Headington Headlines

Headington Headlines #235

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 5 – 11 October.

@Oxford_Framing joined twitter.

@Oxford_Brookes‘ public art project “The Rain Pavilion” was finally on full view last weekend, just in time for the rain on Monnday.

Wood Farm Health Centre in Leiden Road reopened as Wood Farm Healthy Living Centre after a complete refurbishment, although the change of branding doesn’t seem to have reached its website yet.

The full planning application for student accommodation on the corner of Latimer Road is now on the City Council’s website (ref 15/00858/FUL).

Full marks to Leaders letting agency @LeadersOxford who took advantage of the total breakdown of civil society caused by bagmageddon by giving away reusable shopping bags carrying their logo.

The Diocese of Oxford wishes to recruit a Vicar for St. Mary’s in Barton. The church has entered into a partnership with St Aldate’s in the city centre which it is hoped will benefit both churches.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Open Magdalen Wood Tree Felling
  • Stolen ‘children crossing’ banners in Quarry
  • New Recycling promotion
  • Bus drivers and London Road
  • “Longwall is coming up fast”
  • New Recycling promotion
  • Friends of Bury Knowle Park still active?
  • Cars and vans driving and parking on the pavement
I cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.

Headington Headlines #234

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 28 September – 4 October.

Local band Headington Hillbillies @H_Hillbillies new album “The Promised Land” was released on Monday. Listen/buy it here.

The flower planters outside Jacobs & Field were vandalised overnight on Monday.

Oxford University Hospitals, which includes the JR, has been granted foundation status, meaning the four hospitals will no longer be under direct control from central government.

From @HeadingtonNews:

The Headington Plan AGM was held on Friday.

@TheAmpRevival is looking for people to come on the limited body to form the legal structure to pull the Ampleforth pub in Risinghurst back into trading.

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

  • New Recycling promotion
  • Stolen ‘children crossing’ banners in Quarry
  • Looking for a new room to rent
  • Bus drivers and London Road
  • Inept driving
  • Friends of Bury Knowle Park still active?
  • Open Magdalen Wood Tree Felling
  • Neighbourhood Plan AGM
I cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.

Headington Headlines #233

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 21 – 27 September.

The Headington Plan AGM is on Friday 2 October at 7.00pm in the Green Room, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford Brookes Headington Hill campus.

The ex-BBB stores next to the sooon-to-be-ex-Post Office is reportedly going to become a butcher’s shop.

The story of the old Friar pub site on Marston Road moved into a new chapter with a planning appplication (Ref. 15/02543/FUL) to build a three-storey 30-bedroom student acommodation block (no link because the City’s website has been down over the past few days).

It was the annual Barton Bash on Saturday, opened by @AndrewSmithMP. Proceeds from the £1 entry fee will be donated to the British Heart Foundation in memory of former Barton Community vice-president Barry Holden, who passed away from heart failure in August last year. Article in The Oxford Mail.

Headington’s Live Advent Calendar – a series of 24 performances each in a different venue in the run-up to Christmas – is happening again this year. Contact them @LiveAdvent2015 or liveadvent.org.uk if you can offer a venue, a performance, or other help.

To no-one’s surprise, the promised opening of Windmill School’s new classrooms didn’t happen. At the moment it seems anyone’s guess when they will actually be ready.

A scheme offerring financial incentives to encourage more recycling of household waste has been strongly criticised on the e-democracy forum this week.

A second banner saying “Children Crossing. Headington Quarry Foundation Stage School” has disappeared, presumably stolen, from Quarry Hollow. Parents and residents are understandably upset, especially as the County refuses to install any traffic calming measures as the area is ‘low priority’. Until a serious accident, presumably.

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

  • Friar site for sale
  • New development at top of Windmill Road
  • C’mon Ruth cheer up…you’ll be back in Headington soon.
  • Crown and Thistle
  • New Recycling promotion
  • Stolen ‘children crossing’ banners in Quarry
I cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.