The Friends of Quarry

Headington Action are running their Light in the Darkness campaign again this year, with free Christmas Lights being available.

More information is available on their poster, which includes dates of other key events in the run up to Christmas in Headington.

Oxford Fiddle Group are celebrating their 25th anniversary on 8 December in the Village Hall. More information is available on their poster.

Update: The grass has been mown and the weather is looking good for Saturday, so we are going ahead with the bulb planting to 7 October.

As mentioned in our recent newsletter, we will be meeting to plant an additional 500 tulip bulbs at the entrance to the Quarry to augment those planted in recent years.

Please join us at 1000 on Saturday 7 October at the entrance to Beaumont Road near the 6 Bells. (NB: The date in the newsletter was wrong), with a spade, to plant the bulbs. Children are welcome.

Building work is due to start at Holy Trinity on 9 October. More information, including timings for the closure of the Church Path during the works and contact details for updates are available online.

In order to fully reflect resident’s views when preparing our response to the planning application for change of use for the Chequers, we have prepared a survey to capture your input.

Please complete the survey as soon as possible, as the deadline for comments is 27 September.

Many thanks for sharing your views.

A planning application requesting change of use for the Chequers has been submitted. If approved. this application would change the use of the building from a mixed use public house (with associated dwelling house) to a dwelling house.

You can find details of the application, and comment on it, on the City Council Planning Portal. Residents comments can be made until 27 September 2023.

Friends of Quarry will comment on the application on behalf of residents, but we encourage you to comment individually as well. If you would like to share your comments with us, please email us.

Friends of Quarry have put together the following procedures to be followed if you want to complain about noise from any source.

If you think that the nuisance may be repeated we strongly advise starting a log of the events collecting the dates, length and level of the annoyance. This is especially important if the source in a business such as a pub.

Firstly the event should be reported to the City Council via Environmental Health or the Safer Oxford Partnership. You can also download the Noise APP to your phone from the Environmental Health pages and use this to record and report the noise – this will allow the Environmental Health Officers to act quickly.

If the source is a pub then it should be reported to the City Licensing Authority at
licensing@oxford.gov.uk or phoned in on 01865 252565.

In addition the problem can be reported to the police at licensing@thamesvalley.police.uk. This should be done after reporting to the council as is important as the police need to know how often any venue is causing a problem before they act. Alternatively the problem can be reported on the Police 101 number.