Author Archives: Backstreeter

Fences added to 200-home-field in North Abingdon

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200 home field
Outline Planning Permission was granted for 200 homes in a field north of Abingdon on 13th February 2018. The land was already part of the local plan.
200 field
Last week fences were added, probably to allow an archaeological survey. Meanwhile the detailed plans are being reworked. No building work will happen until they are approved.
200 home field
The site is on the field bounded by Tilsley Park, the Wootton Road, Dunmore Road, and the A34 (pictured above.)

Detailed plans were submitted but withdrawn in October, pending a rethink.

Among the comments to those plans were the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissiong Group who said ‘This development would realise an extra 480 patients on average, for the GP’s in the area …‘ Before they could approve the plans extra financial support would be needed for the local health economy.

The Friends of Abingdon suggested that the developer had underestimated the walking distance to a number of local facilities.

The Vale urban design officer suggested the plan ‘presents a lacklustre scheme with a measure of spatial inefficiency’.

Christmas Tree Recycling / Twelfth Night

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Twelfth Night
Christmas is over for another year and people who got real Christmas Trees took them to the Market Place in Abingdon today.
Twelfth Night
Staff from Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council were recycling Christmas Trees for free. That is much better than nearby Henley Town Council where the Parks Team charge £2 a tree.
Twelfth Night
At Preston Road Community Centre decorations were taken off the Christmas Trees before they were put back in their boxes.
Twelfth Night
It was Twelfth Night today (5th January) and the lights did not come on in the town centre (apart from the ones in Bury Street).

Local Elections on May 2nd

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Local Elections
Caroline Lucas, of the Green Party, was in Abingdon this lunchtime. She spoke to members of the Green party, and some other interested people, and answered questions in the back room of the Brewery Tap.
Local Elections
She is here to support the Green Party candidate for the Abbey Northcourt ward, Cheryl Briggs, in the upcoming local elections on Thursday May 2nd. That is when we, the voters of Abingdon, choose a new Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council, and a Vale of White Horse District Council.

Now is the time that people are thinking of putting their name forward to become a councillor to try to make a difference for Abingdon, and parties are looking for candidates. People can either be selected to stand by a political party, or stand as an Independent. The following link has an introduction on how to become a councillor.

The Abingdon wards are as follows :
Local Elections
Abbey – 2 Town Councillors
Caldecott – 4 Town Councillors
Dunmore – 4 Town Councillors
Fitzharris Wildmoor – 1 Town Councillor
Fitzharris Ock – 2 Town Councillors
Northcourt – 2 Town Councillors
Peachcroft- 4 Town Councillors

Abbey Northcourt – 2 district councillors
Caldecott – 2 district councillors
Dunmore – 2 district councillors
Fitzharris – 2 district councillors
Peachcroft – 2 district councillors

Abingdon Milestones Quiz

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This quiz is about old style stone milestones to be found at the side of the road. They are not the milestones in project management.

All the milestones have a distance to Abingdon, and a distance to another place. So where would you find them?

Abingdon Milestones
A. Isley 9, Abingdon 2

Abingdon Milestones
B.  London LVIII, Abingdon II

Abingdon Milestones
C. Oxford 3, Abingdon 3

Abingdon Milestones
D. Oxford 1, Abingdon 5

I am no expert and have not attempted to date them. A website called A Short History of Waymarks does help. There is also a Milestone Society, founded in 2001, for milestone enthusiasts. Members’ interests also include tollhouses, turnpike history and canal milestones.