the JR. They announced savings of £231k – that’s nearly a quarter of a million pounds – in the first full month’s operation.

The Kennett Road pothole may be a sinkhole.

A Marston community project “Walk on the Wild Side” is asking for your votes to get funding.

St Andrew’s School Christmas Craft Fair is on Sunday 3 December – details here.

Do you need a bike in Oxford? There are seven hire companies and a sharing scheme to choose from.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Please vote for Marston’s Walk on the Wildside charitable project!