Here is my round-up of local news for the week 14 – 20 November —

Agents Breckon & Breckon officially opened their new Headington lettings office and are on twitter as @Breckonlettings.

Private healthcare provider Nuffield Health is taking over the BMI Oxford Clinic, moving from Windmill Rd to Manor Hospital.

The Big Bang Pop-up Saucissonerie at Brookes’ Restaurant lived up to its description and closed after a brief lifespan of only two weeks.

A suggestion to relieve traffic congestion in Headley Way by building a £33m tunnel connecting the JR Hospital (and possibly Ruskin Fields) to the Highfield area of Headington was dismissed as impractical by, well, almost everybody.

The Lime Walk/All Saints Road junction is closed until 25 November.

There was a robbery at the Stan James betting shop on the Roundway on Tuesday evening. @TVP_Oxford are appealing for witnesses.

Two people were arrested after a stabbing at a property in Valentia Road on Friday.

Barton-based @EshaMessyJam who runs the MessyJam dance school in Blackbird Leys with young people from Blackbird Leys and Barton is hoping to raise £5000 so the dancers can take part in an international dance competition in France next year.

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

• Old Road Campus and Park Hospital
• Thornhill Park and Ride….again
• Mac & McKay Flowershop
• Ruskin Fields

Here is my round-up of local news for the week 12 – 18 September —

In a week rather dominated by planning matters, permission for the Manor Ground development of 27 affordable housing units was finally given on Wednesday.

The petition against development of the Headington car park now has over 3400 signatures. Not strictly in the OX3 area, the planning application for development of the St Clement’s car park was rejected. It might still be ‘called in’ for review though.

@TheOxfordMail had another article on the potential sale Warneford Meadow.

The owner of the derelict 29 Old High Street lost his case on appeal. He has to pay a total of £3600 costs and has 6 months to ‘tidy up’ the property. On the brighter side, Business Headington and Partners were awarded Bronze in the Best Small Commercial Display category of Oxford in Bloom.

Dunstan Road speed bumps are less bumpy than they were before the recent road repairs. Inevitably some residents are unhappy. Your LibDem Councillors would like to hear your views. My own road-test report is on the e-dem forum.

@RuthWilk and David Rundle followed up a query from their Headington Focus meeting and as a result the Headington PCSOs will patrol singly until 9:00pm, giving them higher visibility on the streets.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

Serendipitous fans of Oklahoma University’s Headington Hall can watch it being built on this live webcam. I think we should go for a twinning.

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum

this week:

• Oxford Half Marathon – September 25th
• PCSO patrol patterns
• Oxford In Bloom
• Dunstan Road speed bumps