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District council appoints new chair  ); Jo Robb has taken on the role with David Turner selected as vice chairman.  She was appointed at the annual meeting yesterday (20) at the council offices in Milton Park, Abingdon.    Councillor Robb, who represents Woodcote and Rotherfield for the Green Party, said: “It is a great honour to have been elected chair by my peers on South Oxfordshire District Council. “I’d like to thank David Bretherton for his steadfast chairmanship over the past ...

Jobs at risk after council opposes lorries licence );  ); A ROAD repair firm’s bid to register more lorries in its fleet could go to a public inquiry after being opposed by South Oxfordshire District Council. Richard Hazell, who co-founded Hazell & Jefferies in 1971, wants permission to keep an additional 20 heavy goods vehicles and four trailers at his depot off Pot Kiln Lane, near Woodcote, where he is licensed for 13 HGVs and four trailers. He has also asked the Traffic Commissioner if he...

OPEN water swimmers and councillors are asking Thames Water to come clean about releasing sewage in the River Thames. In 2019, there were 83 discharges of sewage in Oxford according to Thames Water, and open water swimmers, boat owners and walkers do not think this figure is acceptable. Overflows are designed to be used when the sewer network is overwhelmed, for example by extreme weather, and release diluted wastewater into rivers rather than letting it back up into people’s homes. J...

Councillors divided as plan is approved on minister’s orders );  ); A BLUEPRINT for thousands of new homes in South Oxfordshire has been adopted by the district council. The decision followed a heated debate at a meeting on Thursday last week where some members claimed they were being forced by the Government to approve the Local Plan. The document, which provides for 23,550 new homes to be built by the year 2035, had been delayed for more than a year due to an argument between the council a...