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Didcot Garden Town – updates

Latest news:

Didcot Eco Fair – Saturday 2 November from 11am

Everyone is invited to the Didcot Eco Fair to celebrate all things green at this free family-friendly event showcasing our district’s fantastic sustainable businesses, with arts and crafts activities, repair cafes, demonstrations and advice on how to save energy.

You can keep up to date on all the activities and businesses attending on the Cornerstone website.

Didcot Garden Town Advisory Board

Our next advisory board meeting is taking place on Monday 21 October, starting at 10am. We will be publishing the agenda soon.

Project update

We’ve had the following projects approved:

Green Infrastructure Strategy – this new strategy will help us to create detailed designs on how we can improve the biodiversity along walkways and cycle paths in and around Didcot and help to develop a new route between Mowbray Fields to the new Valley Park development.

Wayfinding Strategy – We’ve been working on providing new signage around the town to help new and existing residents to find the wide and varied walkways and cycle paths in Didcot.

Our Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (otherwise known as an LCWIP) for Didcot has now been approved by Oxfordshire County Council as the local highways authority. The plan sets out where improvements can be made to cycling paths and walkways to help encourage everyone to get around the town. You can read the report below and if you’d like a copy of any appendices, please contact us and we’ll send over a copy.

Newsletter

We produce a newsletter to keep you up to date on what’s happening in and around the garden town.  Here’s our latest newsletter we sent out in July.

If you’d like to sign up and receive our newsletters to find out more about the exciting projects planned for the town – register for updates by pressing the button below:

Didcot Garden Town case study

Since becoming a garden town in 2017 we’ve been working with partners to help improve the lives of everyone living in and around the town.

In partnership with Homes England, we are pleased to share a Didcot Garden Town case study that shows how we’ve helped develop strategies and plans for the town, how we overcome challenges over the past six years and what we’ve learnt along the way.

Caption reads: Didcot Wildlife Garden Charter with a robin on top of the letter 't' and butterflies and bees flying around.

Didcot Wildlife Garden Charter

We’ve partnered with Sustainable Didcot to help highlight a Didcot Wildlife Garden Charter to encourage everyone to pledge to help the wildlife thrive in their own garden.

With just a few simple steps you can help create green corridors to help enhance the biodiversity in the local area. You can get involved by visiting Sustainable Didcot’s website.

Other projects:

Broadway photography Quiz

You may have noticed we’ve put some fabulous new images (above) on the hoardings in front of 116-120 Broadway. Take part in our quiz and see how many plants you can name.

An image of the On Your Doorstep map.
Click on the image to download the map

On your Doorstep walking map available

We’ve worked together with Didcot Town Council, local parish councils, community groups and centres to create a ‘On your Doorstep’ map of interesting things. This beautiful map illustrates some of art works, trails and cultural and historical places in and around Didcot Garden Town. You can also pick up a paper copy at Cornerstone in Didcot.

More information on the garden town

Find out more about the Didcot Garden Town and the delivery plan here.

Contact us - Didcot Garden Town

01235 422473
(Text phone users add 18001 before dialing)

South Oxfordshire District Council
Abbey House
Abbey Close
Abingdon
OX14 3JE