Barton

City council elections: 3 May 2012 – Wards in OX3

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Who’s on twitter?

The official list of candidates standing in the local elections to Oxford City Council was published on 4 April. The elections take place on Thursday 3 May. @HeadingtonNews has produced a list of the candidates standing in the six wards which fall within the Headington – Marston – Barton area, and I am grateful for the code from that page which has saved me a fair amount of typing!

My own list is slightly different. I shall be following the campaign on twitter as well as other channels and I thought it would be interesting to see how many of the candidates are themselves tweeters. I already had a dozen or so local councillors and candidates on my oxpolitics list, but starting with the OX3 wards I have searched and found more. Some, I have to say, are not very active – which says nothing at all about their merits as potential councillors. All wards have at least one candidate with a twitter account but the sole one in Quarry & Risinghurst is at present inactive.

So if you want to engage with your local candidates or just follow the campaign, here’s who to follow. I’ll try to make a complete list for the whole of Oxford but I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to do it. Meanwhile if you find any errors or omissions please let me know.

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Current Councillor standing for re-election
Current Councillor continuing to serve, not due for re-election
Current Councillor standing down, not seeking re-election
Name Party twitter Notes

BARTON & SANDHILLS
Alexander Michael CIBULSKIS Liberal Democrat
Graham Edwin LOVELOCK Conservative
Mike ROWLEY Labour & Co-operative Party @redmikerowley Protected account
Mary-Jane SAREVA Green @MarySareva Inactive account
Van COULTER Labour

CHURCHILL
Siddo DEVA Conservative
Julian FAULTLESS Green
Mark Robert LYGO Labour @MarkLygo
Ruth Margaret RUNDLE Liberal Democrat @Ruthr1978 Protected account
Joe McMANNERS Labour @joemcmanners

HEADINGTON
Mark BHAGWANDIN Conservative @markb_gt Occasional blogger
Jane DARKE Labour
Richard John HOWARTH Green
Ruth Elaine WILKINSON Liberal Democrat @RuthWilk Blog & local info
David RUNDLE Liberal Democrat @DavidRundle

HEADINGTON HILL & NORTHWAY

Sietske BOELES Green
Roy DARKE Labour
Nicholas Oliver FELL UK Independence Party
Thomas Anthony KELLEY Conservative
Stephen TALL Liberal Democrat @StephenTall Website
Mohammed ALTAF-KHAN Liberal Democrat @maltafkhan

MARSTON

Sam Anthony FOWKES Liberal Democrat @SamFowkes1
Mick HAINES Independent
Duncan Valentine HATFIELD Conservative
Alistair David Pryce MORRIS Green
Louise UPTON Labour
Mary CLARKSON Labour
Beverley HAZELL Labour

QUARRY & RISINGHURST
Laurence BAXTER Labour
Julia Margaret GASPER UK Independence Party
Raymond Leslie HITCHINS Green
Allen MILLS Conservative
Roz SMITH Liberal Democrat @RoziRogers Inactive account
Dee SINCLAIR Labour

Headington Headlines #49

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 6 – 12 February —

New timetables for bus routes 8 and 9 were announced, with a start date of 19 February. It’s claimed they allow more time for buses to get onto the Green Road roundabout in the mornings, and that they will schedule more buses on the Barton (8) route.

Two local schools are on the list of 10 Oxfordshire primaries to be converted to academy status under a government schools improvement policy. They are St Nicholas Primary School, Raymund Road, Old Marston and Bayards Hill Primary School, Waynflete Road, Barton. I blogged about an astonishing interview about the proposals with the County’s Cabinet Member for Scools Improvement, Melinda Tilley, and there’s a comment on the blog in support of St Nicholas’ School.

Consultation on two big Council planning documents opened this week: the Sites and Housing Development Plan Document (SHDPD) and the Barton Area Action Plan (BAAP). The documents can be downloaded here (SHDPD) and here (BAAP). You are constrained to comment in the format required by the Council. I have extracted the OX3 sites in the SHDPD into a handy annotated map to make it easy to see what the document has to say about them(*). I hope to write more on the Barton plans over the next few weeks.

Local Councillor @RuthWilk and Highfield Residents’ Associations’ Patrick Coulter met County officers at a site meeting to discuss the Lime Walk/All Saints’ Road junction and other road works in the area. Ruth’s report is here.

A 15-year old girl was sexually assaulted in Quarry Road on Monday. The police are appealing for witnesses and information.

The Masons Arms (@The MasonsArmsHQ) is looking for evening and weekend bar staff. No experience required.

Lazy Gamer, @LazyGamerUK, a new computer games and comics shop is due to open on London Road (opposite Domino’s Pizza) on Friday 17th. Their website is still under construction.

This map shows the location of some of the places mentioned in this report.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

(*)The extracts from the SHDPD in my annotated map are taken from the version that went to the full Council in December. I haven’t checked to see if there are any material changes.

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

  • New Lime Walk and All Saints junction “improvements”
  • London Road – closure of cycle lane
  • Leak/blocked drain at St Andrews Road/ Dunstan Road junction

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.

Headington Headlines #42

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It was a very quiet week for news in Headington and surrounding areas and what little I found mostly related to planning. But anyway, here’s my round-up for 12 – 18 December —

Rosemary Restaurant got a scathing review on the e-democracy forum (scroll to the end of the page). The forum also carried an extended debate over the absence of Sainsbury’s and Tesco from Headington and the merits of internet shopping, intermingled with reaction to Costa’s application to open a coffee shop in the old Cartridge World. The required change of use will go before the Area Planning Committee.

In other planning matters, both an application for a smoking shelter at The Six Bells and plans for 29 Old High Street were refused.

More significantly, two major planning documents go to the City Council today (Monday) – the Barton Area Action Plan which sets out the framework for the Barton East development, and the Housing Policy and Sites book with the Headington car park not preferred for residential development. Neither document includes the Ruskin Fields development favoured by Ruskin College. The Council will debate, possibly amend, and approve versions of these before they come back for further consultation in the New Year. Meanwhile Headington Ward councillors David Rundle and Ruth Wilkinson (@RuthWilk) will report back at their Ward Focus meeting at the Baptist Church on Old High Street at 6pm on Tuesday.

Not one but TWO Headington-related tweets this week, both on the subject of Costa:

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

  • No Sainsburys and No Tescos?
  • Planners holding the line
  • West Barton plan likely to go ahead?
  • Library

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.