South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) has now confirmed that its planning committee will consider Kler’s planning application to realign the Didcot Road on Wednesday 7th November. The meeting starts at 6pm at Didcot Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN and the agenda is here.
Councillor Steve Brown will be putting the case against the application at the meeting on Continue reading
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Planning is underway for a Long Wittenham “Big Lunch” to celebrate the community and the 100th birthday of the Womens’ Institute in Oxfordshire. The Wittenham branch of the WI was formed 70 years ago.
On Monday 26th November at 7.30pm WI members, in conjunction with the Athletics Club, will be meeting at the clubhouse to formulate plans for the event Continue reading
Don’t forget to buy your tickets for the 10th Annual Bonfire Night which will place next Saturday 3rd November on Ward’s Field, starting at 6pm. Early bird tickets will only remain available until Friday 2nd November. After that there will only be a limited supply on the gate, so hurry, get yours before it’s too late!
Ticket prices: adults: £6, children: £3, family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children): £16, U4s: free. Continue reading
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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