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The parish autumn litter pick is being held, this year, over the weekend of 27/28th November.
The Saturday morning pick will cover Kingston Hill while the Sunday morning will see Aston Rowant and the A40 and B4009 covered.
All are welcome to help (so long as they’re over 16). Each pick will start at 1000hrs and should only take two hours at most.
For more details contact either Parish Clerk or Steven Sowerby – or .
How fire and rescue service keep us safe and well over the next four years is being planned right now. Changing how safety advice is delivered, reducing call outs and working more with businesses to reduce risk are just three of the things the fire service is looking at.
Take a look at what’s planned for the next four years and complete the short survey to tell us what you think. https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/crmp-2022-26.
The consultation closes 15th December
A new campaign has started across South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse to highlight the issues and dangers of Nitrous Oxide, more commonly known as laughing gas.
The campaign will see #NoLaughingMatter stencils painted across the districts and there will also be a short online quiz, with a £25 Nando’s or Costa voucher up for grabs.
Most will have seen the small silver canisters discarded in public areas, such as parks and high streets. Filled with Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, they contain the second most used recreational drug among young people in the UK aged 16-24.
Laughing gas is a psychoactive substance – when inhaled it slows down the body’s response time, which can lead to fits of laughter, dizziness and feeling relaxed. However, it can also cause paranoia, hallucinations, and headaches, and if too much laughing gas is inhaled, the user could suffer shortness of breath or even pass out, potentially putting their life at risk. When discarded in public areas, the cannisters also cause a litter nuisance.
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse District Councils have launched the #NoLaughingMatter campaign to raise awareness of laughing gas and the risks of using it, and are encouraging residents to report any cannisters they find and to seek advice/support where needed.
#NoLaughingMatter – to find out what you need to know about laughing gas and to enter the competition to win a £25 Nando’s or Costa voucher – visit southandvale.gov.uk/nolaughingmatter
(Terms and Conditions apply – entries close at 11:59pm on Sunday 14 November 2021).
If you see anyone using laughing gas, or notice canisters discarded in a public area, please report it by contacting the Community Safety Team at or by calling 01235 422590.
For advice and help about laughing gas please Talk to Frank.
Just a reminder that parking enforcement in Oxfordshire is now run by the county council and a contractor rather than the police. See the attached for what is and is not permitted.
The normal garden waste collection schedule in South Oxfordshire will resume on 1 November and so from that day onwards, residents can put their brown garden waste bins out on their normal collection day in their recycling week every fortnight.
As this coincides with the scheduled Extra Garden Waste Week residents are entitled to put out one extra bin’s worth of garden waste that week too.
To make up for the disruption to the service SODC is extending customers’ current subscription to the service by three months.
There is more information at southoxon.gov.uk/gardenwaste.
During November Oxfordshire County Councils household waste recycling centres will be closing for two days to carry out a deep clean and essential maintenance. This includes jet washing the sites and structures, repainting lines and safety areas as well as other general works.
Oxfordshire County Council will be shutting each of its recycling centres for two days at a time – although never at the same time. Residents are asked to plan ahead for these closures, ideally holding on to waste until the site reopens, or if that is not possible, visiting one of the neighbouring sites.
The closing dates are:
All closures are on quieter midweek days to minimise disruption and sites will reopen at 8am the following day.
More information can be found online at www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wasteclosure.
Residents with van or trailer permits can use these at any of the HWRCs.
Following a court ruling yesterday, the parish council is urging residents with CCTV to use caution so that only their properties are surveilled and that the privacy of others is maintained.
The detail of the ruling is on the BBC here.
Next week a decision will be made by Oxfordshire County Council on whether to lower the speed limit in urban areas and village streets across the county.
Pilots are already underway, but taking this step in other parts of the county would, says the council, help make roads safer and more pleasant for those who are walking or cycling. If agreed, towns, parishes and villages will be asked to apply if they are interested.
More detail is available here
Note: Aston Rowant has just been granted a 20mph limit for village side roads. This may help the parish council bring there same to Kingston Blount.
Oxfordshire County Council has approved the parish council’s traffic calming applications – to lower the speed limit in Aston Rowant (excluding the B4009) to 20mph, and also for the chicane on the B4009 by the turn in Aston Rowant village.