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Headington Headlines #351

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 1 – 7 January.

Thieves broke into Headington Co-op at about 4.15am on Wednesday morning and stole cigarettes. The police were still there at mid-day but removed the cordon soon after. They are appealing for witnesses.

Police outside the Co-op at 12.00
Police outside the Co-op at 12.00

If you have finished with your real Christmas tree, here’s how and where you can recycle it. Please don’t just dump it!

Independent Marston Councillor Mick Haines has left it rather late to try to rally support for his objections to the Access to Headington work which starts in a couple of weeks.

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

    • Reply re Barton park
    • Barton Park Prices

Headington Headlines #348

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 11 – 17 December.

The butcher’s and grocer’s shop in the place next to Posh Fish that used to be a pet shop opened on Monday. It sells South Asian food and halal meat.

Bollards have been placed next to the car park at the bottom of Headington Hill Park to prevent selfish parking on the grass beyond the logs.

before and after the bollards

Intruders broke into a house in Sandhills on the afternooon of 5 December but ran off after one of the residents, a man in his 80s, fought them off with a chair. The three intruders escaped by car.

It’s no surprise to report that OX3’s Labour MP @AnnelieseDodds and OxWAb’s LibDem MP @LaylaMoran both voted against the government in Wednesday’s ‘take back control’ Brexit vote.

After the exhibition of the latest Access to Headington plans, here’s a summary of what’s going to happen on Headley Way and Cherwell Drive starting in January.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Beech Houses
  • Lorry Sat nav
  • Osler Road/St Andrews
  • New Chinese Language Courses for January 2018
  • Are you a car club user in Oxford? The Transport Studies Unit would love to talk to you

Access to Headington – Headley Way latest

TonyOX3

At the exhibition of the Headley Way Access to Headington plans on Thursday it was confirmed that work will start at the bottom of the hill on Monday 22 January. This part will last three weeks while they take out the roundabouts. Traffic lights will control the traffic.

Immediately after, on 19 February, work will start at the JR entrance. This will also last three weeks with traffic light control. Once these two jobs are finished, which should be by Sunday 11 March, work will switch to the main parts of the road. Work will be done in a similar way to The Slade with narrow lanes and two-way working most of the time.

During the first six weeks there is bound to be bad congestion. There has already been publicity of the JR advising people to allow two hours to reach the hospital and find a parking space, and the bus companies have issued similar warnings about delays to services using Headley Way. After six weeks things should get easier. The work is scheduled to take nine months, which brings it to some time in October.