Village Notice Board
Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan (MCNP) Consultation closes this week
If you are interested in responding to the 2024 Consultation on the Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan, please note that the consultation closes Friday, 23rd February 2024 at 23.59.
To find out what the Consultation is about go to www.mid-cherwell.org.uk/reg14, where you will also find an online reply form. Alternatively, please email your comments to info@mid-cherwell.org.uk or write to MCNP, c/o 52 Camp Road, Heyford Park, Oxfordshire, OX25 5HD. In all cases your name and email or postal address are required.
If you have any questions about the consultation, please contact the MCNP at info@mid-cherwell.org.uk
New Jan 2024Consultantion Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan
We’re pleased to inform you that we have now published the Review of the Neighbourhood Plan, and would welcome your comments and feedback on it. The Consultation remains open until Friday, 23rd February 2024.
The updated draft Plan has several important new planning policies, including the allocation of housing sites in two of the villages, aimed at meeting the needs of local people. There are also new policies protecting the Mid-Cherwell environment, its landscape and biodiversity, and we’ve added more Local Green Spaces and more Local Gaps for protection from possible future development.
We want to know what you think about the new Plan: we have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to respond with our online questionnaire – please click here.
If you wish, you can save your comments and return to the consultation later.
We have also printed a short booklet with a Summary of the Plan policies – if you live in the MCNP area and would like one please email us at info@mid-cherwell.org.uk with your postal address.
Thank you. We look forward to hearing from you.
MCNP Forum
Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan Press Release December 2023
Did you know…..The Mid Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan (MCNP) has been in force since a referendum was held in 2019?
A neighbourhood plan is a legal planning document that is used to guide development within the plan area, but it is formulated by local residents and volunteers, NOT planning authorities.
The MCNP is bringing its policies up to date and adding some important new ones to benefit all our local residents. We will shortly be consulting with all the communities within the Plan area and asking for your views.
Sign up at www.mid-cherwell.org.uk to find out more or email info@mid-cherwell.org.uk
Job Advertisement for new Parish Clerk
KIRTLINGTON PARISH COUNCIL – Parish Clerk and RFO (Responsible Finance Officer)
Working from home; attendance at Kirtlington Parish Council meetings in Kirtlington every 4-6 weeks
Hours: 15 – 20 hrs/week
Salary: £16/hour
Kirtlington Parish Council (KPC) serves a lively and engaged community which maintains strong rural traditions. In addition to normal parish council committee work with KPC members the Clerk liaises with a variety of village volunteers, including the independent Village Hall Management Committee, and helps co-ordinate the management of the village sports field and play areas. Other duties may include contributions to the village magazine, which has its own publication team.
RFO duties: assisting with the annual budget preparation, preparation and submission of the AGAR (Annual Governance & Accountability Return = end of year accounting statements).
Prior committee experience, numeracy and familiarity with local government administration will be required but further training can be provided.
For further information, please send your CV to both;
Chair, Jean Conway: Jc@jeanconway.co.uk and
Vice Chair, Briony Enser: kpc.bje@gmail.com
Deadline for applications
20 December 2023
Kirtlington 200 June/July 23 Draw Results
I am very pleased to report that the number of shares in the draws for June and July were 369. Since the first Draw in August 2009, £30,970.50 has been paid out in prize money and the equivalent amount has been passed to the Church Restoration Fund and we are very grateful to all those who have contributed in buying shares.
By now everyone will have received their annual renewal letter and I am very grateful to those who have already renewed and in some cases have increased their holdings of shares. If you have not received your renewal notice, please get in touch. The annual renewal in July for all shares has made it much easier to run the 200 Club and for us to have consistent prize money throughout the year.
As ever we always have a supply of application forms from myself at Yosemite (next to School
351195) and Tony Summerfield at Garden Cottage (351537).
Many thanks, Steve Straker
RESULTS;
June 2023 | July 2023 |
1st Share No. 42 Ann Mowat £83.03 | 1st Share No.638 Michael Oxley £83.03 |
2nd Share No.181 William Brewer £46.13 | 2nd Share No.490 Pam Haynes £46.13 |
3rd Share No.435 Barbara Dunkerley £27.68 | 3rd Share No.126 Jim Taylor £27.6 |
4th Share No.423 Rosemary Lewis £18.45 | 4th Share No.556 Anne Haynes £18.45 |
5th Share No 622 Sue Gamblin £9.23 | 5th Share No.322 Dudley Brewer £9.23 |
Mysterious leaflet circulating in the village
Kirtlington Parish Council, in response to the recent leafleting of the village, wishes to make clear that the Parish Council is not currently making any proposals for development in the parish. In particular, the Parish Council would like to reassure villagers that that the leaflet is misleading in highlighting the green area on the map, as this area has not been proposed for development. We understand the leaflet has been distributed by a land agent who has an active interest in developing a piece of land around the village.
The Parish Council is participating in a review of the Mid-Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan (MCNP), of which it has been a member parish since 2015. The MCNP is now being reviewed in the light of Cherwell District Council’s emerging Local Plan up to 2040, which is due to be published in September. Neighbourhood Plans were introduced in 2011 enabling parishes to make locally-specific policies alongside the District Council’s local plan.
Kirtlington Parish Council proposes to hold a public meeting for villagers in the autumn to discuss the MCNP, providing scope for the community to express its views. No policy decisions will be taken this year.
Jean Conway, Chair of Kirtlington Parish Council
Planned Footpath Changes Accessing Tackley
KPC would like to draw your attention to planned changes to the footpath access to Tackley railway station. See details in the poster from Tackley Parish Council. If you would like to comment, please email parishclerk@tackleyvillage.co.uk and they recommend that you also contact OCC Pathways Officer – Katie Walther at country.side@oxfordshire.co.uk
A reminder to all dog lovers in Kirtlington from the Parish Council
Many people in our village live here because of the fantastic countryside walks on the footpaths and bridleways we have here for us all to enjoy; through the village itself, across the Park, down to the river or the quarry, along the public footpaths and the canal towpath, across to Northbrook. Many villagers enjoy these walks with their dogs and the vast majority of these dog owners take bags with them and conscientiously pick up what their dogs inevitably deposit when they are out walking. It is extremely disappointing then to find that there are dog owners in the village who let their pets down.
It is an offence to allow a dog in your charge to foul a public area (£50 fixed penalty notice). Yet it seems some people still think the rules do not apply to them. The unpleasant residue of dog excrement is all too evident around the village and dog fouling is regular occurrence, astonishingly enough, even within yards of the dog bins! The few irresponsible dog owners seem set on giving dogs and all dog owners a bad name, spoiling things for everyone else. It isn’t asking much. Just bag it and bin it.
The dog excrement left by the small percentage of irresponsible dog owners is not just disgusting and unpleasant, it remains a health hazard. Infections of Toxocara Canis from coming into contact with dog faeces can still blind a child, and these infections are not great for adults either. It is for this reason that villagers are not permitted to exercise dogs on the sports field. Dogs are prohibited from this area so that children and young people, and older people, can play sports and exercise here safely and so that everyone can enjoy picnics here on the grass in the summer without fear of infection. Dog owners please remember that dogs are only permitted on the designated walk way between the two sports field gates. Here again we acknowledge that, most dog owners behave responsibly and obey the rule, but a few seem intent on spoiling things for everyone.
It has been suggested to the Parish Council that additional dog bins for ‘hot spots’ in the village could help to prompt everyone to do the right thing by their dogs. We therefore propose to purchase and install additional dog bins to be placed by the two main entrances to the Park from the village. Once and for all, let us all try to make sure man’s best friend is everyone’s best friend in the village.
Emergency Alerts system launched – test on 23 April
On Monday (19 March), the Cabinet Office launched a new system that will give the government and emergency services the capability to send an alert directly to mobile phones when there is a risk to life.
The Emergency Alerts system will allow the government to get urgent messages quickly to nearly 90 percent of mobile phones in a defined area. The system is now ready to be tested across the country following successful tests in East Suffolk and Reading.
The alerts will only ever come from the government or emergency services, and they will issue a warning, the details of the area impacted, and instructions about how best to respond.
Emergency Alerts will be used very rarely – only being sent where there is an immediate risk to people’s lives – so people may not receive an alert for months, or even years.
Emergency Alerts will be used across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and their initial use will focus on the most serious severe weather-related incidents, including severe flooding in England.
By broadcasting from cell towers in the vicinity of an emergency, the alerts are secure, free to receive, and one-way. They do not reveal anyone’s location or collect personal data.
Some vulnerable groups may want to opt out of the emergency alerts system. However, the government strongly recommends that people do not opt out of the service, as it is intended to warn people when lives are in danger.
The government has produced a toolkit to help councils communicate key messages as part of the Emergency Alerts campaign.
A UK-wide alerts test will take place in the early evening of 23 April which will see people receive a test message on their mobile phones.
Announcement:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/launch-of-life-saving-public-emergency-alerts
More information:
https://www.gov.uk/alerts