A homeless man A FORMER rough sleeper has started the New Year by moving into his own flat in southern Oxfordshire. Six new long-term homes have been provided for people who were living on the streets following the success of a nearly £100,000 pilot project called ‘Housing First’. It is run by South Oxfordshire District Council and Didcot-based not-for-profit Soha Housing in partnership with the homeless charity Aspire. Housing First offers former rough sleepers with complex needs the opportunity to be quickly rehoused into suitable accommodation where they receive intensive and long-term support provided by the non-profit organisation. This is different from the traditional ‘pathway approach offered to rough sleepers.
THE Premier Inn hotel and its 92-cover restaurant would go on a 1,360 sq m parcel of land opposite the station entrance, next to the public toilets. There would.
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A SLIPWAY that was filled in last summer was re-opened temporarily when it flooded following heavy rain.
Sorbon Estates removed the access to the River Thames in Thames Side at the bottom of Friday Street in Henley to create space for parking despite not having planning permission,
Resident John Whiting photographed the flooded slipway following days of heavy rain caused by Storm Bella last month.
He said he wanted the slipway reinstated permanently.
Mr Whiting, who lives in Orchard Close, said: “It’s part of Henley’s heritage that has been there for several hundred years.