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The Aston Arms – held in Aston Rowant church – is to reopen New Year’s Eve from 1800hrs until 0100hrs on New Year’s Day.
See the attachment below for more information.
In summary, inexpensive drinks, friends and neighbours, and no need to drive…
A guide on SODC’s services over the festive period when offices are closed to the public:
Abbey House – reception at Abbey House will close from 4pm (phone lines at 4.30pm) on Friday 23 December and will reopen on Tuesday 3 January.
Waste collections – for all you need to know about waste collections over the Christmas and New Year period – including the changes to the collection dates and what to do if collections are disrupted – please see here.
Housing – if you know anyone who is at immediate risk of being made homeless while offices are closed, please contact the out-of-hours service, which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – 01235 422410.
If you see someone sleeping rough and in an emergency situation, you can call Streetlink on 0300 500 0914.
Planning – any planning applications or post submitted after we close for Christmas, including electronic submissions, will be treated as having been received on the next working day, Tuesday 3 January 2023.
Council tax and benefits services – if anyone needs urgent help during the holidays the council tax or benefits phone lines will be open as usual between 28 and 30 December – call 0345 302 2313.
Emergency Situations – for details of what to do and who to contact during an emergency, visit here.
Some may have seen vans in the parish from broadband firms other than Openreach – Trooli, Airband and Gigaclear for example.
Please be careful before signing up with them; if you’ve validated a government Gigabit voucher then you are obligated to use an Openreach linked supplier – a full list is here – within two months of the scheme going live.
If you sign up with a company that uses their own network you could be liable to repay the value of the Gigabit voucher – £1500 if you pledged as a resident or £3500 if you pledged as a business. See here for more detail.
As for the Openreach scheme, the information I’ve been given is that we should see the FTTP complete by June 2023.
Cllr. Adam Bernstein
The latest issue of the Parish Notes is available on this website.
Navigate to Your Community > Parish Notes.
The financial challenges facing Chinnor Village Centre were highlighted on BBC South this lunchtime (Tuesday 29 November).
If you want to know more or understand how you can help click here for the programme – go to around 3 minutes 40 in.
As some may know, the centre is running a crowd funding initiative to raise funds. It provides much needed services for Chinnor and surrounding area. The detail is here.
A note from Chinnor Village Centre:
“Dear Friends and Members of the Chinnor Village Centre.
At our recent public meetings we have shared with you the difficult state of finances at the village centre as a result of Covid-19 lockdowns, inflation and the withdrawal of most support from local government.
The Trustees are actively seeking new sources of funding to secure the future of the village centre.
We did mention at the last public meeting that we would be starting a crowd funding appeal to raise funds to secure the immediate future of the village centre.
We would like to advise you that this campaign is about to start. A flyer will be sent to all addresses in Chinnor, Aston Rowant, Kingston Blount, Crowell, Henton, Towersey, Sydenham, and Lewknor and 200 businesses in Thame.
A copy of the flyer is attached (see below).
We hoping to get coverage of our crowdfunding initiative on local media. The local BBC station are visiting next Monday.
Please donate if you are able and tell friends, family, colleagues and anyone you think might be interested in saving the great community asset that the is Chinnor Village Centre.
Thank you very much for your support.
Cindy Bull
Trustee
Phone 01844 353733
Web www.chinnorvillagecentre.org Email
High Street, Chinnor, Oxford, OX39 4DH Registered Charity No: 1007949″
As part of the application process for reception entry to infant and primary school, OCC is advertising the need for parents and carers of children born between 1 September 2018 and 31 August 2019 to apply for a school place.
If any parents or carers have any questions, they should visit the primary application web page which has all the information they need plus a link to the online application form: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/primaryadmissions
The School Admissions Team can be contacted direct on 0345 241 2487 or at if applicants require any further help.
The deadline for receipt of completed school applications for Reception is 15 January 2023.
Residents across South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse have the chance of winning a hamper worth £100 by putting their Christmas recycling knowledge to the test.
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils have launched a new quiz which aims to help encourage people to put the correct items into their domestic recycling bin over Christmas and to reduce the amount of contamination.
During 2021/22, more than 2,600 tonnes of kerbside recycling across the two districts, or an average of 8.5 per cent of all recycling collected, had to be rejected as it is had been contaminated with non-recyclables!
The problem is at its worst over the Christmas period when people leave out a lot more rubbish. Last year this resulted in 434 tonnes of recycling being rejected between December and January.
Nappies, food and black bin bags are the worst contaminants. However, so-called ‘wishcycling’ also causes problems – this is where people put in items that they hope are recyclable, but which should actually go in the waste bin, such as broken drinking glasses, plastic Christmas decorations and plastic sweet wrappers
Cllr Sally Povolotsky, Vale of White Horse District Council Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency and Environment, said: “Christmas is when people have the most waste, so it is the best time to remind people to put only recyclables in the green bin. If recycling is too contaminated it has to be rejected at the recycling sorting facility, and a whole lorry load of items will be wasted.
“If recycling is clean and is made up of the right stuff, it can be sold on to companies to be made into new products.”
Cllr Sue Cooper, South Oxfordshire District Council Cabinet Member for Environment, Climate Change and Nature Recovery said: “Recycling plays a major part in reducing the amount of rubbish going into black bin which helps reduce waste overall which is our ultimate aim.
“If you take part in the quiz, you can find out how much you know, or don’t know… about Christmas recycling, and those with the highest scores will also be put into a draw to win a wonderful hamper full of reuse and zero-waste goodies.”
To take part in the quiz for the chance to win the hamper, and for more information on Christmas waste, reuse and recycling head to southoxon.gov.uk/christmaswaste / whitehorsedc.gov.uk/christmaswaste
The quiz closes at midnight on Sunday 8 January 2023.
Spotted woodpeckers in the dead tree at Fiveways are a new sighting – they are shy but very noisy when woodworking.
There is a video on this website – go to Your Community > Fiveways Corner.