Ideas for improving the play area have been suggested at local community workshops and from workshops at St Joseph’s school. One final open meeting will be held in the Sandfield Rd park play area on Sat 27 February from 10.00-11.00 (if the weather is bad, the meeting will adjourn to the St Antony of Padua Community Hall)
So if you want to have your say, please come and join us!
One application has been approved by officers on property in Osler Road. Please click on Planning Decisions on central orange toolbar for details
Consultation for a new look to three play areas in Oxford will take place over the next week.
Residents are being asked to get involved in consultation for Cutteslowe Bowling Green development, and two possible new Playbuilder parks at Bury Knowle and Sandfield Road.
On Friday 29 January there will be the Sandfield Road Playbuilder workshop from 5pm to 7pm at St Anthony’s Church Community hall.
The event is being hosted by Groundwork Thames Valley who are project managing the £2.5 million play area refurbishment programme for Oxford City Council.
If for any reason, you are not able to make it to the park on this date, please email oxfordplay@groundwork.org.uk with any comments.
Here is the latest bulletin from the City Council. If you have any remaining rubbish collection issues, please let David and me know
Thursday 21st January Today we have operated a normal collection service for Refuse, Recycling and Co-mingled for Blue week customers.
Food Waste and Trade Waste collections have run to a normal schedule. In addition, we have collected Co-mingled from Red week (Tuesday) customers in
Friday 22nd January
We will run a normal collection service for Refuse, Recycling and Co-mingled for both Red and Blue customers (Friday). There will be no green waste collection. Food Waste and Trade Waste collections will run as normal.
We will also return to those areas that have missed their previous Co-mingled waste collections because of the bad weather. Our focus will be on Marston (Wednesday collection). Deliveries of bins/boxes/lilac and garden waste sacks will resume.
Saturday 23rd January
We will be collecting Co-mingled (Blue Box) from the Barton area.
We will be operating a Green Box service – area to be advised.
Sunday 24th January
We will be running a limited green waste collection service in the
A Green Box waste collection service will also operate – area to be advised.
A meeting for your diary!
North East area committee
Date: Tuesday 19th January 2010 at 6.00 pm
Venue: Sandhills Primary School, Terret Avenue
We shall be discussing the management plan for Bury Knowle Park, you can download your copy from the council’s web page (item 5)
Please do come along and join in the discussion, all suggestions to improve the plan are welcome
Charity Age Concern Oxfordshire has joined forces with Oxfordshire County
Council to urge those who think they may be entitled to the central
government Cold Weather Payment to find out more and claim money that is
available to them. The £25 payments are automatically distributed when the
average temperature is, or is forecast to be, zero degrees Celsius or
below, for a period of seven consecutive days where a recipient lives to
those who fulfil certain criteria.
Click here for more information
David and I have received a number of enquiries about lack of postal deliveries, particularly in Old Headington, and the manager of the sorting and distribution depot has sent me this response:
The snow has presented a monumental challenge for us but the majority of
staff have gone over and above to complete as much of there deliveries as
possible. Now that the “big thaw” is under way we will be working to clear
the backlog of mail. All deliveries are going out today and I hope to be
back on track by Weds-Thursday next week. With regards to the deliveries
during the snow we had to rely on staff judgement with regards to what
areas we felt were safe to deliver and which were not.
If you believe you have still not received your letter deliveries by Wednesday 20 January please let us know and we will investigate further
You are invited to a consultation event on Monday 25th January from 7pm to 9pm at St. Andrew’s School, Headington
We would like as much involvement from residents, young people
and members of the local community as possible so please attend.
We would like to give more information about the proposal and
generate ideas for the refurbishment of the play area at Bury Knowle Park based on community needs.
If you have any queries or suggestions that you would like to voice
about the proposed refurbishment, or would like to get involved in
the scheme then please contact Groundwork at:
oxfordplay@groundwork.org.uk or on 07969 546494
Latest bulletin from the City Council 13/1/10 at 17.23
Today’s recycling and refuse collection services were suspended today due to the adverse weather conditions.
However, Oxford City Council, did provide a limited trade collection service in the city centre. We also operated a limited clinical waste collection service to areas that were accessible.
Tomorrow, we hope to be able to collect residual waste, weather permitting. However, we will be reviewing the situation tomorrow morning. We would advise residents to check our website for further information.
Tonight we will continue with our gritting schedule and our gritters will cover major routes throughout the city.
Tomorrow we will be clearing access routes to a number of secondary schools throughout the city.