South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils have put together ‘dog fouling maps’ of local towns and villages showing the areas with the highest number of complaints about owners not picking up after their animals.
Using the maps, the councils want to highlight the issue of dog fouling and remind owners that it is an offence for a person in control of a dog – an owner or dog Continue reading
The Parish Council will hold its monthly meeting via Zoom video conferencing at 7:30pm on Thursday 11th February.
Download the agenda here.
If members of the public have any comments they wish to make on items on the agenda, they should email the Parish Clerk at longwittpc@hotmail.co.uk. Continue reading
Local businesses from all sectors and sizes within the Didcot Garden Town area are invited to attend the first Business Sounding Board on Monday 8th February, between 4:30pm and 6pm.
The public online meeting will be chaired by Nigel Tipple, Chief Executive of Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, and hosted by the Didcot Garden Town team. Continue reading
Residents across Oxfordshire have benefited from the county’s home library service during the pandemic with 8,364 library books being delivered from April to December 2020.
Oxfordshire County Council’s home library service is offered free to users in partnership with Age UK to almost 800 residents of all ages. These residents are unable to visit libraries themselves through frailty, infirmity or a disability and have no Continue reading
Vanderbilt Homes has submitted a further planning application for the housing development on the corner of Fieldside and Didcot Road.
This is another ‘discharge of conditions’ which means that it deals with the conditions specified by the planning inspector when the outline planning permission was granted for the site in January 2018.
The application contains a number of documents and plans relating to materials, refuse Continue reading
Residents will be aware that the road to Clifton Hampden has flooded. This is due to very heavy rain over the last week or two which has led to high river levels in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) has placed ‘Road Closed’ signs at the triangle at the end of the High Street.
There is a lot of standing water on roads and people are asked to drive with extra care. Continue reading
Residents who are not already subscribers to Oxfordshire County Council’s digital newsletter “Your Oxfordshire” may like to download the latest edition.
The project to restore the bells at St Mary’s Church is well underway, reports Julia Sargent, the head of the project.
The six bells have been lowered from the tower and are now at Whites Bell Hangers in Appleton where work has started to repair and retune them. The new bell wheels have been made and the huge metal headstocks, which attach the bells to the frame have been placed in position on the bells ready to bolt on. Continue reading
Read the latest about the progress of the Science Vale Cycle Network (SVCN) project in the January edition of the Oxfordshire County Council Update.
The Gatehouse which helps to look after the homeless in Oxford has put out an urgent appeal for men’s winter clothing.
It needs coats, jumpers and jeans. If you are able to provide any of these, please deliver them to Sally Duff who will get them dropped off to The Gatehouse. Her address is: Continue reading
