Boot Street mirror

A team from SAFER today installed a mirror at the Boot Street / Laughton Hill junction. It has been located so those exiting Boot Street have some warning of vehicles approaching up the hill and equally those coming up the hill are aware of vehicles in Boot Street....

CALAmity… it’s not over yet

The appeal by CALA Homes against the WODC decision to refuse planning permission for 68 houses on the Woodstock Road took place last week. WODC and the combined Rule 6 party – SUSTO, Stonesfield Parish Council, and the Cotswolds AONB Conservation Board – put forward a...

Election of Stonesfield Parish Councillors

In the areas where there are insufficient candidates for a poll (such as Stonesfield), the persons nominated have been declared elected following an uncontested election, and in those where the number elected uncontested is fewer than the number of seats on the...

Volunteer for Bird Aid and help our local farmland birds

Bird Aid, a West Oxfordshire based charity, and part of The Wychwood Project, helps to feed our declining farmland birds during the ‘hunger gap’ from January to early May. Farmland bird populations have declined by almost half since 1970, due to a variety of factors,...

Theft of car number plates

A message was received about a theft of car number plates on 28th March as follows. “I parked at Stonesfield common, which I do on a regular basis, to walk my dog. I live in Freeland. On return to the car after about an hour I discovered that both plates had been...

Be ready for 2nd May

Make sure you’re registered to vote in time for the local elections on 2nd May On Thursday 2nd May residents in 16 of the 27 wards, including Stonesfield, in West Oxfordshire will go to the polls to have their say on who represents them at a local level. Local...