Here are some notes from Tuesday’s public meeting.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• Running a campaign for residents to offer to rent out a room to NHS staff after Christmas. Staff accommodation is now full and people are desperate for keyworker accommodation
• Churchill masterplan under way – draft expected in March
• Buses – working with councils on changing the signals and marshalling Churchill Drive to manage traffic better into and out of the JR and Churchill sites
• While changes are made to access to the JR, emergency vehicles will need to access the site from a temporary entrance, this could be Sandfield Rd, Osler Rd, or Saxon Way
• New JR entrance has an M&S
• There will be a presentation about a new 57 bed Ronald McDonald children’s hotel at JR 16/1, want to involve residents in early planning consultations
• Estates is auditing paths, cycle track etc so a list of defects can be compiled and addressed
• Transport is a major issue, want to reintroduce parking enforcement

Stagecoach

• Afternoons are a problem for keeping buses to time due to congestion – on Tuesdays and Thursday it can take an hour for a bus to get into and out of a hospital site
• County cuts – no Stagecoach buses in Headington are affected
• Passenger numbers growing by 6-7% on the no. 10 route
• Subsidy/contract for some routes e.g. 900 expires 2017
• Sunday 30 Jan onwards, Stagecoach has responded to our request to re-route the three earliest no. 10 buses out of Osler Rd and via Headley Way to the JR
• Will run route 700 on a Saturday to Parkway. Will consider running the 700 on Sundays later
• Information – electronic displays – county want to cut these. It’s possible that bus companies may look at helping to fund these in future
• Buses have decreased in length from 12m to 10.8m and are more frequent to satisfy passenger need
• Considering making Route 10s double deck
• Will consider design as pole gets in the way of people trying to access disabled seating on some buses

Fire and Rescue Service

• There are 28 firefighters and 14 call out fire fighters at the Slade
• The website is 365 Alive because their 10 year vision was to save 365 extra lives and they’ve beaten their target in just over eight years
• Have delivered 802,000 safety messages in that time, and saved £166m
• Free risk assessments and fire detectors are available to those who are vulnerable in some way – mental health, mobility issues, frail elderly
• Able to give advice on carbon monoxide

Energy pipe project – see next post