There will be a hustings in Wantage Parish Church on Sunday 23 June at 4pm. All the event details are here, including how to submit questions: https://kingsgrove-residents.co.uk/go/hustings HorNet and estate service charges A lot of people on Kingsgrove are freeholders,…
Retirement Apartments – planning application
The planning application for the retirement apartments has been submitted and is open for comments until Wednesday 3 July. These apartments would be built and run by McCarthy Stone and would be built on Lot 3, instead of the pub.…
No pub to be built in Kingsgrove
Summary The summary of the e-mail below is that there won’t be a pub in Kingsgrove and that McCarthy Stone will be putting forward plans to build 44 retirement living apartments on the site. As you may know, ‘Lot 3’…
Next Residents Working Group – Thursday 1 February
The residents working group typically meets monthly discussing issues raised by residents, ideas to develop the Kingsgrove community, planning events etc. The next meeting is The meeting is attended by the resident representatives, as well as the local Community Development Officer from the…
Bus gate – background information
Important note The first, and arguably one of the most important, point that needs to be made is this: The decision to mandate and implement the bus gate was down to Oxfordshire County Council alone. St. Modwen have had no…
Meeting notes from Crab Hill Development Forum – 25 January 2024
Bus gate I will be creating a separate post about the bus gate with some links that might help answer some of the questions. Trying to shoehorn that information into these notes would make it quite messy and hard to…
Crab Hill Development Forum – Thursday 25 January
Update My notes from the meeting can be found here. Next meeting The next Crab Hill Development Forum is happening this week and I am planning on attending. Raising issues I have a place on the agenda in order to…
Responsibility for the “verge” around the Fullers Meadow, a.k.a Cala, development
There has recently been quite a lot of confusion as to who has responsibility for maintaining the “verge” that runs around the edge of Fullers Meadow, a.k.a. Cala development, especially along Primrose Avenue. Current arrangements Currently St. Modwen, in its…
Block paving along Primrose Avenue & Elder Way
Some people have expressed concern that the installation of block paving across some roads in Kingsgrove would render them unadoptable by the council. I have had it confirmed by St. Modwen that this is false and that the paving being…
Letter to residents from St. Modwen
I have added some of my own observations on the news article below. Observations Raising issues As part of this website, there is already an existing Raising Issues page. Those e-mail addresses that weren’t already there will now be added…