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Headington Headlines #231

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 7 – 13 September.

Oxford City Planning Officers have used delegated powers to allow Jacobs & Field a change of use to an eat-in restaurant (A3). It has been mixed retail/restaurant (A1/A3), with the restaurant element allowed to the current owners on a personal basis, as it otherwise contravened the local plan requiring a certain proportion of retail premises in the shopping area.

Dance Inspires (above the old Trade Exchange shop) is offering free introductory pole dancing lessons during September.

The White Hart @TheWhiteHartH annnounced they’ll be doing a hog roast for every England rugby World Cup game.

The sorry tale of the unfinished new classrooms @WindmillOxford goes on as it turns out that the building won’t be useable until 19 September at the earliest. A County Council spokesperson’s implication that the delay was somehow the school staff’s fault has caused even more anger among staff and parents.

The Farmers’ Market opening times have changed – it’s still every Saturday but from now on it will be from 10:00 to 14:30.

Every now and again I like to bring you news from one of the other Headingtons – this time from the other OU too, Oklahoma University.

Only one active topic on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Offering FREE pole dance classes in September to show you how you an keep fit on the vertiical bar!
I 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 #226

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 3 – 9 August.

St Andrew’s Church tower is having some restoration work done. It will cost about £100,000 all of which has been raised locally.

The new arrangement for the Farmers’ Market being weekly on Saturdays has got off to a good start, according to the Market Manager quoted in @OxfordTimes.

Consultation on the Access to Headington transport plan closed last Friday. I’ve posted a list of links to several responses, including Headington Action, Friends of Old Headington, Oxford Civic Society and local Councillors. Three themes recur in most if not all the comments:

  • Poor public consultation;
  • Not enough information to make rational decisions;
  • Concerns about environmental impact (trees and green verges) and parking arrangements.

Starting today (Monday) for three weeks, Queen Street is closed to buses. So if you normally get your 8 or 9 from Castle Street you’ll need to go to a temporary stop in St Aldate’s instead.

The planning application (Ref: 15/01924/FUL) for the extension to the Manor Surgery has been on the City Council’s website for a few weeks. So far there’s only been one letter of objection which is about extending car parking spaces. However, the application doesn’t cover this aspect, saying “The car park improvements will be submitted under a separate application“.

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

  • £12.m transport improvements for Headington: exhibitions and consultation
  • Mobility scooters
I 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 #225

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

Plans to develop alongside C S Lewis’s old house in Holyoake Road have resurfaced, this time in the shape of two 5-bedroom houses. See Ref: 15/02096/FUL.

@BartonPark_ has been chosen as one of five experimental “healthy towns” for a trial by the NHS of ideas for encouraging people to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

With the support of Cherwell Drive residents, independent councillor Mick Haines has launched a petition against the County’s Access to Headington transport plan.

The now weekly Farmers’ Market on Saturday had live animals (not for sale, I believe).

Children will love the Headington Farmers' Market today as there are live animals in New High Street pic.twitter.com/FobRxKXfQ8

— Headington News (@HeadingtonNews) August 1, 2015

A woman was the victim of a flasher in Bury Knowle Park on Friday.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

An entrepreneur in #Headington pic.twitter.com/GNeD0oBqCe

— Nick Swarbrick ن (@nickswarb) August 2, 2015

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

  • The Headington Plan – whats next? (August 2015)
  • Noise in Quarry
I 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.