In a previous report on Albert Park, I showed how scaffolding had been put around the Conduit House monument and suggested the roof needed repairing. Ben has sent in pictures showing some hoarding. The company are stone masons. This leads me to believe the stones are being repaired and restored.
They will use lime mortar rather than modern Portland cement mortar, as the stones can breathe and last longer with lime mortar.
The people of Abingdon are invited to comment on three more topics for the neighbourhood plan. They are:
* Travel, access and movement (A 20 MPH limit has already been requested by Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council. The neighbourhood plan has a map of proposed changes to encourage cycling and pedestrians along many of the town’s through roads. )
* Business and employment (Allow more integrated employment close to people’s homes. This is in addition to the current business parks, shopping areas, schools and health centres.)
* Families and young people (Encourage pupils to walk and cycle to school with play-on-the-way schemes and hangout places.)
People can still comment on the other three topics.
After this consultation, the neighbourhood plan will be submitted for an independent examination to ensure it is complete.
The plan would then be put forward to an Abingdon-wide referendum next year. If adopted, the plan would influence planning decisions and help set the agenda for council actions and decisions over the next fifteen years.
To comment on any of the topics, visit https://www.abingdon-neighbourhood-plan.org/.
The road to Abingdon Lock and nearby buildings and farmland reopened yesterday after a few weeks when the road was resurfaced.
The road is now available to tractors and other vehicles used to harvest wheat in the adjacent field where work began today.
The combine harvester cuts down the crop, separates the grain from the stalks and every so often shoots the grain into an adjacent tractor-trailer.
BBC News reports ‘England had its driest July since 1935, with parts having the least rainfall on record, the Met Office has said.’
The amount of water flowing over Abingdon Weir is the lowest I have seen. Sedges are taking over upstream from the weir.
Your bathroom taps create more white water than Abingdon Weir. More water is going through Abingdon Lock, as the gates open for boats, than over the weir.
The River Ock flows slowly, and sedges impede more of the stream.
Low river levels are bad for wildlife and agriculture.