Download the PDF document at the link below. Note this is a very large document, so please expect it to take a while to download.

East_Hagbourne_Village_Character_Assessment_Final

Below is a download link to the Didcot Garden Town Plan which is very encouraging to East Hagbourne residents. Please engage with your support for it.

Summary

• Green Gap – Grainger and Nurton shown as green buffer.
• Catesby – shown as green buffer
• Greenlight – shown as woodland

Download Didcot Garden Town Plan

Thank you for everyone’s help in organising the fete and turning up to support it.  A special thank you to the fete committee: Denise, Trevor, Susanah, Michelle and David.

The context is that an application by the developers for a screening opinion on an Environmental Impact Assessment is needed.

Your comments are to be submitted by 9th June at:
http://www.gld-public-consultations.co.uk/east-hagbourne/#have-your-say

A planning application will follow later and at that time we (the village & Council) will make more detailed comments.

Here is the Parish Council’s  formal reply to SODC in regards to this initial proposal :

Although the size of the proposed development is beneath the normal size required for an EIA, we feel that the sensitivity of the location coupled with the size of the development should require the developers to produce a formal Environmental Impact Assessment. The reason being that the proposed development is situated directly opposite this Village School but adjacent to the School sports field which would require  the children to have to cross the access road to the proposed development twice every time that they visited the sports field. This area of the village is already very congested and potentially hazardous particularly between 8.15 and 9.00 when pupils are arriving at the school, villagers are leaving the village to go to work, and the commuter traffic is adding to the congestion. A development of anything like this scale would clearly be unsustainable and have a very severe impact on the local environment as well as occupying land that may be needed for future community use. We therefore submit to the planning office that a full EIA must be required before any possible development on this site could be considered.

The Hagbourne Fun Run and Walk 2017 results are now available to download:

• Mens Provisional Results 2017
• Ladys Provisional Results 2017

The Annual Parish Meeting has been moved to The East Hagbourne Pavilion. Meeting will start at 19:30.

Communities in South Oxfordshire have been invited to public exhibitions across the district in April to find out more about the district council’s plan to address the local need for housing.

•    Didcot, Cornerstone – Wednesday 5 April,1pm – 7pm
•    Wallingford, Regal Centre – Friday 7 April, 3pm – 7pm
•    Thame, Barns Centre – Saturday 8 April, 10am – 4pm
•    Henley, The Christchurch Centre – Saturday 22 April, 10am-4pm

The plans include a more detailed look at what new infrastructure will be needed and how it will be delivered.

The latest draft of the council’s new Local Plan will be available from 29 March for seven weeks to give residents and local organisations the opportunity to comment on the document, as they have done throughout the development of the plan so far.

This is the fourth round of public consultation – this version of the plan goes into greater detail than before, and it includes changes and additions based on feedback residents have already provided.

The plan includes more detail about the district’s need for infrastructure and how this will change as new houses are built – the council’s Infrastructure Delivery Plan sets out how this will be addressed and paid for.

Cllr John Cotton, Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council, said:

“We are coming to an important stage as we develop the Local Plan and now is the time for residents to get involved. It covers how we plan to deal with the local need for new homes, but also how we’ll make sure the district gets the infrastructure and high quality jobs it needs to support them.”

People aged 60 and over living in rural areas across southern Oxfordshire can claim a month’s swimming sessions for just £5.

GO Active Gold is offering vouchers to use at district council leisure centres from 1 April to 31 May.  Residents can sign up for the offer by visiting www.getoxfordshireactive.org/go-active-gold or by calling 01235 422240.

To claim this offer you must register by Saturday 1 April.

The leisure centres where the offer can be used include Didcot Wave.

Applications for children due to start primary or secondary school in September 2017 can now be made online.

Families with children born between 1 September 2012 and 31 August 2013 are urged to visit the primary school admissions pages on OCC’s website to find out how to apply for places for next year.

Applications for primary or junior schools also need to be made for children currently attending an infant school who were born between 1 September 2009 and 31 August 2010.

Families with children due to move up to secondary school next September should visit the secondary school admissions pages. (There is also information for anyone interested in applying for a Year 10 transfer to a University Technical College (UTC) or Studio School.)

When applying parents are strongly advised to state three preferences and include their catchment school as one of these – even if it is their third preference school. This does not in any way affect families’ chances of securing a place at their first-preference school.

OCC still accepts postal applications but recommends families apply online where possible, as this helps speed up the applications process. It also means families receive an automatic response confirming their application has been received and can be quickly notified if further information is needed.

This evening – Tuesday 25th October, 7.30pm,
Hagbourne Village Hall

Please come to a meeting where we’ll present the key themes that have emerged from the Neighbourhood Plan Survey. You’ll have a chance too to view the full report.

There are many interesting results, and some surprising ones too.

Find out what the village said about Our Community, Housing, Traffic and Transport, Environment, Heritage and Character, Housing Need, and Youth Issues.

The Survey results will shape policies within the Neighbourhood Plan so this is a great opportunity to see how the Plan will develop.

Many thanks,

The Plan Steering Group

Nominate now in the 2016 Rural Oscars

We are delighted to announce that the 2016 Countryside Alliance Awards, nicknamed the “Rural Oscars” are open to public nomination and invite contributions across four categories:

Local Food & Drink
Village Shop/ Post Office
Tourism Enterprise
Farm Enterprise (new in 2016)

The Rural Oscars recognise hard working rural businessmen and women and those who routinely go the extra mile for their community or help to preserve and protect rural life.

Nominate in the Rural Oscars
East Hagbourne Community Shop, 114 New Road, East Hagbourne, OX11 9LD

Nominations close Friday 4 November and the winners will be announced at a Parliamentary reception in March 2017 which will be supported by cross party Parliamentarians.

Nominations can be made in more than one category and previous nominees are welcome to get involved again.

From November, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils will only empty green wheelie bins if the recycling in them is loose or in clear sacks.

Despite a recent campaign to raise awareness of the issue, some people are still putting in things like food waste and dirty nappies, contaminating whole truckloads of recycling – when these things are put into recycling bins in black or coloured sacks they’re not spotted until it’s too late.

If there’s a sack in a recycling bin and the waste crews can’t see what’s in it, they’ll have to assume it contains contamination and won’t empty it.

Councillor Tony Harbour, cabinet member for waste at South Oxfordshire District Council, said: “Contaminated recycling has become a real issue that we have to tackle. Insisting on loose recycling or clear sacks is a simple change that will make a big difference – and most people won’t be affected. If you do want to use bin-bags in your green bin, you can use clear ones, which are available from most large supermarkets and hardware stores.  In most cases, clear sacks work out cheaper than black ones.”

Councillor Charlotte Dickson, cabinet member for waste at Vale of White Horse District Council, said: “Throughout October we’ll leave a note on any bins with the wrong colour sack in it to explain the problem – we’ll empty the bin on that occasion, but from November we’ll then have to start leaving them unemptied to help us protect everybody else’s recycling from getting contaminated.”
Note for parish councils and local publications
Please help spread the word – over the coming weeks keep an eye on @southoxon and @whitehorsedc and help the spread by retweeting our messages about clear sacks and loose recycling – thank you!

Take a look at our video that shows how bad the problem is when people use black or coloured sacks – https://youtu.be/ycwHKZ3-3vY

Repair to St Andrew’s Church Stonework The PCC of St Andrew’s, Hagbourne is pleased to announce that the stonework repairs to the exterior of the church has started and, given fine weather, will be completed in 9 weeks.

Scaffolding has been erected which will necessitate a slight deviation of the path through the churchyard, but the right-of-way will remain open. The building site will be fenced off but caution should be exercised in the area. If anyone has any concerns about this work as it progresses please discuss them with me as I am the

Client point-of-contact for this contract:

John Allen Jones, Churchwarden, 01235 813326,  jajones@dsl.pipex.com