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Headington Headlines #174

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 28 July – 3 August.

Headington’s Londis closed down last Sunday (27 July). It now stands empty and its future is uncertain.

As one door closes another opens. The new Tesco Express opened on Tuesday morning. The store and its manager are on twitter as @Tesco6880. Also ‘Headington’ is apparently ‘Area 5‘ in Tesco-speak.

Multiple reports of a Big Pong across Headington on Monday evening attracted interest from @BBCPhilGayle and the Oxford Times. Unconfirmed explanations included muck-spreading in the Barton fields.

A van overturned on Jack Straw’s Lane on Tuesday.

The Barton Community Association is reported to be thinking of starting the process of forming a Parish Council. Still some way to go before it happens.

Not news, but a round-up of views on the Barton Park link road as developers confirm a planning application is scheduled for later in the year.

Headington School @HeadingtonSch celebrates its centenary next year and has a website dedicated to the event.

Vice-Chancellor Janet Beer is leaving @Oxford_Brookes at the end of January 2015 to take up the Vice-Chancellorship of Liverpool University.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Headington Londis
  • Satellite dish outside Tesco
  • Smoking at JR Hospital
  • Headington & Marston in the First World War
  • the night time stench
  • I see a new local rival discussion site has been set up.
I 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 #171

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 7 – 13 July.

A County Council report has recommended that the yet-to-be-built Barton Park School should be run by Cheney Academy, as will be the case for Bayard’s Hill School in Barton from the start of the next term.

Risinghurst’s very own tattoo parlour @OxfordInk (on the Roundway) is opening a second operation in Summertown.

@Stagecoach_Ox announce a new service, the S7, starting on 28 July and connecting Carterton, Shilton Park, Minster Lovell, Witney, Eynsham and Cassington with the JR and Brookes. Scroll down this page to see a little more (no timetable yet).

Chinese take-away chain Hotcha is planning to open three outlets in Oxford – Headington, Cowely [sic] Road and Summertown. Any guesses which shop they’ll take?

Doric Properties, the developers of the controversial and generally unpopular Westway scheme in Botley, used Headington Farmers’ Market to promote their proposals on facebook. Headington Action @HeadingtonA, who organise the Headington market, quickly dissociated themselves from any connection.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • New Headington bus routes
  • 800/900 buses
  • St.Clements car park no longer available
I 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 #170

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 30 June – 6 July.

The new Maggie’s centre opened at the Churchill on Tuesday.

The new development on the old cricket ground on Barton Road is to be called “The Willows”. The name was the most popular at the last Headington Ward Focus meeting.

Quarry & Risinghurst labour Councillor @laurencepbaxter is standing down as he is leaving Oxford to take up a teaching post in Prague. Expect a by-election in August or September.

A two-week hearing begins today (7 July) to decide whether the Foxwell Drive Town Green application will be granted. The decision will affect the access to and from the new Barton Park estate.

There are grants of up to £15,000 available for Headington businesses who want to promote sustainable transport by encouraging their employees to use public transport, cycling, car sharing etc. Public sector employers, charities and community groups are also included in the Travel Choices Initiative scheme.

A news story broke on Wednesday that a convicted paedophile “living in Headington” (apparently Ivy Lane) has gone on the run having failed to turn up for a court hearing. Police are asking for information.

A 20-year old man from Coleman’s Hill (near the Green Road roundabout) has been charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls in Headington in March. He has been bailed to appear before magistrates in September.

@OBSUJazzSociety entertained shoppers and passers-by outside Waitrose on Friday to mark the store’s Partnership Day.

Signs have gone up in the window of Café Corsica implying that Oxford Designer Blinds are opening there.

The JR’s car park number 2 (outside the Women’s Centre) has had a much-needed resurfacing.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

Only one active post on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Introduction
I 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.