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Headington Headlines #299

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 1 – 8 January.

@OUHEstates have confirmed that the final reinstatement of the roads, including remaking the speed humps, will be done at the end of all the work in agreement with the County Highways Department.

In the wake of the withdrawal of the H2 local bus service last year Risinghurst & Sandhills Parish Council is asking whether people in that area would use a possible new bus service.

In what looks like a good move for both clubs, Oxford United @OUFCOfficial and Oxford City FC have signed a deal for OUFC to share City’s ground in Marston for training. The arrangement needs the blessing of the City Council.

Several pupils were sent home from Cheney School at the start of term for wearing ‘inappropriate uniform’ – trousers that were ‘too short’. Parents were upset that the children were sent home without supervision and without their parents being told.

@WindmillOxford school couldn’t open after the holidays on Wednesday as planned because the heating boiler had broken down. It was finally fixed on Friday and the school opens today (Monday).

A young man was threatening to jump off the Old Road bridge over the Eastern by-pass on Saturday. Police managed to talk him away and to safety. @HeadingtonNews was there.

You can recycle your natural Christmas trees at three Council sites in Headington – Bury Knowle Park, South Park and Margaret Road recreation ground.

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

  • Energy Pipe – 2017 works
  • Internet Connection in Headington

Headington Headlines #269

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 30 May – 5 June.

Vital Energi gave a preview of their latest and hopefully final plans for the heatpipe roadworks before they submit the planning application this week. Read my write-up here.

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.

Queen Street in the city centre is closed to all motor vehicles from today. Some bus routes are affected – see where to get on and off your Headington bus here. The same link has details of the @Stagecoach_Ox services affected by the cuts in the County Council’s subsidies. The 17A & 17C services will no longer run after 21 July and there are timetable changes to the 14 and 14A routes.

The papers for the County’s meeting to decide on Access to Headington have been published, with the officers’ recommendation to accept the latest version retaining some parking on Windmill Road and Headley Way. My thoughts – and links to the papers – here.

Investigators were called to @WindmillOxford Primary School in Margaret Road on Tuesday after reports of a possible gas leak. Children were not in schoool as it was half term.

Demolition of the houses on the corner of Latimer Road started on Tuesday, to make way for the new student block.

The traffic lights at the Headington roundabout failed on Wednesday morning. Again.

Richards Medical Centre at 12 Old High Street will close after the retirement of Dr Peter Saunders in September (via @HeadingtonNews).

@HeadingtonNews also reported that Nielsen’s have sold their site on the London Road to a property developer and will move to the Oxford Business Park by early 2018.

Congratuations to @HeadingtonSch whose rowing team became national schools girls’ eights champions for the eighth successive year.

A planning application (ref: 16/01267/FUL) has been submitted on behalf of @thespiritoftoad to build an ‘artisan distillery incorporating visitor centre, tasting room, storage barn and café/restaurant’ on the Council Depot on Cheney Lane, at the top of South Park. Here’s the Oxford Mail’s take on the story.

The play area at the bottom of Sandfield Road is one of three sites trialling a voluntary no-smoking policy in the enclosed play area. Anyone familiar with the park will know that smokers escaping the JR West Wing tend to go just inside the gate into the park near the bus stop. Local councillors want to know what you think about the no-smoking idea.

It’s been a busy weekend. Oxford Brookes’ open day, the Farmers’ Market and a sunny, well-attended @HeadingtonFest all happening over the two days.

But less happily, there was a break-in in Wharton Road on Sunday and three bikes were stolen from a garden shed.

My favourite OX3-related tweet of the week:

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

  • AC Nielsen building and A40 surveying work
  • Possible distillery and visitor centre at Headington end of Cheney Lane
  • Closure of Parking Shop
  • Energy pipe

Headington Headlines #264

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 25 April – 1 May.

The planning application for a temporary car park in the JR grounds for local people affected by heatpipe works has been withdrawn. The Hospital Trust says it will be resubmitted as part of the new planning application that is being prepared for the whole route of the pipe.

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.

Bar Meze has closed with the shop premises being repossessed by the landlord.

NatWest Bank has also been closed this last week, but it will reopen tomorrow (3 May).

In contrast, our newest shop has opened. Card Factory is where Johnson’s dry cleaners used to be.

Card Factory
Card Factory

Revised plans for Windmill Road and Headley Way have been put out for consultation by the County Council as part of the Access to Headington Project. Read the County’s statement and see the revised plans here.

Oxford University will start a “Science Transit Shuttle” bus service between South Parks Road, Old Road Campus and Harwell on 18 July. In earlier discussions the University was willing to consider making the service available to the general public. This will not happen immediately but they say “the long-term intention is to explore options for more flexible routing and to open the service to the public”.

As pressure mounts on Southern Health over multiple failings of care including the death of Connor Sparrowhawk at Slade House, the trust’s chairman and a governor have resigned.

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

  • Cycle path ‘repairs’
  • Tower block refurbishment
  • Access to Headington scheme – decisions deferred