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Headington Headlines #27

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Here is my round-up of local news for the week 22 – 28 August —

Three letters appeared in @TheOxfordMail on Wednesday about Headington car park: Jill Cummings | Stella Welford | @RuthWilk

As well as concern over @UniofOxford‘s Old Road Campus development plans local residents are worried about the future of the adjoining Park Hospital site.

The New Barton Pavilion opened on Sunday. Councillor @MarkLygo tweeted that the opening was a great success.

Barton Leisure Centre has been given two funding awards to develop a new Barton Community Table Tennis Club. The awards, totalling £3665, allow the centre to buy equipment and train members of staff for national table tennis coaching qualifications.

Elderly residents in a Wood Farm block were stranded as the lift was out of service for ten days (maybe more).

Roast hog, zebra burger, oysters, crab, botanical chocolate and much else besides were all on offer at the Foodies’ Festival in South Park this weekend.

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

  • Café Bonjour – Enforcement Action
  • Police patrols to tackle anti-social behaviour by language students in Headington Hill park
  • borrow/lend/lease goods

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 #26

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Here is my round-up of local news for the week 15 – 21 August —

A freedom of information enquiry reported on the H&M e-dem forum has revealed that the owners of Café Bonjour have been invited to submit a new planning application for café/restaurant use after the limits on the proportion of such premises in Headington were waived for Jacobs & Field.

At a meeting in Barton on Monday an action group was set up to fight plans to fill in Woodeaton Quarry.
In unrelated news, about 75 people have signed a petition asking the County Council to remove the speed bumps on Bayswater Road, and it was announced that the new Barton Pavilion will officially open on 28 August.

The second Headington Ward focus meeting, organized by ward councillors David Rundle and Ruth Wilkinson (@RuthWilk), was held in the Music Centre at Headington School on Tuesday. Notes of the meeting are on David and Ruth’s blog.

Congratulations to Headington A (Osler Road), champions of Oxford & District Bowls League for 2nd successive year.

The forces repatriation tribute outside the church of St Anthony of Padua in Headley Way was briefly covered in an ITV programme “Farewell Wootton Bassett” on Thursday evening.

Delia Sinclair, Labour City Councillor for Quarry & Risinghurst, was reprimanded by the Standards Committee for failing to declare a ‘prejudicial interest’ in a planning application that came before a Committee of which she was a member.

@TVP_Oxford appealed for witnesses to a suspected arson (bin fire) in Westlands Drive last Thursday.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

A quiet week on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum – only three active topics:

  • Subway under Green road roundabout
  • Dogs and Smoking in the childrens play area
  • Cafe Bonjour – Enforcement Action

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 #25

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Some of my earlier posts have gone out of sequence. Sorry for any confusion while I try to fix things.

Meanwhile, here is my round-up of local news for the week 8 – 14 August —

In one sense it’s been a quiet week for Headington news. In another sense, Headington had more twitter mentions in two days than in a normal year. Something to do with rioting, it seems. Anyway, while false rumours of trouble in Oxford swirled and raged around the internet the real-life city stayed fairly quiet.

Police were called to reports of an arson attack on Monday night at McDonald’s in London Road, Headington shortly after midnight. Three people have been arrested. Police were also called to a car fire in Barton Road, Barton after a black VW Polo was set alight.

Prompted by the actual and threatened public disorder Thames Valley Police (@ThamesVP) split out a series of local twitter accounts. Oxford City police started tweeting as @TVP_Oxford and joined a number of other local tweeters in trying to calm nerves and sort out truth from rumour.

Other newcomers to twitter were The Masons Arms in Headington Quarry @TheMasonsArmsHQ and the Manor Surgery @ManorSurgery

The Headington shark’s owner @Bill_Heine celebrated its 25th anniversary on 9 August with a street party. Local dignitaries mingled with locals to honour the occasion. The story of the shark. Pictures from the party. And my own picture:

@sharksandlasers and a website “The Dorsal Fin” provided more unexpected coverage of the event.

The official opening of Bury Knowle Park play area will be in a month’s time, according to the Oxford Mail.

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

  • potential rioting and advised closing
  • Old Road campus application called in
  • Dogs and Smoking in the childrens play area.
  • Subway under Green road roundabout

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.