Headington

Local elections – Headington candidates

TonyOX3

Here’s a quick summary of the candidates standing for the City Council in the six Headington wards. * = current councillor seeking re-election.

David Rundle is standing down in Headington Ward and Altaf Khan is switching from Headington Hill & Northway to stand in Headington Ward. The current councillors in the other four wards are all standing for re-election.

The Conservatives, Greens, Labour and LibDems are fielding candidates in all six wards. UKIP have three candidates: in Barton & Sandhills, Chuchill and Marston. There is one Independent standing in Barton & Sandhills and one with no stated allegiance in Headington Hill & Northway.

As far as I can discover, none of the UKIP or Green candidates are on twitter. If anyone knows of any of the candidates with twitter accounts which I haven’t listed please let me know. [Update 8 May: UKIP candidate Ian Macdonald is on twitter as @IanMacdonald91.]

BARTON & SANDHILLS

Name Party twitter
Sallie Barnard LibDem  
Van Coulter * Lab @VanCllrvcoulter
Raymond Hitchins Green  
James Johnson Con @jamesjohnson252
Benjamin Linus Ind @bad_gateway
Ian Macdonald UKIP @IanMacdonald91

CHURCHILL

Name Party twitter
Berk Burak Bektas Con @BerkBBektas
Susan Brown * Lab  
Julian Faultless Green  
James Reilly LibDem  
David Slater UKIP  

HEADINGTON

Name Party twitter
Mohammed Altaf-Khan LibDem @maltafkhan
Theodora Dickinson Con @theadickinson
David Boyd Haycock Green  
David Henwood Lab @DavidHenwood2

HEADINGTON HILL & NORTHWAY

Name Party twitter
Farida Anwar Lab  
Ruth Bamber Green  
Mark Bhagwandin Con @markb_gt
Maria Bourbon LibDem  
Nicholas Fell    

MARSTON

Name Party twitter
Mary Clarkson * Lab @maryoxford
Duncan Hatfield Con @Old_Marston
Jonathan Miller UKIP  
Alistair Morris Green  
Salman Navqi LibDem  

QUARRY & RISINGHURST

Name Party twitter
Katherine Harborne Con @KatHarborne
Delia Sinclair * Lab @delia_sinclair
Roz Smith LibDem @RosalindRogers
Liz Taylor Green  

Report Published

TonyOX3

I have received a copy of the Consultants’ report on the Headington Transport Strategy. It is in two parts, which you can download from the links below. I haven’t had time to absorb it yet but first impressions are that it describes the present situation rather than setting out a strategy for dealing with the acknowledged problems. Indeed, the main report describes itself as a “Baseline Conditions Report”. There’s plenty of tables of data and quite a few maps: how up-to-date and reliable I can’t yet say.

As far as I know the County Council has not yet announced any public consultation on the report. I will post more on this when I can.

Download:
Baseline Conditions Report Jan 2014 (6.31Mb pdf)
Growth Pressures & Appendices Nov 2013 (672Kb pdf)

Headington Headlines #140

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 2 – 8 December.

Friday nights are Girls’ Nights Out in Barton, for young women aged 14 – 17. But only from 6.30 – 8.30pm.

Headington cyclist Simon Hunt has taken over from James Styring as Chairman of campaigning group Cyclox @cycloxoxford.

@OxFurniture shut down their not-so-old shop on Saturday evening, and re-open this morning (Monday) in what was Brambles. It must have been a busy Sunday!

Blackburn Close is looking much better now.

A free cash machine has recently been installed outside the Post Office in Risinghurst.

National tree week was marked in Bernwood Road, Barton the weekend before last by the planting of about 40 saplings in Bonny Banks Park.

Kennett House was sold at auction for £2.5m (+VAT). Original story in HH 138.

Barton got into the Christmas spirit with the Barton Christmas Wonderland yesterday (Sunday 8 Dec). A pantomine, face-painting, raffle and tombola were among the attractions.

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

  • Noise in Quarry
  • Chain stores in Headington
  • London Road proposed cycle lane consultation
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.