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Christmas Tree Recycling
South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) have arranged for Christmas Trees to be collected from Bodkins Recreation Ground car park on Thursday 17th January 2017. Leave trees there by Wednesday 16th January. Residents with brown recycling bins can leave their tree … Continue reading
Putting Art Into Perspective
Long Wittenham artist Tim Widdowson has just published his first book. Putting Art Into Perspective is mainly about his lifetime’s involvement with design, architecture and artwork, internationally, as well as in the UK. For more than forty years a large … Continue reading
Oxfordshire Matters
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NDP Update
The Regulation 16 consultation on the revised Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) ended on 13th December. There were over thirty responses but the majority were letters of support from residents. Parish Councillor Peter Rose, the Chairman of the NDP Steering Committee, … Continue reading
New Hedge for Bodkin’s
Residents may have noticed that the hedge along the front of Bodkin’s Field on Northfield Lane has undergone substantial work. Parish Councillor Steve Brown explains what’s been done: “Following the very successful upgrade of the play equipment at Bodkins Field, … Continue reading
Survey on an Increase in Council Tax to Help Protect Operational Policing
The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Thames Valley, Anthony Stansfeld, has launched a survey seeking the public’s view on an increase in the police element of the council tax by £2 a month. On Thursday 13th December the Home … Continue reading
Christmas Waste And Recycling Collections
Residents are reminded that waste and recycling collections will change over the Christmas and New Year period. Brown bin collections (garden waste) will be suspended while crews concentrate on collecting the extra waste from Christmas. Garden waste customers will receive … Continue reading
Long Wittenham Past
Another in our occasional series showing images and items of interest from Long Wittenham’s past. With the village’s sewerage system in the news, we have some items from 1962 when the system was installed. First, a newspaper cutting dated 17th … Continue reading
SODC Local Plan
South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) will be taking a vote on its Emerging Local Plan on 20th December 2018. Please read a letter to all residents from District Councillor Sue Lawson, who represents our village, here. The SODC website to … Continue reading
Sewers Under Strain
Future housing developments in Long Wittenham must take into account the village’s sewage system, says the Parish Council. The council has decided to make it a standard response to any future planning applications such as Kler Group’s development and the … Continue reading