Stuart let me know that work is beginning on a second field in North Abingdon. The site entrance has been started at the field between the Dunmore Road and the Oxford Road. This field is part of a larger development for 900 dwellings and 50 retirement homes, together with a local centre.
Work has also begun on widening entrances to the Dunmore Road / Wootton Road Roundabout.
This is being done as part of the development of 200 houses between Dunmore Road and Wootton Road.
If you look really closely in the top photo you will be able to see the trenches being dug for all the cabling for the houses that are all having solar panels on their roofs. Although it may be that the trenches are for the ground source heat pumps, or even the grey water harvesting? Of these three environmental sustaining features I’m not sure which one goes in first?
Daniel, you’re forgetting all the charging points they’ll be putting in (three per household) for the residents e-cars which will spend all morning quequing for the Marcham Interchange so they can get to Newbury. These houses will be Fully Future Proofed …
No sign of the diamond interchange to divert all the North Abingdon A34 Southbound traffic yet. Amother empty promise. More traffic mayhem for Abingdon
Well what a surprise there then. With ALL these thousand plus houses going up From Kingsgate to those off Dunmore road there will be excessive vehicles on these roads, not only the owners at least two per household, but all the delivery vehicles refuse trucks, buses etc. we need the A34 definitely updated at North Abingdon junction.
Janet – latest statement from Oxfordshire County Council on the diamond interchange is that there will be a public exhibition in March (presumably virtual?), planning application in April, work to start later this year and complete summer 2022.
The work at the East end of Dunmore Road is on the entrance to the site: the application for the actual housing is due to go to Planning Committee soon.
Hester: thanks for the heads up. If they can build a full diamond (or at least the missing two slip roads) in 15 months, they will have done very well. Here’s hoping.
15 months is shockingly bad, but normal. We have come to be grateful for normal.
It looks as if Layla is getting nowhere with the plans for the Lodge Hill intersection. Another case where developers renege on their promises.
Not sure I understand this Geoffrey, unless you are saying the County Council statement – which has been made in various places – is fiction.
I don’t think this is a party political issue.
Hester I think Geoffreys comment is in relation to the article published on the Oxford Mail website last week. Her comments contradict what others are saying!
https://t.co/506LnPhIbL
Ah, I’d missed that one. Yes, it would be good to have specific dates, but with a County Council election imminent I expect we will get them soon! The comments on the OM article are amazing – especially the person who thinks the VWHDC and SODC (neither of whom are responsible for the junction) are based in Abingdon!
So many people don’t seem to understand the responsibilities of the different councils, let alone where they are based, from which areas the councillors come and cover. They just refer to ‘the council’ for anything.
Are The Veil and SODC still looking to build their new HQ by Didcot train station, while there’s a perfectly good council office to ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ in Abingdon?
Am I the only one to notice that the work to widen the entrance to the roundabout is just undoing the work done a few years ago that reduced it to one lane. Another classic waste of our money.
Yes, I noticed that too Gillian. I think the one lane roundabout is to be put back to two as well.
More time and money wasted that could have been put to better use elsewhere.