Archive for category: News

Following the election on Thursday 4th May, we are pleased to welcome back Cllr Filipova-Rivers as our representative on the South Oxfordshire District Council.

We would also like to invite them to attend our Parish Council meetings, dates of which can be found on our calendar

For a full list of all elected councillors please see the South Oxfordshire election results page here

May is shaping up to be a busy month for the community, 6 events in the planner ranging from the ever popular May Fayre, elections, council meetings and a fund raising Ceilidh for the Village Shop.  Not to mention the events surrounding the Coronation of His Majesty Charles III.

Take a look at the calendar for details on when and where the events are happening – https://www.southstoke.org.uk/events

If you do have any events planned for the community please let us know so we can include them in the calendar

Cholsey Repair Café – and others

Following the established formula “third Saturday of odd-numbered months”, Cholsey Repair Café returns again on 20^th May at the Cholsey Pavilion. Doors will be open from 11.00 to 13.40 and a wide variety of ‘broken’ items can be examined and, hopefully repaired. Volunteer fixers offer advice and repairs free, although a donation towards our running costs is welcome and spare parts need to be paid for. Our website www.cholseyrepaircafe.com will tell you more.

Readers might like to know that Goring Repair Café recently ran a successful first session at Goring Village Hall and plans to repeat on the first Saturday of even-numbered months, making 3^rd June their next event.

The Riverside Repair Café is now established in Wallingford and opens on the third Saturday of even-numbered months: as you read this, the next event will be on 17^th June. Further details appear in Round and About magazine or you can search for RiversideRepairCafe on Facebook.

Good luck with remembering the ‘formulae’ and do try to get into the habit of attempting to repair before you throw away.

Please find below the latest information on flooding picture for the County, following heavy rain over the past few days we now have a large number of flood alerts that have come on over the past 24 hours these are detailed below, we continue to monitor the situation and are getting regular updates from the Environment Agency.

 

Please see below key points for the Thames Valley and Oxfordshire.

 

The Flood page on the OCC Public website was activated Yesterday and will be updated later https://news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/spring-rainfall-and-river-levels-in-oxfordshire/

 

We will continue to get OCC comms to tweet messages and OFRS social media pages will have any updated flood warnings added.

 

Property Flooding can be reported through www.oxfordshirefloodtoolkit.com  or telephone Tel: 0345 310 1111

 

We still have high levels on many of our rivers due to the rain we experienced Thursday and Friday. The next few days continue to look dry. River Levels at the bottom of our larger catchments and all along the Thames are continuing to rise. River levels are very close to a flood warning being issued for the Abingdon area along the River Ock, we expect that properties in this area have come very close to flooding this morning. We do not expect to river levels to come this close flooding further property in other locations.

 

• We had widespread flood alerts issued yesterday due to heavy persistent rainfall on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning.
• The last 24 hours have seen a couple of locations receive up to 9 mm of rain, but the majority of our rain gauges saw less than 1mm of rain.
• The top reaches of most of our rivers have seen levels recede.
• The middle parts of most all of our rivers (excluding the Thames) have either stabilised or seen water levels begin to fall.
• We are still seeing levels rise at the bottom of our rivers. Including: River Cherwell, River Ray, River Evenlode, River Windrush, River Loddon, River Kennet, River Thame, and the River Ock. For most of these rivers it will mean that flooding of low laying land and roads will continue, but we are not expecting property flooding.
• The exception to this is the River Ock through Abingdon. River levels here are near to the property flooding threshold (within a couple of cm), therefore it is possible that a few properties have experienced property flooding. Certainly they will have water in their gardens and close to their homes.
• The River Thames is high along its length and still rising slowly in most places. We will continue to monitor this and inform you of any impacts expected (Beyond low lying fields, footpaths and roads).

 

• The Jubilee River is in operation with the 3 gate movements being undertaken yesterday – please note that the Flood alert for that area along the Thames went out this yesterday due to automated systems, this does not follow our normal procedure to not issue that alert until the Jubilee is being used to a higher capacity. We are aiming to undertake gate movements to reduce the levels on the River Thames in this area with an ambition to remove the alert soon.

 

There are now 36 Flood Alerts and 0 Flood Warnings in force across the Thames Valley LRF area (Potential for 1 warning to be issued today)

For all the latest Alerts and Warnings in force please visit our website here. 

People across South Oxfordshire are being urged to check that they are ready for the upcoming elections.

On Thursday 4 May, residents will go to the polls to choose local councillors who will make decisions on important issues, such as where we should focus our efforts locally to help tackle climate change, where and how new housing gets built, how we work to ensure there’s enough affordable housing and much more.

As we get closer to polling day, there are four key things people need to know: