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Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice – S14 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

Temporary Road Closure at Kingston Blount, 

 A request has been received by OCC from Sunbelt Rentals UK Ltd for a temporary road closure to apply to a section of Crowell Road whilst Openreach access their underground network to repair a faulty cable.

A temporary Notice is being made to implement the temporary closures and will operate from the 4 April 2022 up to and including the 6 April 2022. The closure will operate between 09:30 and 15:30 each day.

Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for those frontages within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works and liaison with the works supervisor.

The Planning Inspectorate have just allowed the appeal on Aston Cottage, 18 Church Lane, Aston Rowant, OX49 5SS.

The detail is under Planning > Planning Inspectorate Decisions.

Businesses based in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse districts in the hospitality, leisure and accommodation sectors are being urged to apply for support from the Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant fund.

The government, which devised the scheme, has given £1,482,084 to South Oxfordshire and £1,104,075 to the Vale of White Horse to help support local businesses that have been struggling financially due to the recent Covid-19 Omicron variant.

To apply, eligible businesses must have been open and trading from a property where they are responsible for paying business rates on 30 December.  The criteria of the grant is set by the government and rules of how the money is distributed cannot be changed by the council.  Successful applicants could receive between £2,667 and £6,000 depending on the rateable value of the property.

Business owners can find out the full criteria and complete an online application form via the district councils’ South and Vale Business Support website – svbs.co.uk up until midday on 18 February.

Businesses can also stay up to date with all government grants given to the district councils by signing up to the South and Vale Business Support newsletter via their website.

Just a reminder of the New Year Parish Walk.

More detail is below – click on the title below the image.

The route has been shortened to remove the muddiest of sections of the walk.

If you’ve not yet pledged for FTTP – full fibre broadband to your home – could you please consider doing so?

We’re at 90 percent of the pledges required and so close.

Remember – FTTP is about speed, reliability, potential cost savings as residents no longer need a physical phone line (unless they want to keep it) or may find a better deal, and making homes more saleable.

BT, for example, offers a number of deals – see the attachment below – that includes a pay as you go phone line with FTTP and download speeds of 150mb for £35 a month. For many, that download speed will be between three and five times faster than they presently have with a copper connection – and it’ll be more reliable.

And being mid-contract should not be an impediment to pledging; a quick call to the current provider should confirm that an upgrade is possible.

To pledge visit: https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/fibre-community-partnership/connect-my-community.