Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #273

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Headington Headlines #273

Your weekly round-up of local news for 4 – 10 July.

The heatpipe  planning application still hadn’t appeared on the Council’s website by the end of the week.

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.

Headington’s Iceland will be closed for refurbishment from 28 July to 4 August.

A woman was arrested after a man was stabbed in the neck in Barton last Sunday.

The Marston and Northway flood alleviation scheme was approved by the East Area planning committee.

The planning application for the JR’s Ronald McDonald House also got planning permission.

My favourite OX3-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Accessible Transport
  • Local plan for Oxford gets a refresh

Headington Headlines #272

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 27 June – 3 July.

Vital Energi and the OUH HNS Foundation Trust have released a nine-minute video about the whole Energy Project. It doesn’t say much about laying the heatpipe through the streets – they say “We have deliberately kept away from covering the detail of the Planning Application as this situation changes so quickly that the video would have been out of date before anyone had seen it” – but it does try to explain what the project is all about, why it’s needed and what it will achieve. See it on YouTube at www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX-rbcVSV5Y.

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.

I took a couple of pictures at the Barton Park A40 access link in Foxwell Drive – see my note.

A Brexit banner at Headington Farmers’ Market provoked an outburst on the e-dem forum.

Our MP Andrew Smith voted against the ‘no confidence’ motion against Jeremy Corbyn, but nonetheless believes Corbyn should quit as leader of the Labour party.

Marston Medical Centre will merge with the Bury Knowle Partnership on 1 July. The Marston centre will stay open for the time being, but it’s not expected to be able to continue for very long, it seems.

A Goth store popped-up in @HubinHeadington on Saturday.

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

  • Local plan for Oxford gets a refresh
  • Local Plan
  • At least six shops to let in Headington
  • Headington Farmers BREXIT UKIP Market
  • Energy pipe
  • Parking
  • Brookes & Islamic Centre events vehicles

Headington Headlines #271

TonyOX3

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

There’s a placard in Waitrose where children between 7 and 12 years can have their photo taken to enter a competition to be a mascot for the England cricket team.

For reasons that are not entirely clear, Barton & Sandhills Councillor @redmikerowley was ejected from the referendum count at the Town Hall. He apologised on twitter on Sunday.

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Headington & Barton’s Team Purple were June’s repeat winners in the City Council’s blue bin recycling league.

A man in his 70s was treated for smoke inhalation by paramedics before being taken to the JR after a fire broke out in Alison Clay House in Old High Street on Thursday night.

My favourite OX3-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Accessible transport
  • Friar site for sale
  • Closure of Parking Shop
  • AC Niel[s]en building and A40 surveying work