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A note from ARCC to club sponsors, 1881 Club members, and members and families.
“President Angie Murray and Aston Rowant CC would like to invite you to this year’s President’s Day at Aston Rowant CC on Saturday 11th September 2021.
As valued club supporters we would love you to come along to the club and enjoy a couple of games of cricket and a hog roast which is being supplied jointly by our president and the club.
The food will be available from 1430hrs.
There will be a Golden Oldies T20 match from 1100
Then the Presidents XI v ARCC XI from 1400
We hope to see as many of you there as possible.
Simon Tremlin
Chairman ARCC”
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“Children aged six to 13 will soon be able to join in musical groups in a series of new sessions at venues across the county on Saturday mornings.
The music groups are aimed at children who have been playing an instrument for at least a term and up to grade 5 and who are looking to develop their skills and performance with other players of similar ages. They will offer a fun, safe supportive atmosphere where children can make new friends and improve their playing by performing with others.
The 90-minute Saturday music centre sessions are available through school term times from 18 September and are available in Bicester, Oxford, Didcot, Thame and Witney.
Music centre instructors will offer expert tuition to allow the children in the sessions to develop their musical skills by playing as a group in an orchestral style. All of our instructors are DBS checked and risk assessments and safety precautions are being taken to reduce the risks of COVID-19 transmission.
Booking lessons is easy; parents can visit the council’s webpage, select the nearest venue and reserve a place. The groups will run on an ongoing basis through school terms. Participating children will need to bring their own instruments to the sessions.
The sessions will run each Saturday from 9am until 10.30am.
The new sessions come after school choirs and bands have not been able to rehearse together for more than a year, and children learning to play an instrument had to rely on remote instruction from their teachers.
URL : http://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/saturday-music-sessions/”
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A note from Oxfordshire County Council regarding the county’s libraries:
“Residents of Oxfordshire can look forward to the return of pre-pandemic opening hours at the county’s libraries from Monday, 6 September.
During the pandemic, hours were reduced to allow additional safety measures to be monitored by staff. As these have been eased over the past few months, evening and Saturday opening hours can be restored.
A few locations are exceptions to the resumption. Littlemore and Bampton libraries remain closed for planned refurbishment work. Old Marston remains on a click and collect service due to restricted space.
Measures remain in place across the libraries to reflect government guidance and safety messages from Public Health England. Users are reminded to keep socially distant from others when visiting and not to visit if you feel unwell. Alongside this, library staff are gradually reinstating the services that users value so much, including events, rhymetimes and book groups.
Residents can visit the county council’s library webpage to check the opening hours for their local library. The opening hours are also available on the library app (search Oxfordshire Libraries in the app store) and on Google business listings.
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URL : http://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/library-opening-hours/”
A note from SODC updating residents on garden waste collection:
“We regret to inform you that garden waste collections in our districts will remain paused at this time to ensure we can continue to provide core waste collections – rubbish, recycling and food – without major disruptions.
The garden waste service was suspended last month due to our contractor, Biffa, struggling with the national shortage of HGV drivers, and during that time we have been working hard to encourage Biffa to find solutions to reinstate the service.
We continue to work closely with our contractor, Biffa, to provide us with further information as to how they propose to reinstate their contracted services as soon as possible.
As soon as we are able to, we will update you on when the service will be resumed. Until that time we are asking you to continue to remain patient and thank you for your understanding.
Please could we ask you pass the news onto neighbours, especially those without access to the internet or social media.
We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience we know this is causing, and we apologise that this service has fallen beneath the levels you have come to expect. We have asked Biffa to provide options so they can make it up to anybody who doesn’t receive the service they should this year.
For more information on what you can do with your garden waste in the meantime please see our website.”
Update: Regarding the proposed changes to speed limits and a new chicane in Aston Rowant, OCC posted the link to the consultation late and as a result, the consultation will now close on 1 October.
The consultation is at https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/astonrowant20mph2021.
The parish council is proposing a new chicane at the junction of the B4009 and Aston Rowant Road. Further, the council proposes lowering the speed limit in Aston Rowant village from 30mph to 20mph.
Oxfordshire County Council as the overseeing authority has opened a consultation into the two proposals via https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk. The documentation regarding the proposal are in the attachments below.
Comments need to be lodged by 23 September 2021.
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Those claiming Single Person Discount on their council tax will shortly be asked to confirm whether they are still the only adult living in their property and therefore entitled to continue to receive the reduction. Incorrectly claiming this discount may be considered council tax fraud.
Letters will be sent to the registered council tax-payer at many of these properties, requiring them to confirm the current occupancy.
Recipients will have 21 days to respond by completing an online form or, if they don’t have access to the internet, by returning an optional paper reply. Failing to respond in time risks loss of the entitlement to the discount.
Anyone who claims the discount but has others living with them who are aged 18 or over who are not already disregarded for council tax purposes, such as students or carers, could be committing council tax fraud and could face the serious risk of prosecution. This could result in them receiving a fine, a criminal record or potentially more serious consequences if the fine is then not paid. They will also face the prospect of having to pay back all the discount that they wrongly received.
Those wanting to update their record or struggling to pay council tax should visit southoxon.gov.uk/counciltax or call 0345 302 2313.
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Over recent years, vehicle speeds exceeding the legal limits on roads in and around the parish of Aston Rowant have become an issue of considerable concern. So much so that your parish council (ARPC) has collaborated with Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) to address this problem head-on. The results of OCC Highways monitoring equipment in 2020 clearly demonstrated that action was urgently required to make our roads safer for all users.
Devices to control vehicle speeds are known as “traffic calming installations”. These methods come in various forms which are now familiar features on roads throughout the UK and include computer monitored average speed cameras; speed humps; road narrowing pinch points and chicanes, to name but a few.
The most recent application of traffic calming measures in the parish was building a chicane at the southern approach to Kingston Blount (just south of the junction of the B4009 and Kingston Hill/Stert Road). The effectiveness of this installation triggered the proposal for a chicane at the junction of the B4009 and the Aston Road village road, another busy location.
OCC therefore designed a similar construction for Aston Rowant, painted a provisional layout on the road surface, and on Tuesday 27th July built a temporary chicane of traffic cones to monitor the practicalities of such a future installation.
This test run was very successful and demonstrated that, even without full road signage, traffic speeds were significantly reduced, and junction safety was visibly improved.
For those not familiar with this form of traffic calming, chicanes regulate traffic speed by means of creating a serpentine curve in a road, added by design rather than dictated by geography. They slow traffic approaching a lower speed limit zone requiring them to give-way to oncoming vehicles heading towards a raised speed limit. The chicane proposed for Aston Rowant is in fact a mirror of the Kingston Blount installation, with similar proximity to the Kingston Hill junction as that proposed for the Aston Rowant village road.
Traffic from Kingston Blount approaching the 30mph stretch of road at Aston Rowant will be required to give-way to vehicles heading in the opposite direction. Kingston Blount bound traffic will be slowed down but have priority and flow uninterrupted past the junction.
Before finalising the design and precise location of any calming installation, and following test runs, OCC will conduct a consultation process which involves the police service, fire and ambulance authorities, and publishing information in local media. In the case of Aston Rowant, this process will also apply to the forthcoming implementation of a change of limit from 30mph to 20mph within the village itself and, beyond that, potentially extending the same reduction to 20mph on village roads in Kingston Blount.
Comments on all calming proposals are also welcomed from the general public, and to that end ARPC suggest that if you have any queries or comments on the current scheme please put them in writing to myself and I will share them with OCC in order to contribute towards their decision making procedure.
Cllr John Wyatt
Traffic Calming Coordinator for Aston Rowant
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