What’s happening at Tuesday’s area committee (all welcome)

Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing at Tuesday’s area committee meeting at Wood Farm School at 6 pm.  Don’t forget that all residents can come along and join in the debate:

  • Roads on which there should be 20 mph speed limits
  • Improvements to Queen Street
  • Whether land at Court Place Farm should be leased to Oxford City Football Club (we’ll also consider an objection to this)
  • Planning application re land on the corner of Marston Road/Cherwell Drive
  • Change to Marston cycle route
  • Police matters relating to the area

See you there!

Seat by bus stop at NOC inches closer…

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David has been pressing the NOC and I have been pressing the Highways Technical
Officer in a sort of co-ordinated pincer movement on getting a seat installed next to
the bus stop at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Windmill Road.

I thought you might like to see the latest communication we have received on this:

I’ve been checking with the NOC as it is still their property.  [This] hasn’t been adopted as Highway yet but this rests with the County.  In any event, it would have to perform through a 12 month maintenance period.

This notwithstanding, subject to the approval of the NOC I expect to
get a seat put there soon.

Several residents have contacted us with their concerns about the lack of seating at this bus stop.  Many of the patients visiting the NOC have mobility problems so we hope that this work progresses as quickly as possible.  We will keep lobbying hard for this!

Relocation of bus stops : Gipsy Lane

Oxford Brookes and Stagecoach have confirmed that the Gipsy Lane bus stops have been moved due to the roadworks.  Wheatley bound, the stop is nearer the gates to Headington Hill Hall, and City/Harcourt Hill bound it is nearer the entrance to the new Buckley building .

Signs have been put up but passengers are still getting confused.  On a couple of occasions people have been seen jumping the orange barriers, this is not safe, and Oxford Brookes University has asked us to pass on this information to anyone we know who travels on the Brookes bus.

Police message

[THAMES VALLEY COMMUNITY MESSAGING – Oxford – B_04/03/09]

During the last week there has been a series of burglaries in the
Headington area. Electrical items and jewellery have been taken.
Please remember to make sure your home is secure, particularly when
you leave it unattended.

Delegated planning decisions

Permission has been given for a certificate of lawfulness to erect a telecomms mast on Rock Edge, and permission has been refused for an application to extend property in St Anne’s Road this week ending 27 February.  Please click on Planning decisions on the centre orange menu bar for details