No Legal Challenge … but no building yet

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A few weeks ago a group of residents took a petition to the Vale of White Horse District Council asking that the council appeal against the decision of the planning inspector to allow 159 homes to be built in a field alongside South Abingdon.

Legal advice has been taken and the 2 legal experts judge that The Planning Inspector’s decision could not be challenged on legal ground. He allowed the scheme to go ahead because the Vale of White Horse District Council did not have a five year housing plan in place as required by the the NPPF – National Planning Policy Framework, voted in by the coalition government as a way to quickly free up land for house building.
159 Houses
The Planning Inspector had also considered the main objection, traffic, and made sure that traffic mitigation measures go ahead before any development.
159 Houses
So now it is all down to whether the traffic mitigation measures (those extra pedestrian lights) suggested by the developers are allowed by Oxfordshire County Council. That is not a foregone conclusion given that it has to go through public consultation. So expect a story about that in the not too distant future.

Scooting enthusiasts descend on Abingdon-on-Thames

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Scooting from Abingdon to East Challow
At midday today Abingdon-on-Thames Market Place looked like a bank holiday seaside town in the 1960s thanks to the Abingdon Bad Company who invited other scooter groups to an Inter County Rideout from Abingdon to East Challow.
Scooting from Abingdon to East Challow
Next weekend, sees the August Bank Holiday ride to the Isle of Wight National Rally, so today was a good chance to try out the scooters and raise some money for charity.

Abingdon Rugby 7s 2013 – with ladies

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The Abingdon Rugby 7s competition day started back in 1956 at the Hayle’s Meadows Ground, still undergoing development at the time and due to be shared by rugby, hockey and cricket clubs. Abingdon Rugby are now well established at Southern Town Park. Abingdon Hockey play at Tilsley Park. Cricket and Football are at Hayle’s Meadow.
Rugby 7s 2013
This year, 2013, saw the first ladies Rugby 7’s competition. Eight ladies teams competed for the George Dimond Cup in memory of one of the stalwarts of the club.
Rugby 7s 2013
Radio Abingdon XTRA were broadcasting the proceeding from the back of a van, next to the club house. They had intended broadcasting from the clubhouse but it was too noisy.
Rugby 7s 2013
In Rugby 7s there are far more tries scored than in the larger game with 15 players. Each team plays a number of short matches and the best scoring teams play off for the trophies.
Rugby 7s 2013
Abingdon RUFC 7s can be seen here, in yellow and green, just about to score a try.
Rugby 7s 2013
After scoring a try the player then tries to kick the ball back over the uprights from behind.
Rugby 7s 2013
Rugby 7s has all the parts you would expect of a game of rugby: lineouts, scrums, offsides, tries etc. .

It just happens much quicker.

Community Shop – Organisations looking for Volunteers

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Volunteering
At the Community shop in Abingdon today there were a number of organisations looking for volunteers.
Volunteering
Didcot Railway Centre, for example, always need volunteers, whether as engine drivers, guards, signalmen, ticket office, making the teas, or, in this day and age, to help write and review policies that keep us all safe. So there are lots of opportunities.
Volunteering
I know OCVA already as I went to their offices near the police station in Oxford a few weeks back on behalf of something I’m involved with. They support voluntary organisations and try to match volunteers with organisations and help give lots of advice.
Volunteering
The Nasio Trust were also there. I remember buying a small rubber brick from them about ten years ago. The brick was a nice to have little toy but the money from such small bricks helped to finance the building of an orphanage for children orphaned by H.I.V. Since then the Nasio Trust have carried on doing lots of projects that not only aim to help over there but also motivate young people over here, giving them a new perspective on life.