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For several days there has been an 'abandoned' pink bike lying on the bank by the path leading up to the church porch - it looks practically full size - an Apollo Recall, which has number 84 on the front forks. I have had no responses to a general enquiry and, if no one shows any interest, John Rounce has kindly offered to take it to one of the Faringdon bike shops as they may be able to put it to good use.
Sylvia 07923 563662 Hello all, I am hoping to do a monthly drop off .If you can spare tins, rice, pasta, biscuits, cereal, uht milk etc for Oxford Asylum.
They al Please bring them to Clayton Villa by 18th of each month. Thank you, Sally tipple 244318 Our U3A returned to the Corn Exchange with a fascinating talk by Alison Mees, “Living the African Dream”. Her talk was presented in a hybrid form, to the audience in the Corn Exchange and to those members at home, via Zoom. Those members in the Corn Exchange enjoyed watching her amazing photographs and listening to her tales of life in Zambia, Malawi, Kenya and Tanzania. We had not met formally since March 2020, but today was a great afternoon and everyone commented that it was so nice to see friends face to face again. At the end of an excellent talk, we all enjoyed tea/coffee and superb cakes from Sadlers, which was an unexpected treat.
Hand sanitiser was available and everybody felt comfortable with the social distancing measures in place. Next month will be organised in a similar style – come and see for yourself and catch up with friends, although we cannot guarantee cakes every time! We are aware that not everyone feels comfortable or able to come out for such events, so, for those people, please continue to join in on Zoom from your own home. On Wednesday, we delivered a mountain of food and other provisions donated by the village for people arriving from Afghanistan.
Oxford Asylum Welcome were very grateful! Please see their note below, with thanks again for everyone's generosity. Dear Richard I wanted to write straight away to thank you and your whole community for the incredibly generous food donation that you brought to Asylum Welcome today. This is a great boost to our stocks and very, very much appreciated. It is wonderful that your whole village has come together in this way to support refugees and asylum seekers. I can't thank you all enough! Very best wishes Janet -- Janet Stewart Volunteer Food Bank Coordinator Asylum Welcome Unit 7, Newtec Place Magdalen Road Oxford OX4 1RE 01865 722082 www.asylum-welcome.org Reminder - Next Saturday, 25th September at 5pm
Village Barbecue at the Vicarage Just to remind everyone that we would love you all (children included) o come to our village barbecue at the Vicarage next Saturday. Do come and join Maureen for a sociable evening - including burgers, hot dogs and cake! Wine is also provided, as are soft drinks if you prefer (or are under age!). If your preference is for beer, lager, cider or anything other, please bring your own. You don't have to be a church-goer. Maureen is the Vicar for the whole parish and more three days a week. The rest of the time she is a villager - one of us. She has already joined our WI and is keen to get to know more of you, so do come along. Although the current forecast is favourable, there is a marquee ready in case of inclement weather so that need not prevent you coming. We hope to see as many of you as possible. Thanks to those who have already been in contact. If you haven't already done so, it would be useful to know if you intend to come ([email protected] or 01367 241632, or any other member of the PCC) so that we don't run short! Pat and the PCC members (Sylvia, Jane and Jennifer) In 2019 the government decided that using Natural Gas for heating and hot water was no longer compatible with their net zero emission commitments for 2050. They therefore announced the intention to prohibit the installation of gas and oil boilers in all new domestic properties from 2025. Eventually all existing gas and oil boilers will be phased out and the Committee on Climate Change (the government’s independent advisor) has said that we will need to install new boilers that use clean hydrogen or electric powered heat pumps. There is currently no detailed plan for either of these possibilities.
The Greener Great Coxwell group has been investigating a community owned, sustainable and secure energy project that would provide heating and hot water for the whole village. With your support, we believe the objectives of such a scheme could be to –
The scheme would potentially use a ground source heating system powered by a solar PV installation. Heat distribution would be through an insulated pipe network connected to each participating home via a small heat transfer unit. Similar schemes are common on the continent and several are under construction or in planning locally, for example at North Aston and Upper Heyford in north Oxfordshire and at Swaffham in Cambridgeshire (https://heatingswaffhamprior.co.uk ). Households not wishing to participate would not be affected in any way. To help with our understanding and potential for such a scheme, we became members of the Low Carbon Hub (https://www.lowcarbonhub.org/), the Oxfordshire organisation working to promote Community based and sustainable energy sources, and the South East Energy Hub (www.energyhub.org.uk), a collaboration of Local Enterprise Partnerships working to support local energy projects in south-east England. The latter provides grants for feasibility studies and business development via the Rural Community Energy Fund, which we would hope to take advantage of. We have also made contact with other projects including Heating Upper Heyford (https://heatupperheyford.wixsite.com/website) and held discussions and taken expert advice from several renewable energy consultants. All agreed that our scheme is potentially viable and worthy of your consideration and we are therefore writing to you asking for an indication of support from as many villagers as possible to enable us to progress to a grant funded research stage. To support us please go to our website and complete an expression of interest form at www.greenergreatcoxwell.com or e-mail [email protected] for more information. We will be manning a stand at the Great Barn Festival on 18-19th September and on 25th at Faringdon’s Great Green Day in the Faringdon Corn Exchange between 10:00-1:00. Later we will be arranging meetings or Zoom calls to discuss with anyone interested. Expressing an interest is all that is required at this stage. Your expression of interest does not imply any other obligation or commitment. At the moment details of a scheme are difficult to predict – the first and second rounds of grant funding are specifically to engage consultants to assess the project's feasibility, keep the community involved and plan the scheme in detail. However, we have some pointers from existing schemes:
A comparable but slightly larger scheme is in progress at Swaffham in Cambridgeshire which is expected to sign up 150 households. You can get details of a more advanced project from their website - www.heatingswaffhamprior.co.uk . We hope you will be interested in this scheme and will support us in seeking a research grant by completing an expression of interest form at the Great Barn Festival, visiting our website at www.greenergreatcoxwell.com or e-mailing [email protected] for more information. Thank you, Annabelle Zinovieff, Ken Hirons, Ian Mason, Karen Mason, Margaret O’Donohoe, Richard Benwell, Sophie Stainer, Jacqui Russell HAVE YOUR SAY ON HOW YOUR VIEWS ON PLANNING ARE CONSIDERED
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils are preparing a joint Statement of Community Involvement (SCI). The SCI sets out how they will consult on planning applications and planning policy, including the joint Local Plan. They want to make it as easy as possible for people to get involved in the planning process, so they’re asking you about their draft SCI. It contains details of how they plan to work positively and proactively with their communities to ensure people's voices are heard and sets out how they plan to make sure you can access the right information as easily and early as possible to help you come to your own conclusions. Once adopted the joint SCI will replace the existing South Oxfordshire SCI and the Vale of White Horse SCI. You can give your comments on the draft Statement of Community Involvement from Wednesday 8 September until midnight on Wednesday 20 October 2021 by completing a survey: https://survey.southandvale.gov.uk/s/JointStatementOfCommunityInvolvement2021 Before completing the survey you can read through the draft Statement of Community Involvement linked on the same page. You can also provide your comments and upload any supporting documents using a link at the end of the survey. Queries? If you have any questions on the SCI, please contact the planning policy team on [email protected] or call 01235 422600. If you have any questions on the survey or require it in an alternative format (for example large print, Braille, audio, email, Easy Read and alternative languages) please email [email protected] or call 01235 422425. Personal details? If you are responding as an individual, you are not required to provide your name or contact details. Any personal information you provide to the council within your comments that could identify you will not be published in the summary report. If you are responding on behalf of an organisation or agent, they ask you to provide its name - the summary report will include this information. Further information on data protection is available in their general consultations privacy statement. Next steps After the consultation period ends, the district council will consider your comments and make appropriate changes to the SCI before they adopt it. Once adopted, which they expect to happen in December 2021, the revised SCI, along with a consultation statement and a consultation summary report, will be published on the South and Vale websites shortly afterwards. You can view the draft SCI here: http://whitehorsedc.gov.uk/jointSCIand the survey form here: https://survey.southandvale.gov.uk/s/JointStatementOfCommunityInvolvement2021/ This is an opportunity to tell VWHDC Planning what we think of their processes and how they might be improved if necessary. We rely on the district council's support for our updated neighbourhood plan policies when considering planning applications in the parish. You can access a link to the neighbourhood plan on our website, greatcoxwell.com GREAT COXWELL PARISH COUNCIL is looking for your help and input:
Please see the four announcements below from the Parish Council. 1. Great Coxwell Parish Council is still looking for one more Parish councillor, we have been one member short for some months now and we need your help to enable us to keep the village amenities like the Park and the Reading Room operating. Please feel free to chat informally to any of the existing councillors (Jacqui Russell, Mike Harris, Rory Gilmour and Kym MacDonald) about the role or email the clerk ([email protected]) for more details. Click here for full details. 2. Great Coxwell Parish Council is looking for a volunteer to run the Reading Room bookings. The Parish Room is mainly let to villagers and village groups. We need someone to hold the calendar and make sure everyone using the room has all the necessary information and access when required. For more details please contact the Parish clerk ([email protected]) 3. The Vale of the White Horse is surveying the needs for future leisure facilities in the area in response to housing growth. The Parish Council has been invited to meet with them and Faringdon Town Council to gain an understanding of local needs. We understand that there will be a future opportunity for individual comment but if you have anything you would like to bear in mind when we meet please let us know. As present we will base our points on responses we have had from previous surveys of the Parish, comments from residents and past experience, we intend to raise the follow three main points:
4. We are sorry that the Reading Room remains closed, just to let you know that we need to replace the boiler and attend to the plumbing in the toilets to make it fit for use again. We hope it will be up and running again before the end of the month and will keep you posted. |
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