Life in and around Headington & OX3 (mostly), and Oxford (occasionally)
"To every complex problem there is a simple solution, startling in its simplicity, piercing in its clarity, and hopelessly and completely wrong" - Gore Vidal.
This post is really a formality to record that the roadworks to lay the heatpipe between the JR and Churchill Hospitals are now complete. All the machinery is gone, the roads have been reinstated, and the only signs of all the disruption are stretches of new black tarmac which will soon fade.
The last road to be affected was Churchill Drive, and work there finished about ten days ago. To prove it, here’s a picture taken today.
Churchill Drive after the heatpipe work was completed, June 2017
I’ve moved the full story of the Headington Heatpipe to this website’s archive.
As my commemorative blog post reports, all the heatpipe roadworks in Headington’s residential streets are finished. Work on Churchill Drive is scheduled to end on 26 May.
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.
In local election week the big news for Headington is that the Headington Neighbourhood Plan @HeadingtonPlan was approved by referendum with an 86% ‘Yes’ vote. It was no change in the County elections here in OX3, and new councillor Mark Ladbrooke was elected for Labour in the Barton & Sandhills Ward by-election following the death of Van Coulter earlier this year.
Your weekly round-up of local news for 24 – 30 April.
As of last Wednesday (27 April) and until 22 May, heatpipe works mean the 700 buses won’t be able to serve some of the stops on the Churchill Hospital site.
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.
Labour MEP for the South-East @AnnelieseDodds, who lives in Rose Hill, has been selected as Labour candidate for Oxford East after @AndrewSmithMP stood down. Here is her statement to Labour supporters.
Anneliese Dodds
A burst water main at the junction of Marston Road and Crotch Crescent on Monday was “more complex” than Thames Water originally thought. Service had been restored by early evening.
@blackmambatatto have won the right to retain their web domain name blackmambatattoo.co.uk after the original registrant and designer was untraceable. Good luck with the new website.
Leaflets promoting a ‘Yes’ vote for the @HeadingtonPlan on Thursday have been delivered throughout Headington.
The Iris Project, who run the Classics centre at Cheney School, has opened an in-school museum. It’s called the Rumble Museum @Rumblemuseum, named after Jamie Rumble. Their facebook page tells you more about it and there’s more in the Oxford Times.
