Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #303

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 30 January – 5 February.

The planning application for the redevelopment of the Stansfeld Outdoor Centre is on the agenda for the East Area Planning Committee on Wednesday (8 February – item 4). The recommendation is that permission is granted subject to conditions.

The overnight road closures for the Access to Headington works at Old Road/Gipsy Lane/Warneford Lane/Roosevelt Drive start tonight (Monday 6 February). Here’s the full schedule. The work originally planned for Monday 13 February has been rescheduled. It will now be done on Saturday 11 February. Either way it will be the last of the overnight road closures for this work.

Both Oxford MPs, @AndrewSmithMP and @nicolablackwood, voted FOR the ‘Brexit Bill’ to give the Prime Minister authority to trigger Article 50. Both were supporting the Remain camp before the referendum.

The application to build at the top of Wychwood Lane, next to the C S Lewis nature reserve, is still not on the Committee’s agenda.

Did you know there’s an Oxfordshire Badger Group? There is, and they’re very worried about the effects of development on our stripey-faced friends. The A40 near the new Barton Park is apparently a particularly dangerous place for them. The Group is on twitter at @OxonBadgers

Headington Quarry Foundation Stage School joined twitter as @HQFSS_Oxford. They need your votes to help get a new climbing frame through the Tesco Bags of Help scheme.

Also new to twitter is Headington Reporting @OX3reporting, a site which posts examples of potholes, blocked drains and similar local issues. Despite the name it’s nothing to do with me, nor I’m assured with @HeadingtonNews.

And don’t confuse the Headington-based account @HeadingHeritage with the not-Headington-based @HeadHeritage.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Disruption

Headington Headlines #302

TonyOX3

It’s been a quiet week but here’s your weekly round-up of local news for 23 – 29 January.

There are some small delays to the schedule of roadworks for the Energy Project. The most up-to-date information is on the Hospital Estates Department website. Work on the next section of Lime Walk starts today and the next section of Sandfield Road starts tomorrow. Neither of these affect the diversion arrangements.

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.

There will be overnight road closures at the Access to Headington works at the Old Road – Gipsy Lane – Warneford Lane – Roosevelt Drive junction from 7pm – 6am between 6 – 13 February. Details including diversions here.

In what must surely be a forlorn hope, @TheOxfordMail reported that a Cowley restaurateur is prepared to buy the fire-gutted Jack Russell (Marston) pub and re-open it.

Addresses in Barton and Northway were among those raided in a major anti-drugs police operation on Tuesday morning.

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

  • Hedge Vandalism

Headington Headlines #301

TonyOX3

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

@HistoricEngland‘s campaign to list all England’s WW1 war memorials continues, with both Old Marston and New Marston memorials being given grade II listed status.

Twitchers have been excited by sightings of waxwings in and around Headington & Marston.

Headington cemetery appeared very briefly as a location in Sunday’s episode of Endeavour.

Headington Hill bridge joined in the “Bridges not Walls” day of action on Friday.

The Very Reverend Bob Jeffery, Vicar of St Andrew’s in Old Headington from 1971 to 1978, has died aged 81.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week – chainsaw artist Matt Cave has created Aslan from a tree stump in Bury Knowle Park:

There’s another pictureof Aslan, this time by @rossmackenzie here on instagram.

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

  • Hedge vandalism