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The Website The Baldons Parish Council serves the villages of Marsh, Toot and Little Baldon in Oxfordshire. Please contact us if you have questions concerning the work of the Parish Council, if you have any concerns that you feel the Council should be aware of or where it can help or support you. You can use the navigation menu to find your way around the site. The Baldons Community website is the place to come for information about our parishes. Looking for an interest group or upcoming events? Need to know the times for the Mobile Library or Fireworks Night? You're in the right place Using the Baldons Community website you can stay up to date in the areas that you care about. Just look down the menu on the left to see what is going on in the Baldons. Click on a section to see more. A plus sign means there are sub-sections to go into. Content & Contacts We rely on local people to help keep content up to date. Ideas and suggestions? Please contact Peter Burke There is a revised SODC Local Plan with huge implications for this community. See here for details.
Pub Quiz - NB Change of Date!! At the Seven Stars - Wednesday 27 March, 7.30 pm
Baldons waste Collections Details here
SODC LOCAL PLAN - URGENT Please respond to SODC Local Plan 2034 by 5PM THIS MONDAY 18th February Your urgent input is required.
The Baldons Neighbourhood Plan The Neighbourhood Plan is important because it will give residents a say on future development in the Baldons. The Parish Council shares the view that people will want to take the opportunity to influence the future of the place where they live or work and that the Plan for the Parish should be written by the Parish rather than by Planning Officers. Please contact us on: baldonsplan@gmail.com.
The Baldons Neighbourhood Plan Referendum Result
The Baldons neighbourhood plan received an overwhelming majority ‘YES’ vote at referendum on the 4th October 2018. The official results are: Electorate eligible to vote: 320 Votes Cast: 154 or 48.1% Votes Yes: 140 Votes No: 14 Details have been posted on the SODC website
Reports will now go to members of the Cabinet and then Council to formally adopt the plan.
Proposed Oxford to Cambridge Expressway This has become a huge issue locally. The Expressway Action Group now has has in excess of 35 parishes involved including the Baldons Parish Council The steering group lead by Peter Rutt has Elizabeth Gillespie, Dawn McGiveron and John Clark as members and the group is a stakeholder representing the various villages and providing information to support the evaluation of the route option The group are not opposing the road in principle but by providing information on biodiversity and ecology and the views of local communities aim to help Highways England make the best possible evaluation of the scheme taking account of practicalities, problems and costs. We still hope to provide enough information to ensure that the recommended route goes north and west of Oxford. For full details see here. Follow this link to see a Google map of the proposed corridor. You can zoom in and out to get a better idea. At the moment maps from Highways England are poor and we are chasing them for more accurate boundaries. The Expressway action group (EAG) are seeking more information from the Highways about the route planning to give a better idea of those communities likely to be most affected by the options and those less so. It is also likely that villages will have to undertake substantial fundraising and campaigning in preparation for and the during the consultation period in 2019. Dawn McGiveron and John Clark are on the committee of the Expressway Action Group. Connie BarretttWe are sad to announce that Connie Barrett died peacefully at the age of 97 on Monday, 8th October Hazel JohnsMany villagers will remember Hazel Johns, who died at the age of 97, in Axbridge, Somerset, on 14th October.
Newsletters
Click here to see an archive of parish newsletters
Pub QuizThe Seven Stars will be hosting its next Pub Quiz on 26th September. Please come if you can!
Five years of the Seven StarsThere was a very lively celebration five years on from the opening, Friday 30th March 2018. Congratulations to Matt and the Team for making such a success of it.
Teenagers for tennis?I would like to guage interest in the idea of a simple youth tennis tournament as a way of the under 18s in the area to meet one another in a fun way.
Baldon RunnersThe Runners are out again, at 8 am on Saturdays.
Click here for details
South Oxfordshire Local Plan SODC is now consulting on the final version of its local plan prior to its submission to the Planning Inspectorate and public enquiry in 2018. See News
Defibrillator on the Village Green
Now installed. See News, click here.
Seven Stars Early openingThe Seven Stars opens at 10 am for breakfast. See here for details.
Grenoble Road and the Green Belt There is still a threat to the Green Belt. Details here
The parish newsletterclick here for back issues
Upcoming eventsSee bottom of page Fast broadband This is now live in most parts of the villages. Contact your internet provider or look on www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when for details.
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Upcoming Events
Monday 08 July | 19:30 - 21:30 - Parish Council Meeting |
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