Headington Headlines #116

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 10 – 16 June.

Morrisons has submitted a planning application for a new shop front at ex-Blockbusters.

As expected, the East Area Planning Committee rejected Martin Young’s latest planning application for 29 Old High Street. Also not unexpected, Mr young is going to appeal.

A blue plaque commemorating Oliver Cromwell signing the Treaty for the surrender of Oxford in 1646 was unveiled at Cromwell House, Old Marston, on Sunday.

An outline planning application for the Barton West development (Ref: 13/01383/OUT) has been submitted to the Council. There are 66 documents to read on the website so let’s hope there will be some more accessible way for the public to understand the proposals.

Signs have gone up along the ‘North-east Quiet Route‘ from Headington roundabout to the start of the Cherwell meadows in Marston.

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

  • Crown and Thistle
  • Plans for resurfacing of London Road between Bury Knowle and Green Road roundabout
  • Noise in Quarry
  • Redevelopment of Northway
  • Black Boy pub
  • Headington bike hire scheme
  • Interesting side effect of the road works at Wheatley
  • Planning changes – how will they impact on our shops?
  • Headington cycling signs
I try to 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 #115

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 3 – 9 June.

It was Risinghurst and Sandhills’ turn to have community fun yesterday (Sunday) – the Community Fete and Picnic, opened by Lord Mayor @dee_sinclair.

A burst water main in Borrowmead Road, Northway, left 37 properties without water for a time on Tuesday.

EF language school @EFOxford has withdrawn its planning application to redevelop Cotuit Hall in Pullen’s Lane as an International Academy. They say this is after local residents objected, and they intend to engage with the community before submitting revised plans later this year. I’ve added this news to my Cotuit Hall timeline on Storify.

Morrison’s have applied for an alcohol licence for the old Blockbuster shop.

The outline planning application (ref 13/01383/OUT) for the West Barton development has been submitted and is on the City Council’s website.

The East Area Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday approved the two Haboakus developments in Northway, but drainage and sewerage issues have to be sorted out before development starts. The Committee rejected the third application (in Barns Road, Cowley) because of inadequate of parking provision.

Londis now has a 24-hour alcohol licence.

Martin Young’s latest planning application looks like being turned down at the next Planning Committee meeting, according to The Oxford Mail.

Some Xbox games and cash were stolen in a break-in in Blackthorn Close on Thursday.

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

  • How does the Jack Straw’s Lane “bicycle street” work?
  • Headington Festival and Sports Day 2013
  • Plans for the new Barton estate now available
  • Noise in Quarry
  • Crown and Thistle
I try to 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 #114

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 27 May – 2 June.

The Headington Festival @HeadingtonFest on Sunday was a great success, with sunshine and plenty of stalls and entertainments bringing out the crowds.

The elderly woman who was found dead in a house in The Link, Risinghurst last week died of natural causes. The man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released without charge.

There was a widely re-tweeted report about a woman in Muslim dress being spat at in Headington the week before last. I checked with the original poster @TellMamaUK and the source was a text message. They couldn’t give and I haven’t seen any further confirmation of the source or the story.

Fire and Rescure services were called to a chemical incident at Ivy Lane flats. A cleaner tried to unblock a sink with a chemical cleaner not knowing a resident had tried the same thing but with a different chemical the previous evening. The mixture gave off chlorine into the kitchen and the cleaner had to go to hospital. He was not seriously harmed.

A man was arrested after a teenage girl reported being raped in Headington on Tuesday evening the week before last (21 May). Police are appealing for witnesses or any other information.

@CafeNoirOxford‘s main course menu is now mainly pizza, although they still have a specials board.

@TheOxfordMail carried a nice memoir from the time Cotuit Hall was a children’s home.

Thornhill park-&-ride is getting a coffee stall in the waiting room.

Jack Straw’s Lane is fully open again after being re-surfaced as a cycle-friendly road. Despite the misleading – well, let’s be honest, wrong – headline in The Oxford Mail the road is still open to motor vehicles but the hope is that cars will drive more slowly and cyclists will feel safer.

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

  • Plans for resurfacing of London Road between Bury Knowle and Green Road roundabout
  • missing cat: Ouseley Close, Marston
  • Missing Monkey
  • not know Morris dancing took place in headington in May
  • Headington now has a new neighbourhood watch scheme.
  • Shop at end of Kennett Road
  • Local historians what do you know about the history of Sandhills?
  • Headington Festival and Sports Day 2013
  • Coffee kiosk opening at Thornhill Park and Ride
  • UK Energy Policy Day at Oxford University
I try to 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.