Another in our occasional series showing images and items of interest from Long Wittenham’s past.
This time, some fascinating aerial photographs of the village taken in 1959. Click on the thumbnails to view or download high resolution versions. Continue reading
The North East Didcot housing development will be bigger than originally planned. Land owners Reading University says its developers want to add at least another 120 homes on an area previously earmarked as ‘retained farmland’.
A planning application is expected to be lodged with South Oxfordshire District Council Continue reading
Oxfordshire County Council transport officials are not happy with Hills Quarry Products’ latest plans to mitigate lorry movements out of the proposed quarry site off Abingdon Road.
Transport Control Officer Geoffrey Arnold says he’s not been persuaded by the proposals and has lodged an objection stating that the traffic impact of the Continue reading
Residents who are signed up for brown bin collections can put out twice as much garden waste during the week commencing 22nd October.
South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) is giving those who are part of the paid-for service the opportunity to put out the equivalent of one extra bin’s worth of garden waste (around three large bin bags). Continue reading
Many residents will have seen the recent announcement by the government of the preferred corridor for the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, which aims to provide a high-quality road link to better connect Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge.
For information about the preferred corridor, how it was chosen, the next steps and the Continue reading
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Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the third Village Apple Day last Saturday, 13th October.
Unfortunately there was not such an abundant apple harvest in the village as in previous years. This was probably due to lack of rain earlier in year; apples came early for some and not at all for others. Despite this, a total of 362kg Continue reading
Early Bird Tickets are now available from Long Wittenham School and Clifton Hampden Post Office for the 10th Anniversary Village Bonfire Night on Saturday 3rd November from 6pm on Wards Field. Tickets are £6 for adults, £3 for children (U4s free) and £16 for a family bundle (2 adults, 2 children).
This year promises to be a really magical evening with a few extra touches laid on to help Continue reading
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils are looking to update their housing allocation policy and have launched a six-week public consultation on the proposed changes.
The councils’ housing allocation policy needs reviewing to reflect the districts’ housing needs since the current policy was introduced five years ago. There have Continue reading
More than thirty residents attended the special Parish Council meeting on Thursday 11th October to hear details of the progress on the revision of the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) following the recent Regulation 14 consultation.
Councillor Peter Rose, chairman of the NDP Steering Committee gave a presentation Continue reading
