More than fifty people attended a day long consultation at St Mary’s Church last Saturday (19th March) to discuss plans for the Community Hub.
There were five sessions, with about thirty residents attending the first session to discuss the village hall and school.
Parish Councillor Peter Rose introduced to the meeting Chris Brotherton of Thomas Continue reading
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The Parish Council has arranged for some minor repairs to be carried out at Bodkins and Acklings playgrounds next week.
On Monday 21st March, some of Bodkins play area will be out of use while the repairs to the swings and climbing frame are done.
On Tuesday 22nd March, the picnic table at Acklings will be taken apart and repaired so it will not be in use. Continue reading
A reminder that the Parish Council, in partnership with Thomas Homes, is holding a series of meetings to discuss aspects of the Community Hub on Saturday 19th March in St Mary’s Church, commencing at 9am.
Full details and agenda are here: Continue reading
The author of Landmark in Time – The World of Wittenham Clumps, Peter Adamson, is coming to St Mary’s Church in May to talk about how and why his book came to be written, and about the challenge of making each of the twenty chapters tell a story about the things that fall within view of the Clumps.
The talk will also describe how the author began by thinking there were probably many places in England from which such a book could be written, but ended by realising that Continue reading
Thousands of council tax payers in South Oxfordshire will soon receive a £150 council tax ‘rebate’ to help with rising energy bills.
The government has announced that most households in council tax bands A-D will be eligible for the rebate, however, the ‘rebate’ will not be taken off residents’ council tax bills when they are issued.
South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) is putting arrangements in place to make a separate payment to households as soon as possible: Continue reading
The latest public consultation on the Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) was completed on 8th March and all the responses have been sent to the examiner for his opinion. The future timetable will depend on how quickly the examiner completes his report.
In a letter to the Parish Council, South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC)’s assistant planning officer Rosalynn Whiteley said that the council expects to receive the examiner’s fact checking report by the end of March. Continue reading
Royal Mail has asked the Parish Council to advise residents that, with immediate effect, 24hr and 48hr tracked parcels will no longer be left unattended at our doors unless the recipient requests that their parcel be left in a safe place.
If you have ordered something that will be 24/48hr tracked and receive a notification from Royal Mail of delivery, you must request a ‘leave in a safe place’ or desired location for delivery, if you will not be home. If not, the postman cannot leave the delivery without Continue reading
The Parish Council has been advised by South Oxfordshire District Council (SODC) of a new planning application within the village.
The application, at Mouldens, High Street, Long Wittenham, is to use the existing garage-style outbuilding as ancillary residential accommodation.
The details may be viewed on the SODC website: Continue reading
Many residents will have seen the recent leaflet from the vicar, the Revd Canon Paul Wignall.
For those who did not receive it, the text is reproduced here.
