Headington Headlines #297

TonyOX3

A short – and quiet – week this week. I’m taking Christmas off so here’s your round-up of local news for 19 – 23 December. The next Headington Headlines will be on New Year’s Eve. A Merry Christmas to everyone!

The Energy Project pipelaying in Latimer Road and All Saints/Lime Walk has finished in time for the Christmas break. The contractors will be starting again on 3 January …

… and work on the Access to Headington project at the Gipsy Lane/Old Road/Warneford Lane/Roosevelt Drive junction is suspended until 3 January, but the four-way traffic lights will stay in place.

The headington.org.uk website has a useful list of the Christmas and New Year opening times of Headington’s supermarkets.

Fancy a local job where you get out, meet people and manage your own time? There’s a vacancy for a Meter Reader in Headington, ca. £18k pa.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

There were no active posts on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week.

Headington Headlines #296

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 12 – 18 December.

The Hospitals Trust has published the schedule of heatpipe roadworks for Lime Walk covering the period 3 January to the end of February. The contractors didn’t quite meet their first target though – both sets of roadworks have over-run into this week, but we’re assured all will be finished by next Friday, probably before. Then it all starts again in the New Year.

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.

A driver captured this dashcam footage of a van driving the wrong way on the A40 dual carriageway. The video starts at the Thornhill P&R lights, heading east and ending at the layby before the Forest Hill turn.

Planning approval has been given for Nielsen House to be converted to “30 x 1-bed flats and 63 x 2-bed flats”.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Travellers update
  • Internet Connection in Headington
  • Nielsen House