Neighbourhood Plan analysis

Jul 22, 2025 | Stonesfield news

The Neighbourhood Plan steering group is now analysing the feedback from residents, landowners and statutory consultees following our public consultation process. The feedback has been largely positive, with great appreciation shown for the hard work and...

Safer Roads Unit Q1 Report

Jul 22, 2025 | Stonesfield news

We would now like to share our next Quarterly reports of road safety statistics with you. This is Quarter 1, Jan – March 2025 We prioritise enforcement and education for drink and drug driving, the non wearing of seatbelts, excessive speed and driving whilst...

Hosepipe ban – 22 July onwards

Jul 18, 2025 | Stonesfield news

This year, the UK experienced one of its warmest and driest springs in over a century. June was also England’s warmest on record. The Environment Agency has put our area into the prolonged dry weather category. To help protect our rivers and to make sure there’s...

WODC collecting in recycling bin – update

Jul 15, 2025 | Stonesfield news

This an official update from WODC (dated 15 July 2025 and reference number 0211880) for what you can put in your blue lidded recycling bin. This now includes flexible plastics i.e. plastic bags etc. Please read below for the details.  PLEASE NOTE...

Two more firsts

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...

Bagg’s Bottom: Integrated blackthorn management

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...

A new butterfly species for Stonesfield

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...