Alpha Launch Event

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Alpha Launch Event
Ed asked me to mention the annual Alpha Launch event is on Wednesday. This year the launch is at the college to make a bigger and more accessible space. They have a free meal and an exciting speaker – who has been in the news recently. Details are at abingdonalpha.org/launch.htm (it’s FREE but they need to know how many are coming).  Information about the speaker is on the facebook event page. I am a bit late posting this so hope there are still places for anybody interested.

Alpha is a weekly course, about 8 weeks long, that gives an introduction to Christianity and is taken at various venues by various of the churches in Abingdon. Ed, from the Community Church, led a course at Rosie’s Cafe in previous years.

Patisserie Pascal gone for good

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Patisserie Pascal
We have been spoilt over the last eight or nine years having the wonderful Patisserie Pascal just up the road. Pascal retired a few months ago and new owners took over, but they have not managed to continue the success. They closed a few days ago, and the shop will re-open as a different sort of retailer. Good luck to the new venture.

Outline Planning Permission sought for 900 homes

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Planning
The formal start of consultation for outline planning permission for up to 900 homes and 50 retirement homes north of Abingdon is underway. The plans can be found at this link or by searching P17/V0050/O on the Vale Planning Site – where comments can be made.

Start Consultation Period   13th January 2017
End Consultation Period    15th February 2017
Target Decision Date            2nd May 2017

According to the application form, the outline plans also include a local centre, a site for a primary school, a care home comprising 80 beds, children’s nursery, public house / restaurant, retail spaces, open space, and sports pitches (near Peachcroft Farm). There will be accoustic fencing for the A34 noise.

Access would be by 2 junctions onto Dunmore Road, and 2 onto Twelve Acre Drive. The approximate size of the site can be seen on the picture above. Detailed plans would be put forward in due course.

(There is another informal consultation process in progress, from another developer, for 200 additional homes on the circus field by the Wootton Road roundabout.)

A Soldier’s Tale

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It doesn’t seem long since we were remembering the centenary of the start of WWI.

There was a moving ceremony with a reading of the names from the Abingdon (Borough) Roll of Service August 1914 – June 1919, and a candle-lit ceremony round the War Memorial.
W Carter
At Abingdon Library there is an board telling of an on-going project telling A Soldier’s Tale through THE FIRST WORLD WAR, TOLD THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA AS IF IT WERE TODAY. The aim of the project is to capture the imagination of 13-18 year olds using a medium they know, understand and use.

Walter Carter, the soldier in the tale, is currently in a mental hospital undergoing treatment for shell shock.
W Carter
Above are pictured a group of Carters from Abingdon who died during WWI. They each had their story, which was not fiction, and cost them their lives.