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Sofa dumped
01/08/22
A SOFA and armchair were dumped beside a road in Russell’s Water at the weekend. South Oxfordshire District Council, the waste authority, was informed.
Rail HQ bid
28/02/22
A NEW national body for the country’s railways could be based at Didcot. South Oxfordshire District Council is to submit an expression of interest to host the headquarters for Great British Railway, which will be responsible for setting ticket ...
£88,000 for deep cleans
04/07/22
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council is putting money into a deep cleaning project to tackle areas which need a spruce-up. It has set aside £88,000 of its Climate Action Fund to pay for extra work at nominated sites over the next nine months. ...
Councils to produce local plan together
05/04/21
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council is to produce a new joint local plan with a neighbouring authority. It has agreed to join forces with Vale of White Horse District Council less than four months after approving its current plan. The ...
Council rose to challenge
29/03/21
THE leader of South Oxfordshire District Council has reflected on a “challenging” year the first anniversary of the original coronavirus lockdown. Councillor Sue Cooper praised the council for acting quickly to establish a community ...
Now council declares ecological emergency
01/03/21
AN ecological emergency has been declared by South Oxfordshire District Council. It passed a motion presented by Sam Casey-Rerhaye, who chairs its climate and ecological emergencies advisory committee. It means the council will aim ...
Tax discount
22/02/21
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council is offering financial support to people on lower incomes who are struggling to pay their council tax as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. Residents who qualify for the means-tested council tax ...
Councils welcome axing of link road
THE leader of South Oxfordshire District Council has welcomed the cancellation of the £3 billion Oxford-Cambridge Expressway project. The Government scrapped the scheme last week, saying the cost of a direct road link between ...
Half-price parking for electric vehicles
09/11/20
PARKING rules could be eased for people who drive electric vehicles. South Oxfordshire District Council is considering offering them half-price permits and additional parking facilities in its car parks. It is also proposing ...
Tories want to cut cost of £18m council HQ
22/06/20
CONSERVATIVES are calling on South Oxfordshire District Council to rethink its plan to return to the site of its old headquarters in Crowmarsh Gifford. They argue that spending about £18million on the new building is ...
Grants for businesses
15/06/20
SMALL businesses are being invited to apply for a share of a £1.9 million fund rom South Oxfordshire District Council. Grant applications opened last week following the Government’s decision to provide a source of ...
Council to share new office with neighbour
19/10/20
THE new headquarters for South Oxfordshire District Council will be built at Didcot. The council was planning to return to the site of its old headquarters in Crowmarsh Gifford in a project costing about £18 ...
Councils urged to quit after High Court defeat
30/11/17
TWO councils have been urged to give up the fight after losing their latest bid to prevent 95 homes from being built on land between Henley and Shiplake. A High Court judge has once again refused to review ...
Village fears suburb effect
10/11/17
RESIDENTS of Shiplake fear their village could become a suburb of Henley after failing to stop 95 homes being built on land between the two. A High Court judge has refused to review a planning inspector’s ...
Council to rebuild HQ on old site by 2022
17/02/20
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council is hoping to rebuild its headquarters by the spring of 2022. It has been based in temporary offices at Milton Park, near Didcot, since 2015 following a fire which ...
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