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Welcome to the home of The Dovecote Residents’ Association (TDRA). We represent the residents of 140 new-build homes in the heart of south Oxfordshire.

Here, you can find everything you need to know about the development. If you want a quick intro into our website, just read our intro post.

If there’s something you think should be on this site and you can’t find it, please get in touch via our Contact form.


New Resident?

If you have just moved in to The Dovecote, why not check out our Intro for New Residents?


Latest Update

We are now moving into a new phase of the handover process and to reflect that shift in focus, we have created a new section of this site about the residents Taking Control. This articulates Our Vision, Our Plan, Our Action, Our Vote, Our Option, Our Timeline, Our New Managing Agent and Our Snagging List for transitioning from a Bloor-managed development to a residents-controlled Management Company.

We also now have Our FAQs to try and answer residents’ common questions.

Recent Announcements

Here you will find a list of our recent announcements. Hopefully you can find something you are interested in!.

First Port
First Port

Email from FirstPort

By Nige on February 10, 2023 at 11:29 am
Type: News Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | FirstPort

We assume everyone has received an email from FirstPort advising of a change in property manager. We will paste the content in a separate post for completeness. Ignore the email – it adds no value to The Dovecote and is completely irrelevant. Just a reminder that there is NO NEED to register on the FirstPort portal. Our […]

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Bloor Homes
Bloor Homes

Response to Bloor Deputy MD

By Nige on January 23, 2023 at 11:22 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes

Our response to the Deputy MD of Bloor Homes, South Midlands: Deputy MD, Many thanks for your response. Your reference to “…our former development…” is interesting. Since Bloor is very much still responsible for the development and is likely to continue to be responsible for a good amount of time to come. For Bloor Homes, […]

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Bloor Homes
Bloor Homes

Email from Bloor Deputy Managing Director

By Nige on December 6, 2022 at 11:18 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes

We have just received an email from the Deputy MD of Bloor Homes South Midlands. It relates to our request for a generic Deed of Variation to avoid mortgage challenges for residents in the future. Ultimately the response is disappointing (but unsurprising), but there are lots of entertaining elements in there as well. I’ve included […]

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Public Arts Funding
Public Arts Funding

Public Arts Funding Now on Hold

By Nige on November 24, 2022 at 11:12 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Following a lot of hard work by the team looking into how we best spend the £47k arts funding that we have available to us, our council rep has suggested that we can’t actually progress with this until the Management Company (MC) takes over responsibility for the Public Open Space (POS), so effectively it’s all […]

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The Dovecote
The Dovecote

Speeding at the Main Crossroads

By Nige on June 22, 2022 at 11:00 am
Type: News Category: Estate Management
Tags: Announcements | Roads

 We have had an email from a resident in regards to the main crossroads at Virgate/Furlongs/Lammas Land. Specifically highlighting a concern over speeding and/or general driving without due care of others. This ties in with others’ concerns over speeding on site by delivery drivers and others, raised on the FB group. Is there anything we […]

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