Headington Headlines #107

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 8 – 14 April.

Oxford Furniture Warehouse opened on the London Road on Monday and have joined twitter as @OxFurniture. They’ve moved from the Abingdon Road.

A man’s gold ring was lost in Lime Walk last Sunday (7 April) – appeal for information/return.

The Headington Festival 2013 website has gone live – go there to book a place for your stall. The festival’s on Sunday 2 June from 1 – 5 pm. The twitter account is @HeadingtonFest.

You can watch a 2-minute time-lapse video of the new @Oxford_Brookes building going up.

A fight broke out after a football match last Saturday week (6 April) at Barton Recreation Ground. One man suffered a broken nose. Three men were arrested and bailed.

The Londis store (run by @sundersandher) has applied for a 24hr, seven days a week alcohol licence. You can comment here.

The East Area Planning Committee meets on Tuesday this week. On the agenda are

  • Bury Knowle Depot — recommendation to support in principle but defer pending drawing up a legal agreement;
  • Land behind 73 – 81 Lime Walk — recommendation to approve subject to conditions;
  • 29 Old High Street — recommendation to approve subject to conditions;
  • Noted for a future meeting, no action at this time: Haboakus Northway development; Cotuit Hall; Barton Road cricket ground; 255 Marston Road (change from plumbers merchant to taxi hire office).

Meanwhile the non-public public art circular seat (Ref 13/00284/VAR) the @EFOxford language school wanted to put outside their main entrance but inside their boundary fence was rejected by the City Council.

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

  • Another recommendation: driving instructor?
  • A Neighbourhood Plan for Headington
  • Gold Ring lost Headington
  • Barton Road Cricket Ground
  • Competent telephone engineer
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.

Candidates on twitter

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Here is the list of all the candidates I can find standing in the County Council elections in the Oxford City divisions who have twitter accounts. I have classified their use of twitter as:

  • active – 5+ tweets since 1 April 2013
  • occasional – 5+ tweets since 1 January 2013
  • dormant – <5 tweets since 1 Jan, 5+ since 1 April 2012
  • unused – less than any of the above
  • locked – locked account, no data
  • unconfirmed – I have not confirmed this account is the candidate
Name Party Division twitter Status
Mary-Jane SAREVA Green Barton, Sandhills & Risinghurst @MarySareva unused
Duncan HATFIELD Con Headington & Quarry @Old_Marston unused
Delia SINCLAIR Lab Headington & Quarry @delia_sinclair occasional
Roz SMITH LibDem Headington & Quarry @RosalindRogers unused
Tim BEARDER LibDem Iffley Fields & St Mary’s @timbearder occasional
George HARNETT Con Jericho & Osney @GWHarnett unused
Alasdair MURRAY LibDem Leys @alasdairjmurray unused
Val SMITH Lab Leys @valsmithoxford locked
Mark BHAGWANDIN Con Marston & Northway @markb_gt dormant
Mark LYGO Lab Marston & Northway @MarkLygo active
Tim PATMORE Con Rose Hill & Littlemore @Tim_Patmore active
Stuart O’REILLY UKIP St Clement’s & Cowley Marsh @stuartoreilly active
John HOWSON LibDem St Margaret’s @John4PCC dormant
Vernon PORTER Con St Margaret’s @oxVP unused
Sam COATES Green University Parks @samcoatescymru active
Jane MACTAGGART LibDem University Parks @JaneMactaggartL unconfirmed
Joe OTTAWAY Lab University Parks @JoeOttaway active
Richard TREFFLER Con University Parks @Rtreffler active
Dick WOLFF Green Wolvercote & Summertown @greenwolff active

Of course candidates are not required to have twitter accounts or to use them if they do. For a full list of all the candidates standing in the Oxford City divisions see the official list.

Headington Headlines #106

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 1 – 7 April.

In a joke about a joke the @OxfordTimes featured the Headington shark on April Fools’ day. They managed to take a swipe or two at a few local celebrities as well.

New municipal financial year, new parking charges. It’s now £1.30 for a minimum 2hr stay in the car park behind Waitrose (up by 10p).

The @HeadingtonPlan Steering Group met for the first time on Wednesday.

The planning application (ref. 13/00631/FUL) to build “30 residential units (8 x 4 bed houses, 17 x 3 bed houses, 2 x 2 bed flats and 3 x1 bed flats) together with access road, 51 car parking spaces, 60 cycle parking spaces, public open space and landscaping” on the Barton Road cricket ground is open for public comment.

There’s also a planning application (ref 13/00769/FUL) to replace the public toilets at the bottom of Headley Way with two 1-bedroom semis.

There’s talk about residents in Lime Walk/Highfield getting radar speed guns in a police-backed scheme to reduce speeding in residential areas.

The @ButchersArmsOxf now has free wifi and the Headington Festival @HFandSD2013 joined twitter.

Nominations closed for the County Council elections and the two City Council by-elections on 2 May. All the local candidates and links to the others are below.

I posted a short description and pictures of Headington’s newest street, Blackburn Close.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

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

  • Barton Road Cricket Ground
  • Bus Users’ Forum | Thu 4th Apr | Town Hall | 18:30
  • Local elections, May 2013
  • Headley Way public conveniences
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.