Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #342

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 30 October – 5 November.

Police cordoned off part of Copse Lane in Marston last weekend after reports that a teenage girl had been assaulted.

EF International’s planning application to redevelop their site at Cotuit Hall (reported in HH312) goes to the east Area Planning Committee on Wednesday this week (8 November). The officers’ recommendation is to approve the application subject to conditions. One of the conditions is for a travel plan:

The plan shall detail how pupil access to the site is to be managed, including at start/end of terms, how vehicle movements to and from the site are to be minimised, the means for implementing the plan, method of monitoring and amending the plan on an annual basis. The results of the annual monitoring exercise shall be submitted to the local planning authority in writing and the travel plan amended accordingly in light of discussions with the local planning authority.

Last week I mentioned the missing cycle parking stands at Westgate. Here’s the story.

Since then work has started to install the missing racks.

Staying with the cycling theme, here’s our very own EF language schools in their latest sponsorship venture. This is a World Tour Team so expect to see them in all the big races.

The highest-ranked football team based in OX3, @OxCityFC, who are second bottom in the National League South, pulled off a great victory against League Two’s Colchester, 56 places above them, with a 1-0 away win in the first round of the FA Cup.

Following the official opening of the Margaret Road sports pavilion last week, here’s the Oxford Mail’s article and picture gallery about it.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Bright white lighting
  • Beech House

Headington Headlines #341

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 23 – 29 October.

It seems like the whole week’s focus has been down the hill at Westgate, which opened on Tuesday. There’s a story about its lack of bike parking spaces but that’s for a separate article. Otherwise my Headington antenna only picked up two stories this week.

Although Heavenly Desserts is open, it will have a Grand Opening on Friday 3 November, according to the Oxford Mail.

The new pavilion at the Margaret Road sports field officially opened on Friday.

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

  • Bus stops from Oxford all different now
  • Opening of Quarry Pavilion on Friday (27 Oct 2017)

Headington Headlines #340

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 16 – 22 October.

A “Gang of Four” youths stole a CCTV security camera from a house in North Place, next to Bury Knowle Park.

An overheating laptop in a drawer in a house in Quarry Hollow caused a fire on Monday when clothes in the drawer were set alight. Fire crews attended and dealt with the incident.

The Boundary Commission published its proposals for realigning Oxford’s constituencies. Oxford East would be renamed Oxford, and extended westwards to include the Botley Road, Jericho and Binsey. Oxford West and Abingdon would be renamed Abingdon and Oxford North. This interactive map shows the proposed new boundaries. You have until 11 December to comment (link on the same page as the map).

The water supply to Risinghurst, Sandhills and parts of Headington failed on Wednesday morning due to a burst main in Marston and a breakdown at a pumping station. Supply was back on around the middle of the day.

The official opening of the new pavilion in the Margaret Road sports ground is at 5pm on Friday 27 October. All local residents welcome.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Theft of CCTV Camera – Old Headington