Ruth Wilkinson and David Rundle

Three applications have been approved by officers on property at Ruskin, and in The Croft and Lime Walk. 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.

There is one planning application affecting property in our ward in Windmill Road: it has been delegated to officers.   If you would like to see it in full, please select “Planning applications” on the central orange menu bar

If you require information on the planning application process, please phone the City’s planning department (details on the above link) or contact David and Ruth. Closing date for comments on this application is 11 February 2010.

Here is the latest bulletin from the City Council. If you have any remaining rubbish collection issues, please let David and me know

Thursday 21^st 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

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.