Councillors on South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) have identified six main themes that they feel are the most important areas they need to focus on. They would like to know how residents, council staff and local organisations such as community groups, businesses and town and parish councils feel about these themes.
The six themes are:
(1) Homes and infrastructure that meet local needs Continue reading
Residents who are not already subscribers will want to read the latest edition of the Didcot Garden Town Newsletter. This special edition contains information about the Didcot Gateway project to create a residential-led development opposite Didcot Parkway train station.
See the SODC website for more information about the Didcot Garden Town project.
Several villagers have raised concerns about safety along a stretch of Little Wittenham Road and at the bend approaching the triangle in Northfield Lane where there is no path. Some residents in Saxons Heath have also complained about the speed of vehicles.
In a move to try to improve safety, the Parish Council is installing anti-speeding signs along the grass verges approaching the village from Little Wittenham and on Saxons Heath. The signs were designed by the primary school in a competition and have been Continue reading
The Parish Council has been advised by the Traffic Regulations Team at Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) that it will be necessary to close the B4016 Lady Grove from 17th August 2020 for mandatory gas main replacement works which are anticipated to be completed 7th December 2020.
The effect of the Order is to temporarily prohibit any vehicle proceeding in the whole length of Lady Grove. This is a 24 hour road closure. Continue reading
One of the main aims of the South Oxfordshire District Council’s (SODC) Local Plan is to ensure that housing development only happens where it’s suitable and sustainable.
As you may be aware, the Government requires the council to demonstrate that it has allocated enough housing land in the district to support development for five years. This is known as the Five-Year Housing Land Supply. If the council is not able to show this, then developers are more likely to submit Continue reading
The Parish Council is hopeful that problems surrounding the delay to the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) can be ironed out in time for a public referendum by May next year.
The NDP has been confronted by a number of frustrating hurdles in the last year, not least Historic England’s decision to schedule part of the land off Didcot Road, on which is it planned to build the Community Hub, as an Ancient Monument. Continue reading
All eyes will be on South Oxfordshire this week as the district becomes host to the first ever online ‘virtual’ public hearings for a Local Plan examination.
The South Oxfordshire Local Plan 2034 first became the subject of national interest after the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government in October last year took the unusual step in issuing a Holding Direction preventing the district council from taking any actions in relation to the Continue reading
The Parish Council has been advised by the Network Management Team at Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) that, in the interests of public safety, it will be necessary for OCC to close the High Street at Clifton Hampden on 9th August 2020 between 6am and 1pm. This is to facilitate traffic signals investigation works.
Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for those frontages within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works and liaison with the works supervisor. Continue reading
The Parish Council has a pot of money to be shared out amongst groups for making improvements to the service and facilities they provide for the community.
During the last twelve months the council has supported Home Start Southern Oxfordshire, South & Vale Citizens Advice, the church bells restoration appeal, and made a £200 contribution towards a new ‘mud kitchen’ for the primary school.
Other groups to have benefitted from council money in the last few years include the Continue reading
Residents will be aware of the recent power cuts in the village. The Parish Council has raised a complaint with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) on behalf of the village in order to establish the cause, as well as to obtain assurance that SSEN will endeavour to reduce these in the future.
SSEN has confirmed that the outages were the result of a fault with the main network. It appears that it was caused by trees coming into contact with cables because of the recent high winds. SSEN have a regular maintenance programme to reduce this type of fault, Continue reading
