All posts in the topic Useful websites for Headington & Marston (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Chris Brewer at Aug 27 19:33 UTC
Someone has suggested that I make a “sticky” topic (one that stays at the top of the forum website) where useful links can be posted. I am happy to do this, and everyone is invited to contribute (as long as the links are relevant to Headington & Marston, and are not advertising). I will start off with a few: Planning applications search: http://uniformpublicaccess.oxford.gov.uk/publicaccess/tdc/tdc_home.aspx Find your neighbourhood police officers: http://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/bcu/oxfordshire/local-police-area/oxford_city/oxford-city.htm Information on Conservation Areas from Oxford City Council (with links to maps showing the four Conservation Areas in Headington & Marston): http://www.oxford.gov.uk/planning/conservation-areas.cfm You can find links to over 170 Headington & Marston websites (some of which are commercial, but try not to look) here: http://www.headington.org.uk/links/ That list is a bit indigestible, so do feel free to pick out and recommend any particularly useful sites to this forum.
I suggest the two Council Report-a-Fault sites: 1. Oxford City Council: http://uniformpublicaccess.oxford.gov.uk//LocalView/ReportAFault.aspx (this takes you to On-the-Map, In-the-Area and other very useful find-your-way-about info, using the online map they provide) 2. Oxfordshire County Council: www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/wps/portal/publicsite/doitonline/reportitonline/forms (or http://tinyurl.com/45pyuv ) View my post on April 13th to see what the Council wizards can do, once they are told We could do some interesting experiments to see whether Street Cleaning, for instance, is done twice as fast if you report it to both sites at once instead of just one - or do they cancel each other out?
Well with Staphanie promoting her websites. I suggest http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/HEADINGTONNEWS.htm for Headington news and comment. and for what on in the area to do, see and watch see http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Oxfordculture.htm
Could we have a link to the Orinoco Website for information on Recycling?
www.oxorinoco.org
People are always asking how to get things posted on the many community notice-boards that are springing up in Headington & Marston (currently 19, and still increasing). If you go to the Community Notice Board page of the Oxford City Council website: http://www.oxford.gov.uk/community/Noticeboards.cfm and click on "North East", you will get a printable PDF giving the addresses in Headington and Marston to which notices should be sent. Did you know that Barton and Wood Farm have their own community websites? http://www.iliveinbarton.co.uk/ http://www.woodfarm.org/
May I suggest that http://www.ruthwilkinson.mycouncillor.org.uk/ be added to the sticky topic? Derek
I blogged about the state of the Oxford planning website and the fact that you could not subscribe online to alerts. And today I notice someone has left a comment on the post to go have a look at http://www.planningalerts.com/ It would appear to allow you to enter your postcode and tell it you want an email whenever an application to your local planning authority is submitted within a certain radius of that post code. It says that Oxford City Council is participating in this, so I have signed up to receive everything within 2km of my postcode and we'll see whether I get anything. But it sounds nearly ideal if it works, and it's by those great folk at "mySociety" who do the FixMyStreet and WriteToThem sites, so there's a fair chance it will! I'll have a look at the interface they allow you to use to the data and see if I can't build something to put on a website that would capture them all for a particular area automatically, like the Headington news site or Ruth's site.
Thanks for spotting this, Jock, it is potentially a useful site. I've signed up for the neighbourhood alert with the London Road end of Stephen Road as a central focus point, and that should cover the entire Headington Ward. I'll try and compare what I get off this site with the alerts I get from the city planners. One word of warning though, this should technically pick up planning applications, but I can't see any reference to planning decisions. It will be interesting to see if it shows whether applications are being delegated to officers or to committee. I'll carry on posting planning applications, decisions and appeal outcomes to the website maintained by David Rundle and myself - incidentally this can be reached using two different addresses now - the existing one http://ruthwilkinson.mycouncillor.org.uk/ quoted by Derek above, and also one which may be easier for people to remember, http://headingtonlibdems.org.uk (with or without the www.)
Incidentally, I know it's summer, but I have so far not had a single planning
alert from this service. My guess is that OCC may be listed as participating
but have not got it right yet. But maybe there just haven't been any planning
applications submitted within a 2km radius of Morrell Hall since the beginning
of August. Somehow I doubt it.
I signed up at http://www.planningalerts.com/ with my postcode, and have had ten messages already since 6 August, most of them containing more than one application. Maybe they don't recognize your postcode? You could try signing up with someone else's. I am sure that you should have received some of the ones I am getting, as they are nearer to you than to me.
I signed up a few weeks ago and have had several within 1 km radius of Old
Headington.
Peter McCarter
This site - http://www.planningfinder.co.uk/page/home seems to work well.