Here are some further ideas sent to us electronically for open discussion next Tuesday at our Ward Focus Meeting (JR Lecture Room 1, nearest entrance: Osler Rd). Some great ideas here, please keep them coming! Even if we can’t afford them right now, they will inform community-led plans for Headington
| Spend item | Approx costs £ | Notes |
| A week’s free parking. | ||
| Many gardens in public view are bare, especially in rental properties – perhaps some money here would be a very cheap investment and produce good results, again particularly in the Cons Area where a lot of people walk | Use of volunteers? Cubs/Scouts/Guides? Parks could provide bedding plants fairly cheaply | |
| Where a 20 MPH sign and change IS required is on Headley Way near Headington School, having spent many mins waiting for the bus there and seeing school children cheerfully trying to kill themselves rushing across. | Inform Bursar of Headington School/ County Transport Planners | |
| Like to see the money spent on bringing back the hut on the Windmill school site back into service it cannot be used because of asbestos. It would make a good children’s a youth art club | ||
| “Landscaping” of the Waitrose car park | See above re Parks | |
| The money should be spent on something that will be of benefit to ALL Headington residents, rather than just a few residents of a specific road. Bring back “leafy Headington”: – Plant more trees along pavements in areas where views will not be restricted – Encourage residents to have green front gardens again, bushes, window-boxes, plants – e.g. £20 contribution for all who wish to participate |
Issue of trees along pavements leading to root heave. Discuss with Tree Officers | |
| Set up Headington Residents Association with annual (?) social event / celebration of nationalities to develop an integrated community | Discuss with Chair of CCoHRA (Co-ordinating committee of Headington Residents’ Associations) and Headington Action | |
| Education campaign for dog-owners in Headington who do not clean up after their pets | Discuss with Community Response Team | |
| The £5,000 could be spent on creating and publishing our own Local Land & Sites Development Plan to inform the City & County Strategic Plans. You, as our Councillors, could brief a local architect to E-map the area and sites – with your knowledge of local preferred uses. This E-Map could be on your website & circulated to residents to affirm or counter propose; and a 10 year local-plan published. Car Parks, Student & Retirement Homes, Bus Services, Traffic Routes, Cycle lanes, Libraries, Parks, Pedestrian crossings and etc could all be marked. Eventually, through continuous circulation to residents, the Headington & Marston Decade Plan 2012-22 could become the official democratic strategy. | We are keen to assist in the development of a community-led plan and have asked the Head of City Development to update us all on how this can be done most effectively – he will attend Tuesday’s ward focus meeting | |
| Warning signs in Gypsy Lane that there is a school there and that traffic should take care. See the crowds of children crossing this busy road in the morning in a hap-hazard way together with the minority who are delivered by car and whose parent drivers make impromptu manouevres at various points along the road. | Outside Headington ward | |
| I noticed that there were a lot of pedestrian/vehicle safety-related suggestions. We would much rather the money was spent in someway that helped the disadvantaged in the area (e.g. disadvantaged children, the disabled). Perhaps a ‘wheelchair route’ around the bits of Headington people like strolling around? For example you could connect up the hospital park area (next to Osler road) with the croft /St Andrews Lane and Bury Knowle. You could ensure access, improve any bits of pavement that needed improvement and have 2 ‘safe’ crossings (one across St Andrews road, the other from the top of the Croft to Bury Knowle (i.e. across The Old High Street) . A bit like the national cycle route idea. | Involve Oxford Unlimited |
These ideas are not yet costed