Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #315

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 24 – 30 April.

As of last Wednesday (27 April) and until 22 May, heatpipe works mean the 700 buses won’t be able to serve some of the stops on the Churchill Hospital site.

All my posts about the project are under the ‘Energy Project’ tab in the main menu, and there’s a page of links and contact details here.

Labour MEP for the South-East @AnnelieseDodds, who lives in Rose Hill, has been selected as Labour candidate for Oxford East after @AndrewSmithMP stood down. Here is her statement to Labour supporters.

Anneliese Dodds
Anneliese Dodds

A burst water main at the junction of Marston Road and Crotch Crescent on Monday was “more complex” than Thames Water originally thought. Service had been restored by early evening.

@blackmambatatto have won the right to retain their web domain name blackmambatattoo.co.uk after the original registrant and designer was untraceable. Good luck with the new website.

Leaflets promoting a ‘Yes’ vote for the @HeadingtonPlan on Thursday have been delivered throughout Headington.

The Iris Project, who run the Classics centre at Cheney School, has opened an in-school museum. It’s called the Rumble Museum @Rumblemuseum, named after Jamie Rumble. Their facebook page tells you more about it and there’s more in the Oxford Times.

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

  • Headington Plan – what’s next?

Headington Headlines #314

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 17 – 23 April.

Oxford East MP Andrew Smith has announced he will not be standing for re-election on 8 June.

Andrew’s replacement as Labour’s candidate will be chosen by Labour at national level, not by the local party. Andrew was nice about it in a television interview I saw but I can imagine not everyone in Oxford would say the same. South-East MEP @AnnelieseDodds has said she is very keen to be selected, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Artisan distillers @thespiritoftoad who are converting buildings at the top of South Park into a distillery (see the original story in HH 269, 286 and 287) have submitted a planning application (ref: 17/00913/FUL) for the “Erection of Visitor Centre comprising cafe/restaurant, tasting room and bar for distillery and public conveniences”. Fans of the Oxford comma might snort lightly at this point. The picture is from the planning application. The window for comments closes on 15 May.

Back in February last year I reported that an organisation called Chapel Street Community Schools Trust was hoping to open a new Free School in Headington. There were some reasons to be dubious about the proposal, and now it seems it’s not going to happen.

Headington resident Ben McFadyean is one of the leading lights behind a multi-cultural football tournament happening at Iffley Road Sports Ground on Sunday 7 May starting at 9.30am. The winning team in the 8-a-side tournament will be presented with a trophy at the Kassam Stadium.

A voluntary smoking ban in the City Council’s children’s play areas, trialled in Sandfield Road and elsewhere, has been rolled out across the whole city. This includes Bury Knowle Park, obviously. Although vouluntary, the council hopes it will encourage people not to smoke in the children’s areas.

Nasher, aka Brian Nash, guitarist from Frankie Goes to Hollywood, performs @TheMasonsArmsHQ on Saturday 6 May.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

This is surely a record! For the second week in a row there have been no posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum.

Headington Headlines #313

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 10 – 16 April.

As the heatpipe works on the London Road continue, we learn that the finishing touches to the road surfaces in Highfield will mean more road closures – albeit brief – in early May. The work is to re-lay sections of tactile paving and to reinstate the road surface on a section of All Saints Road which Vital Energi say they are “not happy” with. For full details follow this link.

All my posts about the project are under the ‘Energy Project’ tab in the main menu, and there’s a page of links and contact details here.

After a long absence from the news 29 Old High Street is back!

SSE say they have found the fault that was causing intermittent power failures in and around Old Headington.

The recently-enlarged Manor Surgery in Osler Road [*whispers* which has already been open for about six weeks] will have a Grand Opening on Saturday 13 May. @AndrewSmithMP will do the honours and there will be tours of the building, meet-the-doctors sessions and refreshemnts. It all happens between 11.30 and 13.30.

The Desi Lounge restaurant, ex-Bar Meze, seems to have been short-lived. There’s a landlord’s Possession Notice in the window.

The Headington & Marston e-democracy forum has been silent this week.