A COVID-19 community response group has been left homeless for almost a year after it was blocked from using three community centres. At the start of the pandemic Didcot’s Great Western Park Residents’ Association group was launched to help provide food boxes, deliver prescriptions, and offer phone calls for isolated people. However, unlike other Covid community groups it was unable to use the community centres in the Great Western Park area and at one point it was left to use a shipping container. The new Didcot estate is home to three community centres; Northern Neighbourhood Community Centre, and two new empty centres, but when a national lockdown was introduced the council shut all three.
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Wallingford Accessible Boat Club (WABC) makes boating possible for disabled people in Wallingford and the surrounding area. The boat club had plans with Oxford University Boat Club to use the Fleming Boat House site; however, those plans have fallen through despite the club gaining planning permission causing the club to dramatically rethink its plans for a new site. John Jenkins MBE, Chair of Trustees WABC, explained that after two years of discussions with Oxford University Boat Club the plans were ‘terminated’. He said: “At the end of last year we faced a major disappointment when our discussions with the Oxford University Rowing Clubs based at Fleming Boat House were abruptly terminated.
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SONNING Common Parish Council is to spend £30,000 on legal representation at an inquiry into a development it opposes.
Inspired Villages appealed after being refused planning permission for a new retirement village in Blounts Court Road, opposite the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre.
Its application was rejected by South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, in June.
The appeal will be heard at an inquiry in front of a planning inspector in April.
The parish council opposes the plans on the grounds that the development would be “excessive and inappropriate” and contrary to the village’s neighbourhood plan.
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A PUB in Henley has received support from town councillors for a new garden and terrace area despite opposition from neighbours.
Brakspear has applied for permission to convert an “under-used” parking area at the Bull on Bell Street into more space for customers.
It says the area has already been used in this way during the coronavirus pandemic to make social distancing easier.
But residents wrote to South Oxfordshire District Council, the planning authority, to oppose this becoming a permanent arrangement. They were worried about the noise from music and customers coming out of the pub in the early hours of the morning.