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Recruiting leaflet delivery volunteers
I am looking to recruit a taskforce of any local residents that would be willing to deliver leaflets to other residents of Kingsgrove. Leaflets? Won’t someone think of the trees? In an ideal world, yes, I would prefer to keep all the advertising of events and initiatives to electronic means. However, people are moving to…
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Vale and Downland Museum – looking for your input!
Barn Gallery refurbishment The team are really pleased to have received funding to refurbish their barn gallery, which has been in much need of an update since the Williams F1 car left a couple of years ago. ‘Everyday’ stories matter People are always interested in hearing the stories of other people. A lot of history…
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Kingsgrove Community Drop-in – Thursday 4 June
Kingsgrove and a ‘cuppa’ The next Kingsgrove Community Drop-in will be taking place on Thursday from 4:30pm. An opportunity to chat all things community with our Community Development Officer over a cuppa. This month, there will also be representatives from SNG, one of the housing associations operating on Kingsgrove. About Zoe Zoe Norton is the Community Development Officer for Wantage and Grove, and is employed…
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Next Residents Working Group – Thursday 28 May
Apologies First of all, apologies for only now letting people know about this meeting. Agenda and previous meeting minutes You can find the agenda of this upcoming meeting, as well as the minutes from the previous meeting at . Updates following last meeting Traffic calming measures As mentioned in the ‘Updates’ section in the minutes…
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Wantage and Grove Community Policing Survey 2026 – now live
The latest Wantage & Grove Community Policing Survey is now live.
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Construction and confetti!
Events went with a bang this afternoon as local dignitaries and residents gathered to mark the official groundbreaking ceremony for the Kingsgrove Community Hub! Eileen White, chair of trustees, helped people imagine the building as it will be, once complete, listing all of the facilities that will be available. Then Neil Townsend of Oxfordshire Community…
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The Mix Pop-up @ Kingsgrove Community Drop-in
On Thursday 7 May at 4:30pm, The Mix Pop-up will be joining Zoe Norton, our community Development Officer, at her Kingsgrove Community Drop-in. This will be an opportunity to chat about food, biodiversity, waste reduction and energy, amongst other things. The Mix will also be bringing some surplus food to be shared at the event.…
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Links to planning applications likely to be broken
The Vale of White Horse District Council has changed the software that it uses to manage planning applications. The new system does seem to be better in certain ways but unfortunately all existing links to planning applications on this website will no longer work. It would likely take a lot of effort to fix all…
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Estate roads – finishing works to commence in late April
The following is taken from a letter that was hand-delivered on the morning of Wednesday 22 April 2026. It is from ACS, who are the main infrastructure contractor on the Kingsgrove development. Any emphasis is mine. Starting on Monday 27th April, a phased approach will be implemented to initially undertake drainage surveys and associated works,…
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Next Residents Working Group – Thursday 23 April
The residents working group typically meets monthly discussing issues raised by residents, ideas to develop the Kingsgrove community etc. The meeting is attended by the resident representatives, representatives from Preim and the master developer, the community development officer as well as representatives from the Housing Associations that operate in Kingsgrove. You can find the agenda of this upcoming meeting, as well…