Sep 11, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
On Monday 7 Sept the WODC Development Management Sub-Committee met to review a revised application to build 20 houses in the Manor Field. The Committee resoundingly refused the application by 6 votes to 1, with 3 Councillors abstaining. Obviously, this is very good...
Sep 1, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
West Oxfordshire District Council has just launched its Regulation 19 consultation on the Draft West Oxfordshire Local Plan 2043. The consultation will run until 9 October 2026 and will be open to all local residents, businesses,...
Aug 26, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
The next hearing for this application to build 20 houses in the Manor Field will be on Monday 7 September at the WODC offices at the address below: Council Chamber, Council Offices, Woodgreen, Witney, Oxfordshire OX28 1NB The meeting starts at 14h00. The Stonesfield...
Aug 3, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
In January 2026, the Stonesfield Neighbourhood Plan was submitted to the Independent Examiner who would review the Plan, together with a raft of supporting documentation, to ensure that the Plan’s Policies conform with National and Local Planning guidelines and...
Jul 6, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
The WODC Planning Committee made a site visit to the Manor Field on Thursday 2 July. The visit lasted about one hour. The committee viewed the site from the Combe Road before entering the field via the Manor Drive. Around 50 people gathered to see the visit, thank you...
Jun 25, 2026 | Community Action news
JUNE 2025 and 2026: June has several large and colourful moths, a real help for a complete amateur. Elephant Hawk. These moths are a great start, settled in the egg box inside the trap. Elephant hawk moth, JULY 2025: 26 species seen 84...
Jun 20, 2026 | Community Action news
Moths have been recorded from the 1 acre meadow off Brook lane and in the surrounding gardens as far as the bottom of the Churchfields allotments. The trap I have on loan is a battery 6W actinic heath trap. In June and August 2025 Peter Cuss from UTM kindly came with...
Mar 25, 2026 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) is looking for local volunteers to join its Pothole Super User scheme and Stonesfield has been encouraged to take part. The Parish Council is now asking residents who are willing to volunteer and help speed up...
Feb 12, 2026 | Community Action news
Stonesfield Parish Council are producing a Neighbourhood Plan and have submitted the plan to West Oxfordshire District Council for Regulation 16 consultation. We are writing to encourage you to submit your comments about the plan. Following the...
Dec 15, 2025 | Community Action news, Stonesfield news
The District Council is currently carrying out a consultation with the public on its latest proposals which they call “Preferred Spatial Options.” The closing date for comments is 22 December 2025, so there is little time to spare. Probably the most significant aspect...
Nov 12, 2025 | Community Action news
Brook lane limestone meadow and surrounds. The year to date Highlights for the year: a cuckoo heard and seen 25th April, the flowering of Meadow Clary and Pyramid orchids, common blue butterflies laying eggs on birds foot trefoil ( no common blues were recorded in...
Jun 29, 2025 | Community Action news
At a time when so much news on insects is poor, we have more good news; another couple of ‘fantastic firsts’ for the village. The first ‘first’ is a nationally scarce hoverfly – Parasyrphus nigritarsis (Zetterstedt, 1843) – a beneficial stripy yellow and black...
Jun 29, 2025 | Community Action news
Bagg’s Bottom, part of the Stonesfield Common, Bottoms and Banks SSSI in West Oxfordshire, is a rare chalk grassland ecosystem. With its complex topography, spring-fed slopes, ancient pollards, and upright brome-dominated grassland, it represents a landscape shaped by...
Jun 29, 2025 | Community Action news
The Brown Hairstreak butterfly (Thecla betulae) has not been observed in our parish so far this century. Late in the evening on 16 May 2025, several larvae of this species were observed and photographed along Bagg’s Bottom, detected using an ultra violet light on the...
Mar 29, 2025 | Community Action news
In September 2024, I produced a report (attached) espousing the botanical interest of the Glebe land , which was sent on by John Sampson to the Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment, who awarded a grant to develop a long-term management plan for the site. The management...
