Over 40 establishments across West Oxfordshire are now signed up to Safe Places, a national support network offered by businesses for anyone feeling lost, worried or threatened when they are out. Safe Places has already launched in Witney, Carterton, Burford, Bampton, Woodstock and Eynsham, and is currently being rolled out in Chipping Norton. First to […]

A bus roadshow will soon be touring the county seeking the views of Oxfordshire. For five days from Monday 18 February, the Oxford Bus Company vehicle will be visiting towns and villages to encourage people to have their say on the Oxfordshire Plan 2050. The Plan is part of the £215m Housing & Growth Deal […]

The Department of Digital, Culture, Media & Sport launched the Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme in March 2018, which the Better Broadband programme at Oxfordshire County Council are facilitating for businesses and residences across Oxfordshire. Full fibre broadband connections offer the fastest and most reliable speeds available and the government is committed to a vision of […]

West Oxfordshire District Councillors have backed Government plans to increase council tax for long-term empty properties in the District. At a meeting on 16 January, Cabinet members recommended that the Long Term Empty Property Premium, currently set at 50 per cent, be increased to 100 per cent from 1 April for properties that have been […]

Residents are being invited to have their say on proposals to develop a key area of Chipping Norton. A consultation is now running on the East Chipping Norton Strategic Development Area where the West Oxfordshire Local Plan has allocated land for strategic development to include building around 1,200 homes, a new primary school along with […]

Letters are being sent to householders in West Oxfordshire encouraging them to sign up, or to renew their subscription, for the garden waste collection service. The new subscription year starts from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020 and costs £30 per bin a year for a fortnightly wheeled-bin collection. Residents signing up before the […]