Garden waste subscription service

Oxford City Council is introducing the chargeable service in May which will replace the current green hessian sacks.

Residents will be able to choose the size of their brown wheelie bin or opt for biodegradable eco sacks as an alternative or to complement the bin.

The service will cost £35 a year for the brown wheelie bin.  Eco Sacks come in packs of 10 for £25 or 20 for £35.

Residents can keep their hessian sacks to use in the garden, or elsewhere. But these won’t be emptied after the end of April. The new scheme is entirely voluntary.

A card will be placed on people’s bins within the city in the next two weeks to inform them of the change.
If you would like more information about how to deal with recycling and waste click here, email recycling@oxford.gov.uk or telephone 01865 248911.

These changes were voted through as part of the Labour budget in February

Park and Ride survey

The Park & Ride bus service is a well-used facility and Oxford Bus Company need to ensure that the services they run are in line with customer needs and expectations.  

They would value feedback from customers in the Headington ward. If you would like to complete a short survey please click  here

This survey is designed to give customers the opportunity to give  their comments so that Oxford Bus can plan the next phase of service development.

New Community Warden service in Headington!

The Street Warden service changes today and becomes the Community Response Team, with Community Wardens having a greater focus on tackling anti-social behaviour including environmental crime and enforcement.

The new contact number is 01865 252080.

The service will provide a rapid response investigative service for the whole of the city, focused on deterring, tackling and reducing anti-social behaviour.  Their main areas of work will be working with other Council teams and partners to reduce:

  • Interpersonal, malicious behaviour directed against an individual or group
  • Environmental damage
  • Behaviour that restricts use of public spaces

David and I can now bid for extra resource from us in any area of particular need or with specific tasking and operations, so please let us know directly if you have any concerns as well as phoning the above number.

Conservation area appraisal out for comment

The Consultation Draft of the Old Headington Conservation Area Appraisal is now available online for inspection at the following link

The public consultation will last until 11th May and the Council hopes to run a Saturday surgery event for anyone interested in commenting on the appraisal during this period.

Written comments are invited on the appraisal, rather than using an online questionnaire at this time.  Please don’t hesitate to copy us in on your responses as we will be sending in comments too!

Save our Libraries outside the Sheldonian

Selling Save our Libraries ribbons outside the Sheldonian!

Save Headington Library supporters were out in force this morning at the start of the Oxford Literary Festival. Almost everyone we talked to bought a purple ribbon and expressed their support for the Save Oxfordshire Libraries campaign. Many were shocked that libraries in a city with such a celebrated literary history are facing cuts and possible closure.

Decision time on Highfield Traffic Scheme

Last week’s Transport Planning Decisions meeting at County Hall was re-scheduled for the afternoon of Thursday 31 March, sadly at a  time when some key players cannot attend.

The funding allocated to the current Highfield Traffic scheme proposals is much less than has been discussed with Highfield Residents Association in the recent past. Residents are very concerned that the new proposals are ‘watered down’ and do not address the fundamental need for traffic speed reduction in residential streets

The proposal for an extra zebra crossing across Old Road near the junction with Stapleton Road has produced little in the way of positive resident feedback during the consultation, and we believe that a case can be made that the money earmarked for it would be better spent on putting in pinch points to reduce speeding traffic in Lime Walk and to introduce staggered parking which would effectively slow down traffic in neighbouring streets

Ruth and David are unable to attend the TD meeting at such short notice but have tabled a paper for consideration by the Cabinet Member for Transport.

We know that Windmill Road residents and Osler Road residents experience severe problems in terms of traffic congestion, volume, and speed. We are currently organising a public meeting for Osler Road residents in April with representatives from bus companies, the NHS trust and the county to establish how these issues can be addressed