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Headington Headlines #253

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 8 – 14 February.

There’s a brief energy project round-up here. 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.

Copse Lane, Marston will be closed east of Eden Drive from today (Monday) to Friday for construction of a pedestrian crossing.

Waitrose has submitted a planning application (ref: 15/03655/FUL) to put out tables & chairs on its Old High Street frontage.

A Barton man was sentenced to 6 years in jail for an assault with a bottle in March last year.

The group that runs the Tyndale School off Barracks Lane is interested in opening a new free primary school in Headington. I wrote a background piece about it.

@Oxonbike is going to add 16 electric bikes to its fleet this Spring. They say “Funding has been provided by the Dept of Transport and Oxford University to trial the interest and use of rental e-bikes within the scheme.” (And is ‘fleet’ the right term for a corporate set of bikes?)

Finders Keepers removed their advertising hoarding from the corner of Latimer Road after planning enforcement action.

A man from Headington was killed in an accident on the M40 near Banbury on the night of Sunday 7 February.

An enforcement notice has been served on the owner of 14 Sandfield Road requiring the fence to be lowered and the site cleared of excess materials.

Windmill Primary School @WindmillOxfordwas given an “outstanding” rating by Ofsted after an inspection last June.

A ‘small fire‘ at Oxford Brookes’ Abercrombie Building on Thursday evening became a ‘blaze‘ by the time the news reached @TheOxfordMail.

The two people arrested in connection with the Lloyd’s Bank robbery (see HH 250) appeared in Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Friday charged with robbery.

Also on Friday a person riding a bike was taken to hospital in a “serious but not life-threatening condition” after someone hit them with a car.

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

  • Disruption
  • Tower block refurbishment
  • Empty ground-floor premises in Headington centre

Headington Headlines #251

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 25 – 31 January.

I have no further news about the Energy Project this week. So far only one public comment appears on the Council’s website – an objection based on a claim that Vital Energi have no right to excavate in sub-soil owned by the frontagers of the properties past which the pipes will run. 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.

Work has started to make a new Post Office in the Co-op. The opening date is now Monday 15 February.

Shopfitters have started work on the new Post Office in the Co-op.
Shopfitters have started work on the new Post Office in the Co-op.

The Planning Review Committee on Wednesday gave planning permission for the Latimer Road student housing, subject to the developers coming up with a satisfactory solution to screen Headington Prep School from being overlooked. People are now concerned about the timing of the construction possibly coinciding with the heatpipe road works, but at present there’s no information on the timing of either.

Headington’s contribution to the Cecil Rhodes statue debate:

Headington Pet and Garden Store (it’s on the corner of Stile Road opposite the Co-op) is closing down.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week – is that David Beckham outside the chip-shop in Barton?

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

  • The Headington Plan – whats next? (August 2015)
  • Northway Update
  • Parking at the JR Hospital
  • Disruption
  • Cold callers selling goods
  • Former Quarry Gate pub

Headington Headlines #248

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 4 – 10 January.

Now you see it, now you don’t! What happened on the heatpipe project last week? My handy summary is here. 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.

Aldi have submitted a planning appplication (ref: 15/03709/FUL) for a new store on the Curry’s site at Horspath Driftway (where Homebase is).

According to the BBC, Hampshire Police have confirmed they have received a complaint alleging criminal behaviour by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the Trust involved in the death of Connor Sparrowhawk in 2013. The Trust is accused of producing false and misleading information, an offence under the 2014 Care Act.

Sobell House hospice is going to build a new £4m specialist facility at the Churchill Hospital.

There has been a landslip from the old quarry wall in the back garden of a house in Coppock Close, thought to have been caused by the exceptionally wet weather recently. Fortunately no-one was hurt.

Charles Young, spokesperson for the Headington Car Club car-sharing scheme, presented a petition to Oxfordshire County Council before Christmas asking them to reconsider their refusal to allocate two on-street parking bays in Headington (see HH 240). Here he is in a video from @ThatsOxfordTV explaining how car-sharing works.

Also from @ThatsOxfordTV, here is Marston independent councillor Mick Haines, supported by Joanna Bartlett, urging support to stop the demolition of the Jack Russell pub to build housing.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Barton Park development
  • City Council agrees energy pipe needs planning permission
  • Free water, energy and money-saving offer
  • Headington Post Office
  • Pothole – Marston flyover slip