The Oxfordshire Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre is holding a Coffee Morning in the Long Wittenham Village Hall on Friday 25th August between 10am and noon to raise funds.
The centre is a registered charity based in Milton Park and its aim is to provide affordable and accessible complementary therapies, often not available on the NHS, as well as information and support, to those with MS. The centre also helps people with other problems like cancer. More details are on their website:
Do pop in for a coffee on Friday to support them.
A team of consultants has slammed proposals for a huge sand and gravel quarry between Clifton Hampden and Culham. The company was drafted in by Oxfordshire County Council to assess the likely impact a quarry would have on the landscape.
Historic England, the public body tasked with protecting England’s historic environment, has objected to a scheme which seeks to build a new link road and river crossing linking Didcot to the Culham Science Centre. The road, estimated to cost £125m, is a key part of South Oxfordshire District Council’s Local Plan which proposes a large scale housing development near the science centre.
Is the end of the road in sight for Long Wittenham’s controversial road humps? Removing humps from traffic calming schemes is being considered by the government in the drive to reduce growing pollution levels and they are being considered by Oxfordshire County Council.
Join the Wittenham Singers and the Wittenham Poetry Club for an evening of songs, poems and readings on Sunday 13th August from 4pm in Bryan and Angela Humphris’ lovely riverside garden – Cruckfield, High Street, Long Wittenham.
Plans for a new cycle path between Long Wittenham, Clifton Hampden and the Culham Science Centre should be ready for discussion by the end of the year.
A bid by four parish councils, including Long Wittenham, to seek an extension to consultations over the Didcot Garden Town plan has failed. The move follows calls from Didcot Town Council for an extension of the deadline which closed on 31st July.
A message from Earth Trust.
The permissive footpath through the Earth Trust meadow near Neptune Wood will be closed for approximately six weeks from Monday 7th August.
The formal notice of the inquiry into the Kler Group’s plans for 36 houses on the field at the corner of the Ddicot Road and Fieldside has been published and can be viewed or downloaded here: