Only a few days to go now. Town centre businesses are voting on whether to become a BID (Business Improvement District) for the next five years. The Yes Campaign has put out banners,
and window displays.
All businesses should have received a voting paper, and they need to be sent to Electoral Services by 5pm on Thursday, 29 October 2015 in order to count. The result will be announced on Thursday.
The Yes campaign’s presentations can be seen at abingdon.bid.
Revised plans have been submitted to the Vale of White Horse for the Abingdon Hydro, the community funded project to generate electricity from the River Thames in Abingdon.
Revised plans have been resubmitted because, after the detailed design, the generator house will need to be larger than the original design.
Potential contractors will also need easy access to the site, and so a temporary road from Audlett Drive, and a temporary bridge, (alongside the current footbridge), have been sketched in as part of the plans.
You can see the plans at at P15/V2335/FUL
The government have given until September 2016, for projects with a long lead time like this one, to be generating electricity to get the enhanced ‘feed in tariff’ for generating electricity. Any later and the project’s financial viability would be in question.
Construction is expected to take 6-8 months. Time is now of the essence for these revised plans.
Most of the old gravel quarrys in the South Abingdon, and Radley Lakes Area, have either become lakes, or been filled with waste and landscaped.
There is now a nature path through the big old waste dump off Oday Hill Lane, just to the south of Abingdon.
Nearby there is still a working quarry beside the Sustrans National cycle way.
Bright new signs warn lorry drivers of the need to drive carefully because of the Sustrans Cycle Route.
Re-style a new Traditional Turkish Barber has opened in Abingdon.
The first Turkish barber has been doing well and there is room for more. This is not so much competition, more of an overflow.
There are lots of men out there who want to look smart. And so traditional barbers shops are doing well in 2015. Three new barbers have opened in Abingdon in the last year and a bit.