Blog - Tag Archive for Vale of White Horse District Council

By Nige on August 30, 2024 at 6:45 am
Type: Post

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This is an archive showing posts assigned to tag: Vale of White Horse District Council.

Items relating to Vale of White Horse District Council, the local council responsible for signing off the completion of the Public Open Space on The Dovecote.

A Plan for Handover

By Nige on October 4, 2023 at 7:15 pm
Type: Post Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council

After the shocking news uncovered this week about the District Council breaking their commitment to residents, The Dovecote Residents' Association (TDRA) Elected Committee met to develop a plan to respond to the unexpected events earlier in the week.

Shock News Leaked at the Planning Enforcement Meeting on Mon 2nd Oct 2023

By Nige on October 2, 2023 at 4:42 pm
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

Quick update on the outcome of the enforcement meeting held on Mon 2nd Oct 2023. We were advised about this meeting on Thu 21st Sep, but it's fair to say it wasn't entirely clear how this meeting fitted into the overall plan for handover.

Potential Progress on Handover is Imminent

By Nige on September 24, 2023 at 3:53 pm
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

Looks like things are starting to happen again with handover. Vale of White Horse District Council (VWHDC) has made noises that they are ready to restart work. TDRA has been chasing for the past 18 months for some sort of plan from VWHDC as to how things can move forward.

Handover Update (Sep 2023)

By Nige on September 24, 2023 at 3:42 pm
Type: Post Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes | East Midlands Landscaping | Vale of White Horse District Council

The last Public Open Space (POS) Pre-Inspection meeting was held on 1st March 2022. This included reps from Bloor Homes, Vale of White Horse District Council (VWHDC), East Midlands Landscaping (EML) and TDRA. But since then, very little has happened.

Local Info – Bin Collections

By Nige on April 12, 2023 at 12:42 pm
Type: News Category: Residents
Tags: Announcements | Bin Collections | Vale of White Horse District Council

To help provide useful local information for residents, we have created a new page on the RA's website dedicated to providing links to relevant information.

Handover Delays Continue

By Nige on November 24, 2022 at 11:13 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council

We continue to hear nothing from the council over handover. As previously reported, we have held two pre-inspection meetings in the past 12 months or so. The first was in Oct 2021 (ish) and the last one was held on 1st March 2022. Since then, the council have done nothing and currently (as we understand […]

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 […]

Public Arts Funding

By Nige on October 3, 2022 at 11:07 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Another quick update in respect to the Arts Council funding – bit of a holding statement to be honest. The Arts Funding Sub-Committee (!) has been working hard in the background on developing ideas and liaising with a very helpful member of the council. A more detailed update will be provided very soon on this […]

Status of Handover

By Nige on October 3, 2022 at 11:06 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | Vale of White Horse District Council

Sorry for the long delay since the last update! Not a great deal happening recently from a Bloor Homes perspective, but there has been some movement in the last few days. So what’s the status of the handover between Bloor Homes and the Management Company we hear you ask? Latest update is below: Feel free […]

Reminder about Arts Funding Ideas

By Nige on June 30, 2022 at 11:02 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Quick reminder about sending in your suggestions for the use of the £47k arts funding. Deadline is Sun 3rd July. You can post your suggestions here, on Facebook or you can send your suggestions to the normal email address or just use our contact us form.