The AGM of Abingdon-on-Thames Chamber of Commerce took place tonight and I believe Paul Townsend from E & R Goff will be chairman for a third year. Congratulations to Paul who has made lots of things happen.

Also tonight there was a meeting of South Abingdon Residents Plan to go through the final draft questionnaire that should soon be dropping through doors in that part of town. Volunteers to help drop off and collect questionnaires are still needed. Contact sarp@sarp.org.uk or neil@neilboston.co.uk .

There will be questions on the questionnaire about future housing in the area, but possibly before all the results are collated the future of the 160 homes in a field will need to be decided by an outside planning inspector. There is another public meeting this Saturday at the Guildhall at 10am to keep people informed. I believe comments can be left for the Inspector at this link.

And tomorrow the Abingdon Hydro are doing a presentation about their project. They have withdrawn their planning application in order to do more studies to minimise disturbance during the construction of the turbines near the weir. Somebody did ask whether they had put black bags round trees to stop birds nesting near the site and if so whether they can be withdrawn.