This coming Sunday’s (7th October) service at St Mary’s Church will celebrate the Harvest Festival. Breakfast will be served from 9:15am and the service will start at 9:30am.
Please bring Harvest Gifts in the form of tinned food or dry goods (e.g. Continue reading
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Long Wittenham Primary School has set a new date and location for its Favours Auction which will now be at the school on Friday 23rd November. Doors will open at 7pm and the auction will start at 7.30pm. All proceeds will go to the school.
There are lots of fantastic items in the catalogue on which to bid. Continue reading
Kler have made yet more amendments to their planning application to re-align the Didcot Road to facilitate the entrance to the site of their housing development on the corner of Fieldside and Didcot Road.
These latest amendments are dated 5/9/2018 and 18/9/2018 although some of the documents appear to be duplicates. The public consultation has been Continue reading
This year’s Village Bonfire Night will take place on Saturday 3rd November and the bonfire will be built on that morning so it’s time to start saving your wood and newspapers.
If you have wood or old newspapers that can go on the bonfire you can either bring them to Ward’s Field (behind Pendon Museum) on the Continue reading
The Parish Council has made a £500 grant in support of the campaign to pay for a part-time teaching assistant at the village school.
In common with many state-funded schools throughout the country Long Wittenham primary school is struggling financially to make ends meet as education budgets are squeezed. The school needs to recruit a teaching assistant to help cope with rising pupil numbers and increasing Continue reading
The Oxford Diocese and Oxfordshire County Council have agreed to pay their costs towards the new school – for example for internal furnishing, removal expenses and legal costs. This has allowed the developer Thomas Homes to proceed with viability assessments for the whole project. Thomas Homes expects to be able to make a full planning application before Christmas. Continue reading
The public consultation on the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) ended on 11th September with twelve responses from residents and ten from outside bodies.
Some residents were concerned that the size of the proposed Community Hub site off Didcot Road had been expanded, but Councillor Peter Rose who Continue reading
Another in our occasional series showing images and items of interest from Long Wittenham’s past.
This time, then and now photographs of No. 17 High Street: the first taken in the early 1900s when it had become the village police house (taking over from No. 15), and the second taken this year. Continue reading
The Parish Council has set the dates for its meetings and the Annual Parish Assembly for next year.
All meetings will take place at 7:30pm in the Village Hall.
10th January – Parish Council Meeting Continue reading
