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May 13, 2025
Cornerstone Arts Centre bursts with Pride this June
Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot is set to sparkle this June with a fabulous celebration of Pride and everyone’s invited!
May 12, 2025
Wallingford bathing season opens this week
This week sees the start of the bathing season in England, and this means that from 15 May, regular tests will be carried out on water samples from the River Thames at Wallingford throughout the summer.
May 12, 2025
Major council IT system maintenance
Towards the end of May, we are carrying out a major piece of planned essential maintenance work on the council’s IT systems. This work is unavoidable and has to take place in order to secure the future of our IT system and the services it enables.
May 6, 2025
Work to create accessible moorings on the River Thames at Wallingford is now complete
Over £209,000 has been invested in major accessibility improvements at the riverside in Wallingford.
April 22, 2025
49,000 new garden waste permits purchased by green-fingered residents this spring
Almost 49,000 residents are now signed up to the new garden waste permit scheme in South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse districts.
April 22, 2025
Didcot’s trees take root in new Artweeks exhibition at Cornerstone
Cornerstone Arts Centre in Didcot will be welcoming local artist Linda Benton to its gallery this May as part of Oxfordshire Artweeks. Her latest exhibition, Didcot’s Oaks (and other notable trees), is a love letter to the leafy giants that shape the town’s landscape, along with the stories, poems and wildlife they quietly shelter. From […]
April 15, 2025
Next steps for Joint Local Plan
Published Tuesday 15 April 2025 We are pleased to announce that the dates for the start of the public hearings for the South and Vale Joint Local Plan have been published this week. This stage of the examination involves our appointed Planning Inspectors (Inspectors R A Bust and C Mulloy) holding hearing sessions to hear […]
April 14, 2025
Flowery facelift for Cornerstone courtyard
Cornerstone in Didcot has received a flowery facelift thanks to South Oxfordshire District Council.
April 3, 2025
Solar energy is coming to Thame Leisure Centre
Work has begun this week at Thame Leisure Centre to install just over 150 solar panels, reducing the site’s reliance on fossil fuels and lowering its carbon emissions.
April 3, 2025
More plans for more nature recovery in South Oxfordshire
South Oxfordshire District Council has increased the area of its land being used for nature recovery by almost a fifth since last year.
