Police Appeal for information after unexplained death – Faringdon

Please follow the link below to the Thames Valley Police Website:

http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/newsevents/newsevents-pressreleases/newsevents-pressreleases-item.htm?id=301494

Notice of Local Public Inquiry – Humpty Hill

Notice of Local Public Inquiry

Section 15 (1) of the Commons Act 2006

The Oxfordshire County Council

Re: Humpty Hill, Highworth Rd, adjacent to Orchard Hill in the Parish of Great Faringdon

Please see below an information notice and plan publicising a local public inquiry to take place regarding this application.

Humpty Hill Inquiry

White Horse and Fernhill practices to merge in April 2015

See the link below for details:

Practices Merge

VALE OF WHITE HORSE DISTRICT COUNCIL – SITUATION REPORT

VALE OF WHITE HORSE DISTRICT COUNCIL – SITUATION REPORT

Communications

If you know someone who is not getting the messages, please let us know or tell them to email us: communications@southandvale.gov.uk.

Services

As so many of our services are up and running it is now easier to give details of those where people will experience delays or disruptions, than list those that were not hugely affected. However, with all services things will possibly take a little longer than usual given we are operating from temporary offices with fewer staff than normal, so we are still asking people to hold off getting in touch unless it is an emergency or they have a pressing issue.

We are constantly updating the website with this information so please look there for a list of the services disrupted. The main service area affected is planning.

Planning Situation

All of planning’s IT services are now up and running, including viewing and commenting on planning applications. We are extending the deadline for commenting on planning applications by eight days, which was the length of time our planning system was down.

We are currently predicting a two week delay with making decisions on planning applications that were already registered. It is going to take some time for our planning officers to get back up to speed, so again our current message to residents is that it would be a great help if they held off getting in touch unless it is urgent. We are also asking folk to refrain from submitting a new application unless it is urgent.

Salvage Operation

We have a restoration company currently salvaging what they can from the list of documents that we have identified as critical. They should have this finished by the 25 January. From Monday, crews will go in to see what items they can salvage.

Next Steps

This week we hope we will be able to give you more news on our temporary home. We have been looking at sites in Abingdon and Milton Park.

Roger Cox

District Councillor

JEF AGM 22nd January

This meeting will go ahead as planned despite the fire at Crowmarsh Gifford.

Thursday 22nd January

7pm

Corn Exchange

Faringdon

Far_JEF_22 Jan 15_agenda

FAR JEF Minutes 16 Oct 2014

Update from Vale White Horse District Council

Here’s a very brief update on the situation.

Whist we have a number of services up and running as usual (see our temporary website for a full list) we’re still in the process of restoring our IT systems which means disruptions for those that rely heavily on these, like planning.

IT are working really hard to re-establish our networks and phone lines but in the meantime we’re directing people to our temporary website for the latest service information and advice and asking people to only call in an absolute emergency over the next until further notice.

Temporary Website address:

http://southandvalecouncils.wordpress.com

Right now we are planning what services we will be able to provide next week with the resources currently at our disposal. This is clearly dependant on what IT we have in place and we’ll confirm this when we can.

Once we have our priority front-line services up and running next week, we’ll turn our attentions to establishing a medium or long term base for the councils.

Upcoming committee meetings, which are going ahead: