The Friends of Quarry

The Headington Christmas Tree Lights will be switched on at 1630 on Saturday 3 December. More information is available on the Headington Action website.

The Headington Neighbourhood Forum AGM will be held on Wednesday 23rd November 7.30pm at the Baptist Church, Old High Street.

Please view the poster for more details. This is an important meeting as Headington Action seek to reinvigorate their Neighbourhood Forum and the Neighbourhood Plan.

In 2021, an application for a mobile mast on Quarry Road was turned down after objections by residents and our councillors.

A new application for a 15m mast at a location slightly further along Quarry Road has now been submitted as 22/02405/T56. You can view and make comments before 23 November 2022 on the Oxford City Council planning portal.

Although this is a new application for a slightly different site, we feel that the impact is the same and will be responding to the planning application in the same way as we did for the last one.

We have prepared a flyer to show the impact of the mast and to provide you with contact details for your local Councillors, so that you can contact them to give your views on this planning application

Oxford City Council is embarking on the development of a new Local Plan. The Local Plan 2040 will set out the planning strategy for meeting the needs of the city and once adopted, will be used in determining planning applications for a wide range of development. It will set out where new homes, businesses and community facilities will be built to make Oxford a better place to live, work and visit. It will also look at how we can protect the things that make Oxford special such as open spaces, ecological habitat and areas of heritage. It will guide how development happens, helping to support the transition towards a zero-carbon city, ensuring high quality design, being conscious of health and wellbeing, and addressing inequalities. 

The consultation can be accessed on the City Council website.

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting at 2000 on 17 November 2022 in the Headington Quarry Village Hall. The evening will include a lecture on the history of the area.

More information on Friends of Quarry is on our website and in our flyer.

The much-enjoyed Headington Festival returns on 3/4 June 2023. It is organised by a small and enthusiastic team of residents under the leadership of Headington Action. We need new people in the team. Tasks are interesting, not onerous, and it is a delight to see everything coming together.

We would love you to join us in one of these roles:

• Liaising with community and food stall holders.
• Creating publicity material (posters, leaflets etc).
• Recruiting and working with volunteers

No experience of Headington Festival needed. Just enthusiasm and a willingness to get involved. Involvement is during the months January to June only.

Please contact Richard at headington.action@gmail.com or phone 07802 215517 for more information.

Holy Trinity will be holding several events in October that all residents are very welcome to attend:

Sat 15th October – 3pm. ‘C.S. Lewis and Oxford’, Dr Michael Ward

Sat 29th October – 3pm. ‘The unlikely story of how Oxford invented the modern church’, Professor William Whyte.

A planning application to demolish the Crown and Thistle and build up to 9 flats was submitted last January. This was later changed to Planning in Principle to develop the site for up to 9 flats (questions of design, demolition etc to be considered in later applications).

The application was called in by local councillors and considered at the Planning Meeting of 20th Sept. Planning officers agreed that the owners had not made sufficient effort to maintain the pub as a going concern but recommended the application be approved.

Councillors considered that approving the application would set an unacceptable precedent and rejected the application. If approved it would signal to developers that a building could be left to decay in the hope that demolition and development would then be approved.

A multi-activity hub, including a community cafe and new toilets, is being proposed for Bury Knowle Park. The developer, Courtside, is carrying out a public consultation on the plans. More details and the survey are available online or in the attached flyer.

Those without internet access can complete the questionnaire at a library.

Oxfordshire County Council are proposing six trial traffic filters on key routes across Oxford to improve bus services and journey times, reduce walking and cycling accidents and improve air quality across the city. They are proposing to introduce them under an experimental traffic regulation order (ETRO) from summer 2023.

Anyone can provide feedback on the proposed trial by filling in the consultation survey, which will be open from 5 September (12 noon) to 3 October 2022 (midnight) and only needs to be completed once.

Further information, including the consultation brochure, supporting information and documents. as well as the location maps are on available on the consultation website.