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Planning Application
The Parish Council has been advised by South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) of a new planning application within the village.
The application, at French’s Cottage, High Street, Long Wittenham, is for the erection of a garden studio to be used for entertaining and as a home office.
The details may be viewed on the SODC website: Continue reading
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebrations Update
Here is your guide to everything that will be going on over the bank holiday weekend. It is hoped that everyone will be able to join in the activities planned, making it a memorable and fun village celebration.
All events will go ahead, come rain or shine, with marquees and gazebos laid on just in case the sun isn’t shining. Do feel free to invite your family and friends from further afield too. Continue reading
Neighbourhood Plan Update
Following the public consultation on the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) at the beginning of the year, the responses were sent to the Independent Examiner for his opinion in March.
The Parish Council received his report on 10th May. The report contains some changes to be made to the published plan but these are more technical than substantive. None of the changes will affect the building of the Community Hub or any of the other policies in the plan. Continue reading
Jubilee Parade Road Closure
Residents will be aware that the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations on Sunday 5th June include a children’s parade from St Mary’s Church to The Plough Inn.
To make this possible and safe, the High Street will be closed to traffic on the day from 1pm to 2pm. Road Closure signs will be be displayed at the appropriate time and locations. Continue reading
Bus Service News
The managing director of Going Forward Buses, Mike Ward, says services in the district could be at risk unless passenger numbers improve. And not helping matters is a reduction, this Autumn, in concessionary bus pass payments which are operated by Oxfordshire County Council.
Mr Ward says that the county council has confirmed that there isn’t any money for services through Long Wittenham, Clifton Hampden and Burcot. Going Forward operates Continue reading
Parish Council Meetings – Thursday 12th May
The Parish Council will hold its annual meeting at 7:30pm on Thursday 12th May in the Village Hall. This will be followed at 7:45pm by its usual monthly meeting.
Download the agendas:
Annual Parish Council Meeting Agenda / Monthly Meeting Agenda
All residents are invited to attend.
Forty Years On
Oxfordshire Art Weeks, the artist open studios and pop-up exhibition event, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. It runs from 7th to 29th May at a variety of venues across the county.
Our own Clare Owen and Nandi Ablett are exhibiting their work on 14th, 15th, 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd May at 42 Little Wittenham Road. See the flyer below.
Visit the Artweeks website. Continue reading
Book Talk at St Mary’s
A reminder that the author of Landmark in Time – The World of Wittenham Clumps, Peter Adamson, will be at St Mary’s Church tomorrow evening (Saturday 7th May) talking about his book and the challenge of making each of the twenty chapters tell a story about the things that fall within view of the Clumps.
He will describe how he began by thinking there were probably many places in England from which such a book could be written, but ended by realising that there can be very few Continue reading
Vanderbilt Name Change
Residents may have noticed that Vanderbilt Homes, the company that is building the housing estate on the corner of Fieldside and the Didcot Road, has undergone a name change. It is now Elivia Homes.
Crayfern Homes, a company based in Hampshire, West Sussex and Dorset was acquired by Vanderbilt in 2019. The resulting new company has been rebranded as Elivia Homes. Vanderbilt Homes was founded in 2004 and now operates as Continue reading