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Headington Headlines #310

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 20 – 26 March.

The heatpipe roadworks in Headington’s residential streets have finished and all closures and diversions have been lifted*. Work continues on Churchill Drive, affecting the 700 and 900 bus routes. Stagecoach has published this schedule of diversions.

*Correction – apparently not. Work still happening in All Saints Road!

The ‘missing link’ is the London Road crossing, of which I gave details a month ago. Vital Energi has confirmed that they will be working on this 7 days a week. Weekend working hours will be 0900 – 1600 on Saturdays and 1000 – 1600 on Sundays. The work starts on 3 April and is scheduled to run until 28 April.

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.

As reported last week, plans for the next roadworks were presented on Thursday: the next phase of Access to Headington will be on The Slade and last for about six months. The latest drawings downloaded from the County’s website are here

A man was stabbed in Barton Road on Tuesday. Three men were arrested; two were later released without charge.

The largest piece of public art in Oxford so far was installed on the Old Road Campus. It is by sculptor Julian Wild and is titled “Origin”.

Origin
Origin
Photo: Julian Wild

Sadly the other recent public artwork, the Narnia carvings in Bury Knowle Park, were trashed by vandals. The row of small figures alongside Aslan was badly damaged (Mr Tumnus lost his head) and some trees and plants were also targeted.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week is this video of the famous can-can legs being installed at the old (Not The) Moulin Rouge in New High Street:

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

  • Hospital Parking
  • Cost of petrol and diesel in Oxford

Headington Headlines #301

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 16 – 22 January.

@HistoricEngland‘s campaign to list all England’s WW1 war memorials continues, with both Old Marston and New Marston memorials being given grade II listed status.

Twitchers have been excited by sightings of waxwings in and around Headington & Marston.

Headington cemetery appeared very briefly as a location in Sunday’s episode of Endeavour.

Headington Hill bridge joined in the “Bridges not Walls” day of action on Friday.

The Very Reverend Bob Jeffery, Vicar of St Andrew’s in Old Headington from 1971 to 1978, has died aged 81.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week – chainsaw artist Matt Cave has created Aslan from a tree stump in Bury Knowle Park:

There’s another pictureof Aslan, this time by @rossmackenzie here on instagram.

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

  • Hedge vandalism

Headington Headlines #268

TonyOX3

It’s been a remarkably quiet week for news in Headington but here’s your weekly round-up for 23 – 29 May.

@HeadingtonNews spotted this City Council work schedule of tree work that will be done in Bury Knowle Park over the summer. There’s a lot!

The Stansfeld Centre held a well-attended open day on Wednesday.

There will be a debate in Parliament about Southern Health Trust’s failings on 8 June.

The Common People Festival came to South Park over the weekend and my twitter timeline seems to rate it a success. I couldn’t hear it at home in OX3 Towers.

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