The Long Wittenham 200 Club is pleased to announce the August winners. £10 each goes to:
26 C. Bosley
23 K. Earl
129 A. Byard
81 N. Gitsham
168 Mrs. Barnes
Profits from the 200 Club go towards the maintenance and improvement of the Village Hall. There are cash prizes through the year: £10 per week for 48 weeks, £50 in June and December and £100 in September and March. The draw is made monthly. Continue reading
A new Integrated Urgent Care Service is being launched across the Thames Valley in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire from September.
Currently NHS 111 is a free national telephone service to assess the level of care that someone needs and signpost them to an appropriate healthcare service. It does not offer a diagnosis but assesses and provides advice on the person’s symptoms, suggests the type of care they need, how soon they should access this and what local healthcare services are available.
NHS England is extending Integrated Urgent Care across the country and Thames Valley Continue reading
The Friends of St Mary’s Church Long Wittenham will be holding the annual Harvest Supper at the Village Hall on Saturday 30th September starting at 7pm.
The evening will include live music from local band Eclectica and the Church Raffle Grand Draw. A donations bar will be provided. Proceeds will go towards the planned toilet & improved catering facilities for the church.
Everyone is welcome.
Tickets for the Harvest Supper (£10.00 for adults and £4.00 for children under 16) and for Continue reading
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.
In a wide-ranging report Adams Habermehl of Sutton Courtenay says: “With overview of the project and assessment process it appears highly likely that the proposals will lead to significant adverse landscape and visual effects over an extended period, leading to major and unacceptable impacts.”
“In the meantime and to the extent that the scheme could not be supported or Continue reading
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.
One of two suggested routes for the road would cut through part of the site for a huge quarry on land between Culham and Clifton Hampden and that could have implications for the quarry. Oxfordshire County Council’s planning committee is expected to discuss the issue next month. Continue reading
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.
The government is promising councils £255m to remove speed humps, change road layouts and boost public transport. Draft proposals have to be published by next spring. The chairman of Long Wittenham Parish Council Gordon Rogers wrote to Yvonne Constance the cabinet member responsible for transport about the county’s approach.
Mrs Constance said removing humps would be considered but there were many Continue reading
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.
Everyone is welcome. Teas provided. Bring a picnic if you like.
There will be a collection box for funds for a new toilet at St Mary’s Church.
Call 01865 407476 for more details. Continue reading
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.
It’s part of a network of cycle-ways linking the Vale Science area at Harwell, Milton Park, Didcot and Culham. Nearly £5m of county council funding has been put aside with the aim of encouraging more people to get out of their cars and cycle to work.
The Didcot-Culham link would use the existing cycle path from Didcot to Long Wittenham but after the village the proposed scheme runs into engineering challenges and land issues. Continue reading
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.
Appleford, Clifton Hampden, Culham and Long Wittenham Parish Councils asked South Oxfordshire District Council for more time to consider the plans. They accused the district council of a lack of meaningful engagement over the £620m government-funded plan which will transform Didcot and neighbouring communities.
The clerk to Appleford and Clifton Hampden Parish Councils Anne Davies said: “I am not Continue reading
