The Friends of Quarry

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.

Red valerian is a pretty red perennial flower often found in stone walls around Quarry. It is still in flower or just finishing now.

However, it is very destructive and will lift mortar and cause cracking in walls. We would recommend that it be removed to maintain our walls. 

The Headington Quarry History Group are holding a local history evening, entitled ‘Let the Children Play’ in the Masons Arms on the evening of 14 September.

More information is available on the flyer or in their Facebook group.

Headington Quarry Morris and Masons Apron are dancing in the Quarry on Monday 29 May (Bank Holiday Monday).

They will be dancing at the following times:

7:30pm – The Six Bells

8:30pm – The Masons Arms

More information is available on their poster.

This year’s Headington Festival takes place on Saturday 3 June and Sunday 4 June.

On Saturday 3 June during the morning and early afternoon there will be an extended market in central Headington. There will be extra stalls, entertainers and other attractions. The fun then moves to Bury Knowle Park where Oxford Round Table is organising an outdoor cinema, food and beer tent. Showings at 4pm and 7.30pm. Titles of films to be announced later.

Sunday’s event will take place in Bury Knowle Park from 12.30 until 5pm. There will be community stalls, entertainment, lots of food, sports to try, fun fair, tea and cakes, beer tent.

More information is available at on the festival website

Oxford Fiddle Group will be holding another of their popular concerts in the Village Hall on 14 April, starting at 2000. Entry is free and there is a licensed bar.

More details are available on their website and the event poster.

Headington Action are currently recruiting for a part-time activity researcher. More details are on their website.

An evening to celebrate, share and record the history of Headington Quarry.

This is the first event organized by the Quarry History Society. A group
of local residents who are interested in getting people together to
preserve and archive the incredible history of the area.

We welcome anyone with a story to tell about life in the Quarry. From
1823 – 2023!! This is a living history project.

So, if you would like to share photographs, documents, artefacts,
memories, family stories or are curious to know more, then please
come along.

When – Thursday 6th April – 7.00pm onwards
Where – The Function room @ The Mason Arms Pub, 2
Quarry School Place, Headington, Oxford OX3 8LH

Oxford City Council is consulting on the Oxford Local Plan 2040 Housing Need.  This consultation supplements the previous Preferred Options consultation undertaken in Autumn 2022 by seeking comments on the additional evidence related to housing need.  The consultation period runs from 13^th February until 27^th March 2023.

Housing need was discussed in general terms in the Preferred Options document, but no figure of need was included.  That was because the Oxfordshire Plan 2050 was intended to determine the housing need for Oxfordshire and apportion that to the districts, based on a spatial strategy.  However, work ceased on the Oxfordshire Plan and the updated Oxfordshire Growth Needs Assessment (OGNA) shortly before the City Council’s Local Plan 2040 Preferred Options consultation, and there was insufficient time to collect alternative housing need evidence before that consultation took place.   Alternative evidence has now been completed and is published as part of this consultation.  This evidence is the Housing and Economic Needs Assessment (HENA), jointly commissioned by Oxford City Council and Cherwell District Council and prepared by Cambridge Econometrics, Iceni and JG Consulting.  In addition to this, there is a Green Belt Assessment of Additional Sites.  Both documents are available to view in the list of evidence studies published on our website at www.oxford.gov.uk/localplan2040.  The consultation document can also be found at this link.

Comments on these documents can be submitted online, using our consultation portal, found here:  https://consultation.oxford.gov.uk/planning-services/oxford-local-plan-2040-reg-18-part-2-consultation/.   If you prefer to respond in writing or email, please email planningpolicy@oxford.gov.uk

Paper copies of the consultation materials are available to view in libraries.