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South Abingdon Local Plan – Launch Event

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South Abingdon Local Plan
At Preston Road Community Centre today residents were invited to take part in the first part of the formation of a plan for the area. The Mayor dropped in to wish everybody well.
South Abingdon Local Plan
Children could draw their big ideas for the area…
South Abingdon Local Plan
Adults were given post it notes to put down their thoughts. From an initial look at the results, I would say that green spaces (parks and river and walks) were seen as good in the area, while traffic, and youth facilities, needed improvement. But lots more work needs now to be done analysing the detail.

There is a choice at 8:55 am

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8:55 am
Drayton Road at 8:55 am. The traffic arriving at the Caldecott Road roundabout is beginning to flow at a more reasonable rate now the school rush is about over.
8:55 am
At the other end of Caldecott Road the traffic going over the Iron Bridge is still slow.

Neither route out of South Abingdon has right of way. Nothing has been done to improve the situation in the last years. It has become clear that there is no easy solution. Many ideas have been put forward and considered. Proposals have either been considered too expensive, too dangerous, or likely to hold up cars on more major routes.

Winding up Action4Abingdon

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Action 4 Abingdon
The final post appeared on the action4abingdon forum 3 days ago saying “… As you know we created the forum as a vehicle to lobby for improvements to the then newly implemented Abits scheme. This, along with our 250 business signature petition and the Independent Traffic Report resulted in no less than 12 significant changes to the layout.

The forum soon became a good platform for all things Abingdon and has had some lively debates on various subjects, however, nothing lasts forever and so I think it’s time to wind the thing up…”

Needless to say there are still challenges facing Abingdon. But the forum showed that many people cared passionately for the town from various political, and non-political persuasions.

There’s no chaos Here

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Newspapers had headlines about snow chaos elsewhere in the country.
Snow
Here in Abingdon there was some light fresh snow. This picture of East St Helen Street early yesterday morning shows what snow there was. Most of it has gone again now.
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The early morning traffic from South Abingdon is there whether there is snow or not.