Tuesday’s meeting will now take place in Headington Prep School from 6.00-7.30pm

A quick reminder that all are welcome to attend our WFM tomorrow Tuesday at Headington Baptist Church Hall from 6pm.

We’ll be discussing local and national issues from the closure of the local GP surgery to the EU referendum. We’ll be joined by the local police too so there’ll be something for everyone …. including refreshments!

Headington Ward Focus Meeting, organised by your local councillors Altaf, Ruth and Roz

Tuesday 31 May

6:00-7:30pm

Headington Baptist Church, Old High Street

with guest speaker Kirsten Johnson

Guest speaker: Kirsten Johnson on Staying In: the Euro Referendum

Date: Tuesday 31st May

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Place: Headington Baptist Church Hall, Old High Street

An Open Session for your comments too! Free of charge. All welcome! Bring your councillors to account!

Ward Focus meetings are run on a drop in and out basis and are free of charge. There is an open session where residents can raise issues of concern. There’s no need to book.

If you would like to contact your Lib Dem city councillors for advice on any issue please contact

• Altaf on 07931 345554  altaf.khan@oxfordlibdems.org.uk 
• or Ruth on 07789 368300 @RuthWilk ruth.wilkinson@oxfordlibdems.org.uk.
• For county matters please ring Roz Smith on 07584 257156 or email her at roz.smith@oxfordlibdems.org.uk

Here are details for your diary:

Date: Tuesday 26th January

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Place: All Saints Church House, New High Street, OX3 7AL

A guest speaker from Brookes and an Open Session for your comments too!

Includes an update on the energy pipe application

Bring your councillors to account and raise any Headington issue in our Open Session. Ward Focus meetings are run on a drop in and out basis and are free of charge. There is an open session where residents can raise issues of concern. There’s no need to book. Do come along and take part.

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

Three informed speakers at next Tuesday’s meeting:

Sheila Aldred on forthcoming developments on hospital land

Martin Sutton about Stagecoach bus services

Guy Dunkley from the Fire Service

Put the date in your diary!

Date: Tuesday 24th November

Time: 6:00 – 7:30 pm

Place: All Saints Church House, New High Street, OX3 7AL

All this and Open Session for your comments too! Free of charge. All welcome!