The scaffolding – in place since Easter – has been removed from 30-32 Stert Street and once again it’s easy to see and get inside the Oxfam shop.
Although the cleaning of the lower part of the building is still to do, the upper part of the building looks transformed after renovation and cleaning.
A planning application for The Ox Pub, 15 Oxford Road, Abingdon, has been published on the Vale of White Horse Distrct Council (VWHDC) system, pending a decision in November.
The plans show illuminated signs, enlarged front window, and cash machine, instead of the Ox’s former horns.
In the narrative the application states that planning permission is not required to change a pub to a shop. However some justification is given … the Tesco Express will be in line with the VWHDC Local Plan published in 2006 as it will keep shopping facilities in a designated VWHDC shopping area on the Oxford Road.
They go on to say that the new shop will be next to a Chinese Restuarant, Off Licence, Laundrette and Motor Spares company.
The Off Licence could also be better described as a family run convenience store if you look inside.
Sorry to see Thorntons Close on Saturday. The town centre looked very busy with the French Market on the Market Place, but at 5:30 Thorntons took down their displays for the final time.
In June Davis Tate acquired Buckell and Ballard’s Abingdon office on the High Street. Over the summer the bay windowed office was repainted. The Bus Stop got damaged a week or so ago.