The walkers in the village may have noticed that Footpath 13 – through Chandlings Manor School has been temporarily closed. This is due to an unsafe bridge on the property of the Chandlings. The Council is in correspondence with the Oxfordshire County Council to make sure that a diversion to this public footpath can be …
Category: Clerk’s reports
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Parish News April 2012
Most of you will have noticed the water on Kennington Road between Best One and the roundabout at the beginning of Kennington. The leak’s progress is given on Thames Water Live www.thameswater.co.uk however, hopefully by the time this goes to print Thames Water will have sorted it and no more wet road! It has been …
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Parish News March 2012
Before the end of March all the Royal Mail post boxes should be refurbished, as you can see they are extremely tired and in need of freshening up! Many thanks to the parishioner who made a special trip to last month’s Saturday office to thank the Parish Council for what they do – comments like …
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Parish News February 2012
As you may be aware, over recent months the Council has been going through the process of appointing a new clerk. During January the application period closed, applications were received and candidates interviewed. I am very pleased to inform you that I [Anne Feather] was the successful candidate and am thoroughly looking forward to getting …
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Parish News January 2012
The Parish Council has appointed a new footpath warden, who has produced a report on the footpaths within the village. More details to follow in a later Chronicle. As you might have noticed, the replacement footbridge over the railway near the Tandem is now in place. Inevitably there is a certain amount of making good …
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Parish News November 2011
The members of the Parish Council were pleased with the response to the requests for locations for new salt bins. There is a separate report in the Chronicle about this issue written by the Chairman of the Parish Council, Peter Biggs. The salt cabinet to store the free salt offered by the County Council had …
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Parish News October 2011
There was a busy meeting on 13th October; amongst the items discussed was the installation of the BMX dirt track. As the track will go around the Leylandii trees, a few have to be felled before work can start on the track. On inspection the ones to be removed are in a poor state. It …
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Parish News September 2011
Plans for the BMX Track on Forest Side has been given the go-ahead with a grant of £11,390 from Waste Recycling Environmental Limited (WREN). Construction begins in October and will take around six weeks to complete. In agreement with the Vale, the new Simpson’s Way development will continue the existing numbering rather than being given …
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Parish News July 2011
The Clerk wrote to the County Council about the problems of the school coaches parking early in the morning at Manor Grove waiting for the Matthew Arnold School students and causing inconvenience to the local householders. An officer came out to investigate and look at suggested alterative pick up points such as The Avenue but …
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Parish News June 2011
The members of the Parish Council were given copies of the Library Service Consultation on the future of all the libraries in Oxfordshire including Kennington. The document and the background papers were available online on the County Council website www.oxfordshire.gov.uk . The consultation had a deadline of 30th September 2011. Kennington was classified as a …
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Parish News May 2011
At the first meeting of the new council, the members’ first task was to elect a Chairman and Cllr. Peter Biggs was chosen to serve for another year and Cllr. Colin Charlett was elected as Vice-Chairman again. The members co-opted two people to the vacancies following the election. There were four applicants and after a …
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Parish News April 2011
Following the close of nominations there were only twelve people elected to the fourteen seats on the Parish Council. Therefore there were two vacancies which would be filled by co-option at the May meeting. Details of how to apply for the vacancies are included in this addition of Chronicle. The members of the Parish Council …
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