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Council services over Christmas and New Year 2025/26

A guide to council services over the Christmas and New Year period when the council offices are closed to the public. 

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October 13, 2025

Park Sports Centre on track to replace end-of-life gas boilers with solar panels and air source heat pumps

Preparations are underway at Park Sports Centre in Wheatley for construction work to install sustainable energy efficiency measures at the site which could make savings on energy bills and carbon emissions.

August 18, 2025

A sunny outlook for Thame Leisure Centre

South Oxfordshire District Council-run Thame Leisure centre has a cleaner greener future thanks to the 150 new solar panels now installed on its roof. The solar panels cover large areas of the roof space at the centre including over the gym and the sports hall. It is estimated the panels will produce 69,000 kWh of […]

June 9, 2025

Leisure Centres in Berinsfield and Henley to benefit from new clean green energy

Multi-million-pound plans have been approved to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions at two South Oxfordshire leisure centres in Berinsfield and Henley. South Oxfordshire District Council has been successful in its bid for government funding of around £1.5m towards installing energy efficiency measures including double glazing and insulation, as well as solar panels and […]

View of the swimming pool at Thame Leisure Centre

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.

February 27, 2025

New plan to help power Oxfordshire using local renewable energy

As the UK transitions away from fossil fuels towards cleaner, renewable energy sources, the energy grid will need to adapt to store and distribute energy more efficiently, ensuring it is available where and when it is needed. Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council and West Oxfordshire, Cherwell, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district […]

May 20, 2024

Thame Leisure Centre set to feel the benefit of solar energy

Soon swimmers in Thame will be feeling the warmth of the sun – while being indoors, after South Oxfordshire District Council was successful in its bid for funding towards hundreds of solar panels for Thame Leisure Centre.

January 25, 2023

Council secures funding to install renewable energy at its arts centre

South Oxfordshire District Council has been successful in its bid for government funding of more than £370,000 towards the installation of solar panels and air source heat pumps at Cornerstone, the council’s arts centre in Didcot.