Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #253

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 8 – 14 February.

There’s a brief energy project round-up 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.

Copse Lane, Marston will be closed east of Eden Drive from today (Monday) to Friday for construction of a pedestrian crossing.

Waitrose has submitted a planning application (ref: 15/03655/FUL) to put out tables & chairs on its Old High Street frontage.

A Barton man was sentenced to 6 years in jail for an assault with a bottle in March last year.

The group that runs the Tyndale School off Barracks Lane is interested in opening a new free primary school in Headington. I wrote a background piece about it.

@Oxonbike is going to add 16 electric bikes to its fleet this Spring. They say “Funding has been provided by the Dept of Transport and Oxford University to trial the interest and use of rental e-bikes within the scheme.” (And is ‘fleet’ the right term for a corporate set of bikes?)

Finders Keepers removed their advertising hoarding from the corner of Latimer Road after planning enforcement action.

A man from Headington was killed in an accident on the M40 near Banbury on the night of Sunday 7 February.

An enforcement notice has been served on the owner of 14 Sandfield Road requiring the fence to be lowered and the site cleared of excess materials.

Windmill Primary School @WindmillOxfordwas given an “outstanding” rating by Ofsted after an inspection last June.

A ‘small fire‘ at Oxford Brookes’ Abercrombie Building on Thursday evening became a ‘blaze‘ by the time the news reached @TheOxfordMail.

The two people arrested in connection with the Lloyd’s Bank robbery (see HH 250) appeared in Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with robbery.

Also on Friday a person riding a bike was taken to hospital in a “serious but not life-threatening condition” after someone hit them with a car.

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

  • Disruption
  • Tower block refurbishment
  • Empty ground-floor premises in Headington centre

Headington Headlines #252

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 1 – 7 February.

The deadline for comments on Vital Energi’s planning application for the heatpipe has been extended to 25 February. There’s still only one public comment, although discussion continues in the ‘Disruption‘ thread on the e-democracy forum.

The County Council has announced the dates for a series of public exhibitions about the next stage of the Access to Headington traffic scheme. I’ve copied the information to a post under the Access 2H heading.

A 16-year old has been arrested in connection with the robbery at Lloyd’s bank on 23 January (see HH 250).

The East Area Planning Committeee voted 5:4 on Wednesday to give planning permission for housing to be built on Warren Crescent, which lies above the Lye Valley. Campaigners fear the special and fragile environment of the Valley will be irrevocably damaged. The planning reference is 13/01555/CT3.

The shop that used to be Osheey (Windmill Road, west side) is about to re-open as a gelateria called Adria – although as @headingtonnews has pointed out, they haven’t got change of use planning permission yet.

Adria gelateria, Windmill Road
Picture c/o @Icehairspa

Allen & Harris estate agents have closed their Headington office. The office is on London Road, north side, opposite Holyoake Road. They have been there since the mid-1970s.

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

  • Disruption
  • Cold callers selling goods
  • Access to Headington – gloves off for round 2!

Headington Headlines #251

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 25 – 31 January.

I have no further news about the Energy Project this week. So far only one public comment appears on the Council’s website – an objection based on a claim that Vital Energi have no right to excavate in sub-soil owned by the frontagers of the properties past which the pipes will run. 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.

Work has started to make a new Post Office in the Co-op. The opening date is now Monday 15 February.

Shopfitters have started work on the new Post Office in the Co-op.
Shopfitters have started work on the new Post Office in the Co-op.

The Planning Review Committee on Wednesday gave planning permission for the Latimer Road student housing, subject to the developers coming up with a satisfactory solution to screen Headington Prep School from being overlooked. People are now concerned about the timing of the construction possibly coinciding with the heatpipe road works, but at present there’s no information on the timing of either.

Headington’s contribution to the Cecil Rhodes statue debate:

Headington Pet and Garden Store (it’s on the corner of Stile Road opposite the Co-op) is closing down.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week – is that David Beckham outside the chip-shop in Barton?

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

  • The Headington Plan – whats next? (August 2015)
  • Northway Update
  • Parking at the JR Hospital
  • Disruption
  • Cold callers selling goods
  • Former Quarry Gate pub