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September 10, 2021

As the heartbreaking events continue to unfold in Afghanistan, we’re working together as part of a co-ordinated response effort with Oxfordshire County Council and health and charity partners, to help find suitable accommodation and ensure families and individuals have access to ongoing mental health support, education, food, medicine, and other vital services For individuals who […]

September 9, 2021

South Oxfordshire District Council will be holding an extraordinary full council meeting to discuss the issue of the garden waste service, which is currently temporarily suspended.  The meeting will take place on Friday 24 September at 2pm at the council offices at 135 Eastern Avenue, Milton Park.  Anyone wishing to speak at the meeting will […]

September 7, 2021

Residents and community groups across South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse are being encouraged to come together in their local communities to help clean up their stretch of the River Thames.

August 27, 2021

3 September 2021 – please see the latest update on the garden waste service here.

August 25, 2021

Didcot will have a smarter first impression when work begins to prepare the Didcot Gateway site for its highly anticipated regeneration work. Three empty buildings on the land opposite Didcot Parkway station are due to be demolished later this month.     Homes England, which owns a large area of the Gateway site, has arranged to […]

August 24, 2021

Vulnerable residents in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse have been able to get to vaccination appointments and receive food parcels thanks to £136,363 of funding awarded to local voluntary and community organisations to provide Covid-safe transportation. The South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils were able to grant 12 organisations […]

August 23, 2021

As the government is no longer advising vulnerable people to shield following the easing of lockdown restrictions, Oxfordshire’s county, city and district councils are working together to contact clinically extremely vulnerable residents to let them know that help is still available and to ask them what future support they may need. Residents who had been […]

August 18, 2021

The Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council, Cllr Sue Cooper, has pledged the district council’s full support to work with other service providers to support refugees who will be arriving in the UK from Afghanistan.  This week, Afghanistan has fallen back under the control of the Taliban and thousands of people are now trying to […]

August 13, 2021

Members of the Didcot Garden Town Advisory Board heard the latest progress on projects and developments in and around the garden town during their recent meeting.  At the start of the meeting, Cllr Duncan Enright was welcomed as temporary Chair, on behalf of Cllr Liz Leffman, Leader of Oxfordshire County Council.  Cllr Leffman is set […]

August 11, 2021

People claiming Single Person Discount on their council tax in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse will shortly be asked to confirm whether they are still the only adult living in their property and therefore entitled to continue to receive the reduction. Incorrectly claiming this discount can be considered council tax fraud. More […]