The Earth Trust has issued a warning that due to the warm weather there is currently blue-green algae in the pond in Neptune Wood.
These algal blooms can be toxic to all and fatal to dogs so please keep them on a lead and out of the water.
For more information see the Earth Trust website.
A reminder that because of the Bank Holiday, waste and recycling collections will change this week.
Green bin, garden waste and food collections will be a day later than usual on Friday.
More information on waste collections can be found on the South Oxfordshire District Council website: Continue reading
South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) has written a letter to Cllr Sue Brown, Leader of Oxford City Council, detailing its concerns over the city’s calculations on new housing needed in light of both councils’ Climate Emergency declarations and opposition to the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway.
The city’s emerging Local Plan has information on their proposed housing numbers based on the presumption that the Oxford-Cambridge Expressway will go ahead – something that Continue reading
It appears that Vanderbilt Homes has purchased the land on the corner of Fieldside and Didcot Road to develop the housing estate which was given outline planning permission in January 2018.
According to the Vanderbilt website, the development of two, three, four and five bedroom homes will be launched in the Summer of next year.
The company’s advertising material promotes Long Wittenham as a “particularly desirable Continue reading
The three giant cooling towers at Didcot Power Station were reduced to rubble and enveloped the site in clouds of smoke in a controlled explosion at seven o’clock yesterday morning.
The towers, each 325 feet tall disappeared in twenty seconds – wiped from the landscape.
More than thirty people from Long Wittenham gathered to witness history in the making and it was a party atmosphere among those watching the demolition event along the Continue reading
Residents will be aware that RWE will be demolishing the final three cooling towers of Didcot A Power Station in the early hours of Sunday 18th August.
The Earth Trust has asked the Parish Council to inform local residents of their emergency procedures for dealing with the potential increase in footfall.
Please read their letter here.
Residents who are not already subscribers to South Oxfordshire District Council’s digital newsletter “South News” may like to download the latest edition here.
Oxfordshire County Council is currently running an Oxfordshire Cycle Survey. The survey asks what people like or dislike about cycling in Oxfordshire, particularly looking at Oxford, Didcot and Bicester, but also about any problems encountered across the county.
The results of the survey will support the production of the first ‘local cycling and walking infrastructure’ plans for Oxford, Bicester and Didcot and is open for Continue reading
Residents may have seen some activity on the Community Hub site. Exploratory trenches are being dug to verify the situation regarding any possible archeological remains on the site.
An initial study of various records showed that there might be some remains beneath the site and so Oxfordshire County Council’s Archeology Officer has been consulted about what further investigation is required before the site design is finalised to Continue reading
Quiz fans from across South Oxfordshire are expected to converge on Little Wittenham this September and everyone is invited.
The Quiz Night, on Wednesday 4th September, to help raise funds for the Earth Trust, will take place in their beautiful 19th century barn.
Teams of up to six people can sign up for what’s shaping up to be an entertaining evening Continue reading
