LOCATION: West Hagbourne, Main Street-L/A Horse & Harrow Public House

REASON: To facilitate Three new water mains connections

DURATION: Starting on 28 January 2019

The anticipated completion date is 1 February 2019

ACCESS: Limited access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for frontages within the closed section of road, subject to the progress of the works

SUGGESTED ALTERNATIVE ROUTE:

London Road-Harwell Link Road-B4493-Park Road-Brook Lane-Main Street and vice versa

Fun Activities for Primary School children

Saturday 16th March 10am-4pm

£5 per child

Please find below dates of waste tours for the year:

The food waste is sent to the anaerobic digestion facility based in Wallingford, the tour will show you how your food waste is turned into electricity and a liquid fertilizer.

All tours start at 10am and last around 1.5 hours.

• June 6th
• August 7th
• October 3rd
• November 19th 

The black bin waste is sent to an energy from waste plant based in Ardley. Here the waste is incinerated to generate electricity. The tour will start with a presentation and then you will enjoy a guided tour around the plant.

Tours start at 10am and last around 2.5 hours.

• February 25^th
• April 11^th
• July 8^th
• October 31^st

Please let me know at: waste.team@southandvale.gov.uk if you are interested in attending any of the dates and I can reserve you spaces and send you more information about the day. Tours spaces are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Best Wishes,
Ellie

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There is a free bus service to Tesco Store on Tuesdays from West Hagbourne: 9.50 – Bus Shelter, Main Street, East Hagbourne: 9.53 – School, 9.56 – New Road Bus Shelter and returning from Tesco at 12.00 midday. This information is for guidance only and is subject to change without notice. Operated by Tappins Coaches.

There is the Community Bus to Wallingford on Friday’s too!  Starting from Windsor Crescent, East Hagbourne at 10.15am and returning from Wallingford at 1.15pm from the Market Square, by the Corn Exchange. You will need to register to use this service an obtain tickets, £2 each way, from our Post Office before you travel. This service has been commissioned by the Downland Villages Transport Group.

The 2018 St.Andrew’s Hagbourne Christmas Tree Festival is officially over for another year (although most trees will remain on view) and the vote counting is done.

As announced at the Ring and Sing on the last night of the festival, the three trees that were the favourites of the most people were . . .

1st The Knitwits (photo)

2nd Cat’s Whiskers (a first time sponsor)

3rd Hagbourne Pre-School

Well done to them, and to all of the talented groups and businesses that sponsored a tree this year.

More news to follow regarding the donation totals.

Happy Christmas from the Christmas Tree Festival and all at St. Andrew’s church.

Community Bus Service to Wallingford takes place on Fridays starting from Windsor Crescent, East Hagbourne at 10.15am and returning from Wallingford at 1.15pm from the Market Square, by the Corn Exchange. You will need to register to use this service an obtain tickets, £2 each way, from our Post Office before you travel. This service has been commissioned by the Downland Villages Transport Group.

Thirty beautiful Christmas Trees are festively decorated by local businesses, clubs and community groups for the duration of the festival. Visitors are invited to come along, enjoy the trees, have a home-made cake and refreshment and vote for their favourite.

Every year a wonderful programme of entertainment is put together to run alongside the festival so you can enjoy carols, music, bell ringing, concerts, plays, poetry and much, much more all in the surroundings of the trees. A full programme of events is shown below.

All proceeds go to the church and a local charity that is nominated each year.

For 2018, our charity is Be Free YC, the South Oxfordshire charity who do great work with youngsters who also have to care for relatives who are disabled, unwell or have other difficulties. Such young carers can become invisible in our communities, and they can miss much of the fun and friendship this is an important part of growing up. You can read more about Be Free YC at https://befreeyc.org.uk and we hope you can join us in supporting them.

Our festival is enabled by our generous patrons . . .

If you’d like to be involved either as a festival patron, a tree sponsor or an entertainer, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

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SODC has now reviewed our Neighbourhood Plan and you can read the key documents on their web site here.

A paper copy is also available to consult in St Andrew’s Church.

SODC has appointed an independent examiner and following the statutory publicity period, ending 4th January 2019, he will deliver his report.  Any comments received by SODC will be forwarded to the examiner.

A further review will be needed to incorporate any changes required by the examiner.  SODC will then publish a final version to go to a referendum by residents.

We expect the referendum to take place on Thursday 14th March 2019.

The full set of documents is bulky, but we encourage you to read at least the policies in the main report, Chapter 4.

The Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group

The East Hagbourne Community Shop has been nominated for a Countryside Alliance ‘Rural Oscar’!

Please support the nomination by signing the sheet that is inside the shop and encourage your friends too.

You can also support the nomination at:

http://www.countryside-alliance.org/campaigns/caawards/nominate/?utm_campaign=688376_Rural%20Awards%20-%205%20week%20reminder&utm_medium=dotmailer&utm_source=Countryside%20Alliance&dm_i=44G9,ER5K,1O28NK,1O9XY,1

Please vote before the 9th December.

The shop address to fill in the online form is:

114 New Road, East Hagbourne, Oxfordshire, OX11 9LD.

 

Monday 3rd Dec, or Fri 11th Jan @ 1930

To book your place, please email the Parish Clerk: easthagbourneparishcouncil@gmail.com