1 Pullen’s Lane care home timeline

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Here is a brief history of the proposals to build a care home on the site of 1 Pullen’s Lane. Click here for a location map (the site boundaries are approximate).

March 2014 – Developers Carebase submit a planning application for a 55-bed care home at 1 Pullen’s Lane.

August 2014 – Planning permission refused. East Area Planning Committee said it did not fit with the area’s “rural tranquility”.

Jan 2016 – Frontier Estates submit a new planning application also for a 55-bed care home on the same site.

May 2016 – Frontier withdraw their application.

Sept 2016 – Frontier announce revised plans will submitted to Oxford Design Review Panel before submitting a formal planning application before the end of the year.

April 2018 – Frontier’s planning application validated and published on Oxford City Council website on 30 Apr 2018, reference 18/00870/FUL.

November 2018 – The application was refused by the East Area Planning Committee.

Headington Headlines #368

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Your weekly round-up of local news for 30 April – 6 May.

The City Council elections were held on 3 May. The results for the six wards in OX3 are here, with a brief commentary.

One Labour ex-Councillor at least knew where to place the blame for losing Quarry & Risinghurst to the LibDems.

There was also an election for seats on Old Marston Parish Council. Thirteen candidates stood for twelve vacancies; the unlucky number thirteen was Barrie Lewis-Canham.

Another significant stage in the development of Barton Park; in the past week or two the first residents have moved into the Mosaics development. I saw it first in this video and Mosaics have confirmed it is indeed true.

Phoney parking notices have been spotted (and reported) in Sandhills.

@theSpiritofToad, the artisan distillery in South Park, has been nominated in the LEP New Business category in the Oxfordshire Business Awards. The winners will be announced at a black tie dinner at Brookes on 15 June.

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

  • Beech House

City Elections – May 2018 results in OX3

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Here are the results of the elections to the Wards in OX3 in the City Council elections held on 3 May 2018. Click the tables to see them in full size. Overall there was little change apart from the LibDem’s Roz Smith winning Quarry & Risinghurst from Labour’s Dee Sinclair.

The full results for the City are on the City Council’s website.

No UKIP this year; their 2016 vote seems to have gone mostly, and unsurprisingly, to the Conservatives, allowing Tim Patmore to squeeze perennial Independent candidate Chaka Artwell into third place.

Echoing results elsewhere in the City the Conservatives and LibDems made small gains in their share of the vote at the expense of the Greens, but the result in this Labour stronghold was never in doubt.

Talking of strongholds, no surprise that Altaf-Khan was re-elected for the LibDems. Both he and Labour’s Simon Ottino increased their share of the vote slightly at the expense of the paper candidates standing for the Conservatives and Greens.

Joe McManners returns to the Council in this safe Labour seat after standing down from Churchill Ward in 2013. In a significant swing the Conservative share of the vote dropped from 30.1% in 2016 to only 18.5% this year, pushing them down to third place. The LibDems were the gainers, up from 10.7% in 2016 to 21.8% and second place this time round.

The 2016 election in Marston was a curious one, with two Independents standing and one of them (Mick Haines) sweeping the board with close to 50% of the vote to push Labour into second place with 35%. In this year’s more conventional roster Mary Clarkson was re-elected for Labour with a very similar share of the vote to when she last stood in 2014.

We are used to Quarry & Risinghurst being the closest run of the local wards. A 6% swing to the LibDems was just enough to see Roz Smith elected and Dee Sinclair (Lab) ousted. Whether the increased LibDem vote here and in Headington Hill & Northway was anything to do with Brexit is anyone’s guess. We’d need to know why it affected these two wards and apparently not the others.