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You have a top guest speaker coming to answer your questions at your next Ward Focus Meeting on 30th January – the chief executive of Oxford City Council. Here are the event details.
The next public meeting for residents who live in Headington Ward will be on
Tuesday 30th January 2018
Headington Baptist Church Hall, Old High Street, Old Headington OX3 9HW
from 6:00-7:30 pm
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
Residents have asked us why bins are sometimes missed and we have received the following information from the City Council.
Their instructions to crews are as follows:
Please note that in some tight roads such as Gardiner Street, inconsiderate parking in front of bins may result in neighbours not having their bins collected (see third bullet point above, highlighted) so please take care when parking on road at bin collection periods.
We have asked the City Council about the length of time it takes for works to trees to be carried out. Some residents have queried why it is taking up to three years for a tree to be pollarded, for example.
Here is the reply we have received.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide a monthly schedule of tree works. No matter how well we plan, enquiries come in everyday that we need to assess on a risk basis. This means that works are constantly being rescheduled as we have to deal with the highest priorities first.
Unforeseen events can also have a large impact on job completion, such as storms/high winds or vandalism.
Therefore it is currently very difficult to be able to plan in works any more than a week or two at a time – even this timescale is not always guaranteed.
The time involved in re-issuing the schedule every time we had to make changes would divert staff from dealing with the enquiries or planning the works.
We are asking whether in progress messages can be sent to those who have reported tree defects so that residents know the request has not got lost in the system.
A resident has asked why changes are being made to a Traffic regulation order in the Latimer Road area without including timing changes to parking restrictions in the Headington West Controlled Parking Zone – these currently show Saturday afternoon restrictions. The reply from the County Council may be of wider interest to those in the Highfield area so we are posting it up below.
We are aware of the anomalous situation within the Headington West CPZ in that many of the roads south of London Road have restrictions which were timed (both on Saturday afternoons and weekday evenings) to reflect the presence of the old Manor Ground. Indeed when we carried out a review of the Zone in around 2010 this was one of the main issues we sought to address. Unfortunately that review was never implemented, primarily due to the deterioration in Council finances, and I am currently unaware when it will be revived. Were we to have proposed changes to the restriction timings in Bickerton and Stapleton Roads as part of the current very localised consultation there would no doubt have been criticism from residents in other streets within the CPZ that they were not included, and we do not currently have the resources to carry out a zone-wide consultation/review.
We have asked the officer to let us have an approximate cost for a zone-wide consultation and review so that this can be added to the infrastructure projects listed for potential funding from Community Infrastructure Levy monies.
There are two this week for extensions in Gardiner Street and Lime Walk. Please click on Planning applications above to view details.
We have been alerted by the City Council that bin collections may be delayed this week, please see message below:
Freezing snow has made it difficult to operate recycling and waste collections safely today. The safety of crews and the public is paramount.
We’ll try to restart collections from tomorrow. If your collection day is Tuesday, leave the bin out. We’ll empty it by Saturday evening.
Here is the latest from County about the Access to Headington scheme.
The Slade
We have now completed the work between the mini roundabout at Hollow Way and Wood Farm Road and we are looking to complete the current phase of work between Wood Farm Road and Slade Close before Christmas.
We will start the last phase after Christmas between Slade Close and Old Road – this will take approximately four weeks to complete.
Traffic management will remain in place over the Christmas period, though we will remove as much as we can. Daily safety checks will be carried out
Churchill Drive/Roosevelt Drive
We are working in the final phase of this set of works and are on schedule to complete the main construction work before Christmas. There may be some minor work to do after Christmas but this will be minor and will cause little disruption.
The majority of the traffic management will be removed over the Christmas period however Churchill Drive will remain as access only and traffic leaving the Churchill site will continue to be diverted via Roosevelt Drive. The permanent traffic lights on Old Road have been switched on this week.
Headley Way
The team will start setting up begin on Tuesday 16th January, but this should not be disruptive to traffic. Construction work will start on Tuesday 23rd January. Information on programme of work will follow early January.
We are going to be holding a public exhibition on Thursday 14th December at the Heading Prep School between 2:30pm and 6:30pm. This is an opportunity to speak to members of the project team from the County Council, Skanska and the Designers. All aspects of the project remain the same as per the last public exhibition held in the Summer and all drawings can be found on the Oxfordshire County Council website.
Christmas Shut Down
All work will cease on Friday 22nd December for the Christmas period. Work will begin again on Tuesday 2nd January. Traffic management will remain in place during the closure for safety reasons. Regular safety checks will be made.