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Planning applications on the web
Planning applications are detailed on the district's web site,
http://www.southoxon.gov.uk To see any current applications, click on Planning at the top right of the home page. Then click on View and make planning applications, roughly in the middle of the next page which appears. Then click on view current applications via the Planning Application Register which appears in the middle of the next page which appears. If you know the reference number click on Search by reference number, otherwise click on Search by location and date. In the search screen for search by location and date, select Garsington in the top box, then set the date range appropriately. You should get all the applications which have been registered in that date range.
Planning Applications coming up for July 6 2009 meeting -P09/W0558(112 Wheatley Road) , P09/W0500(78 Southend), P09/0449(149-151 Oxford Road)
Government publishes South East Plan 6/5/09. As expected this plan includes the proposed use of land south of Grenoble Road for 4000 homes. The plan is published at
http://www.gos.gov.uk/gose/planning/regionalPlanning/815640 See section C, sub-regional policies, and page 249 of this for the section on Central Oxfordshire.
Update 15/6/2009 SODC is now taking the government to court over this after legal advice persuaded them that they have a case.
Ramblers poster
See
here for the programme of the current Thame and Wheatley branch of Ramblers for July and August
New Waste Collection Services
From June 8 2009 waste collections will be changed. New Wheelie bins will lbe being delivered to households in the next few weeks. Garsington housholds have received their new bins this week April 15. For a fuller description of the new service click here
To see the letter sent to Gordon Brown on behalf of the parish council click here Feel free to write your own letter using this as a guide Garsington is a village in Oxfordshire, some 5 miles south east of Oxford. It is a village of hills and narrow roads. The ground rises from 200 feet at the foot of the hill to 431 feet at the highest point of the ridge. We have magnificent views in all directions, the Chilterns to the east, Oxford to the west and the Berkshire Downs with Wittenham Clumps to the south.
The village is home to over 2,000 people, and has no local shop or newsagent. However, it does have 3 pubs, an estate agents, car repair centre, hairdressers and a garden centre. Of the pubs two serve food daily, The Plough and the Three Horseshoes. It also has a local Church of England primary school that performs well in SATs. We have a fine Memorial Playing Field with a Sports and Social Club.
Our South Oxfordshire district councillor is Elizabeth Gillespie and on Oxfordshire County Council our interests are represented by David Turner. Our Member of Parliament is John Howells, successor to Boris Johnson, who has moved on to become mayor of London.