Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #294

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 28 November – 4 December.

Thanks to @OxonAndrews for Headington’s Christmas tree and hot chocolate!

@Howard_S took these photos of the switch-on by Lord Mayor Altaf Khan.

The planning application from the ‘Wychwood Foundation’ to build on land next to the C S Lewis nature reserve is not on the agenda of the East Area Planning Committee on 7 December. It is, though, listed for future consideration.

On the other hand, the planning application for a three-storey development at 91 Lime Walk which I reported in HH 292 and which triggered much discussion on the e-democracy forum is on the agenda with a recommendation for refusal.

I made a map of the current heatpipe and Access to Headington roadworks in Headington and those coming up next. I’ll keep it up to date week by week.

St Ebbe’s Church Headington @EbbesHeadington (in Lime Walk) joined twitter.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Reply – 91 Lime Walk
  • Disruption
  • Christmas craft evening, 9th December, Quarry Village Hall
  • GivingTuesday support for Oxford HM
  • Tree-planting ceremony, Warneford Meadow, 11 am tomorrow Friday 2 Dec
  • Headington Christmas tree

Headington Headlines #293

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 21 – 27 November.

Roadworks start today (Monday  28 November) on laying the Energy Project pipeline between the JR and Churchill hospitals. The affected locations are Latimer Road as far as Latimer Grange, and All Saints Road from Barrington Close to Lime Walk. These works are scheduled to run until Friday 16 December. You can see the full schedule here.

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.

The Care Quality Commission’s latest report on Southern Health Trust, based on an inspection in September this year, says that they found “there had been a number of significant improvements made to the governance arrangements in order to identify and prioritise risks arising from the physical environment more effectively”.

I haven’t seen anything official, but I’m told that the @manorsurgery car park will be closed for at least two more weeks.

Oxford’s Lord Mayor and Headington Ward Councillor Altaf Khan was in the news after a Private Eye freedom of information request found that he was among several Oxfordshire councillors who had been summoned for non-payment of council tax. He has now paid the money owing.

Dan Greenall, who runs @OxfordVapours, won Young Entrpreneur of the Year in a competition run by accountancy firm Haines Watts.

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

  • Oxford Winter Cycle Safety
  • Reply – 91 Lime Walk
  • Parking suspension notices for energy pipe route

There was also a post about the loss of local rural bus services.

Headington Headlines #292

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 14 – 20 November.

With heatpipe work starting in Sandfield Road early in the New Year, local councillors held a street surgery on Sunday (20 November) in Sandfield Road for residents to ask any questions about how they will be affected. The full schedule of works and timings as they stand at the moment are on the project’s website.

Heatpipe Street Surgery in Sandfield Road
Heatpipe Street Surgery in Sandfield Road

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.

The civil engineering contractors @C_A_Blackwell preparing the @BartonPark_ site for the housebuilders reported that the major earthworks are completed and that their work on the A40 junction is complete apart from some minor work to be done in the new year. This coincided with the removal of the 30mph speed limit around the new junction.

There were reports of ‘vandalism’ – or just plain stupid behaviour – at the Access to Headington roadworks at the Gipsy Lane/Old Road junction. Lights, barriers and signs were turned round or moved.

Headington library re-opened on Wednesday after being closed while the boiler was repaired.

I wrote another instalment of the story of the planning application to build next to the C S Lewis nature reserve in Risinghurst.

This video from @Oxford_Brookes about the Northway and Marston flood alleviation scheme is on the City Council website, where the scheme has its own dedicated page.

@ThatsOxon TV also covered the official launch of the scheme – here’s their video.

@ThamesVP report a burglary and an attempted burglary, both in Marsh Lane, Marston last Thursday.

The thread “Lime Walk Planning Permission for THREE storey block of flats” in the H&M e-democracy forum is about 91 Lime Walk. The application is to demolish the existing bulding and to build in its place a 3-storey block of 9 flats. This is the house in question.

91 Lime Walk
91 Lime Walk (pic: Google maps)

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Oxford Winter Cycle Safety
  • Lime Walk Planning Permission for THREE storey block of flats [also ‘Reply’ and ‘Reply – 91 Lime walk’]