Cotuit Hall

Headington Headlines #342

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 30 October – 5 November.

Police cordoned off part of Copse Lane in Marston last weekend after reports that a teenage girl had been assaulted.

EF International’s planning application to redevelop their site at Cotuit Hall (reported in HH312) goes to the east Area Planning Committee on Wednesday this week (8 November). The officers’ recommendation is to approve the application subject to conditions. One of the conditions is for a travel plan:

The plan shall detail how pupil access to the site is to be managed, including at start/end of terms, how vehicle movements to and from the site are to be minimised, the means for implementing the plan, method of monitoring and amending the plan on an annual basis. The results of the annual monitoring exercise shall be submitted to the local planning authority in writing and the travel plan amended accordingly in light of discussions with the local planning authority.

Last week I mentioned the missing cycle parking stands at Westgate. Here’s the story.

Since then work has started to install the missing racks.

Staying with the cycling theme, here’s our very own EF language schools in their latest sponsorship venture. This is a World Tour Team so expect to see them in all the big races.

The highest-ranked football team based in OX3, @OxCityFC, who are second bottom in the National League South, pulled off a great victory against League Two’s Colchester, 56 places above them, with a 1-0 away win in the first round of the FA Cup.

Following the official opening of the Margaret Road sports pavilion last week, here’s the Oxford Mail’s article and picture gallery about it.

My favourite Headington-related tweet:

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

  • Bright white lighting
  • Beech House

Headington Headlines #312

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 3 – 9 April.

A man was hit by a coach on the London Road at Headington shops on Monday morning. He was taken to the JR with minor injuries.

There’s a new planning application (ref 17/00584/FUL) by EF International School for Cotuit Hall. The application is for

Demolition of single storey lecture hall and refectory buildings. Change of use from Student Accommodation to Residential Institution. Erection of single storey connecting buildings, along with internal reconfiguration of the retained buildings, and provision of associated car parking and cycle parking spaces, landscaping, plant, and associated works.

At first sight the plans look less intrusive than the last application which was withdrawn 4 years ago.

In preparation for the referendum, @HeadingtonPlan has published a more pictorial version of the Plan.

The candidates for the County elections and Barton & Sandhills City by-election were published. For the County Divisions in OX3 see here, and for the by-election see here.

A memorial plaque was unveiled on Saturday at the Final Turn at the entrance to the JR outside St Anthony of Padua Church to commemorate the members of the armed forces who were killed in the Afghanistan conflict.

Old Headington and some surrounding areas are having intermittent problems with power cuts. It’s been going on for a few weeks now.

Fire engines attended a small fire at the Launderette in Windmill Road on Thursday. There were no reports of any injuries.

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

  • Plans for 3,000 more homes to west of Barton Park
  • Easter Party At Townsend House – All Welcome
  • Dangerous opening
  • Marston Medical Centre
  • Headington Swap Shop needs a leader
  • Regarding my suspension from the forum

Headington Headlines #114

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 27 May – 2 June.

The Headington Festival @HeadingtonFest on Sunday was a great success, with sunshine and plenty of stalls and entertainments bringing out the crowds.

The elderly woman who was found dead in a house in The Link, Risinghurst last week died of natural causes. The man arrested on suspicion of murder has been released without charge.

There was a widely re-tweeted report about a woman in Muslim dress being spat at in Headington the week before last. I checked with the original poster @TellMamaUK and the source was a text message. They couldn’t give and I haven’t seen any further confirmation of the source or the story.

Fire and Rescure services were called to a chemical incident at Ivy Lane flats. A cleaner tried to unblock a sink with a chemical cleaner not knowing a resident had tried the same thing but with a different chemical the previous evening. The mixture gave off chlorine into the kitchen and the cleaner had to go to hospital. He was not seriously harmed.

A man was arrested after a teenage girl reported being raped in Headington on Tuesday evening the week before last (21 May). Police are appealing for witnesses or any other information.

@CafeNoirOxford‘s main course menu is now mainly pizza, although they still have a specials board.

@TheOxfordMail carried a nice memoir from the time Cotuit Hall was a children’s home.

Thornhill park-&-ride is getting a coffee stall in the waiting room.

Jack Straw’s Lane is fully open again after being re-surfaced as a cycle-friendly road. Despite the misleading – well, let’s be honest, wrong – headline in The Oxford Mail the road is still open to motor vehicles but the hope is that cars will drive more slowly and cyclists will feel safer.

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

  • Plans for resurfacing of London Road between Bury Knowle and Green Road roundabout
  • missing cat: Ouseley Close, Marston
  • Missing Monkey
  • not know Morris dancing took place in headington in May
  • Headington now has a new neighbourhood watch scheme.
  • Shop at end of Kennett Road
  • Local historians what do you know about the history of Sandhills?
  • Headington Festival and Sports Day 2013
  • Coffee kiosk opening at Thornhill Park and Ride
  • UK Energy Policy Day at Oxford University
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.