News

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

This is the news page. This is where we share shorter posts, which aim at highlighting important events.

Posts are normally shown in reverse chronological order, in groups of 10, but you can adapt the results using the controls below.

Concerns over Landscape Maintenance

By Nige on July 12, 2022 at 11:04 am
Type: News Category: Maintenance
Tags: Bloor Homes

For awareness, we have heard from a few people about concerns over the landscape maintenance, including a lack of weeding (thanks for taking this on Paul), the need to keep the balancing pond growth under control, weeds on the block paved roads and now a note about ragwort on the east edge of the Dovecote […]

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.

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 […]

Update on the Public Arts Funding

By Nige on June 20, 2022 at 10:58 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

After holding the Public Arts Funding Teams call last week (thanks to those that attended), we have propped up a board against the Oak tree at the front of the development to let those not on FB or email that there is some arts funding that we can take advantage of (see photos). We had […]

Public Arts Team Meeting

By Nige on June 15, 2022 at 10:56 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Announcements | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Final reminder about the Arts Teams meeting at 7pm. For those who may have checked, the Teams meeting will open at 6:30pm for our council reps and us to catch up ahead of 7pm. If everyone else joins at around 7pm, we can get started promptly. If anyone struggles with the link in the Facebook […]

Reminders

By Nige on June 13, 2022 at 10:54 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Bloor Homes | Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Reminder about two things:

Arts Funding Teams Meeting

By Nige on May 26, 2022 at 10:52 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

A Teams meeting has been organised at 7pm on Wed 15th June to talk about the £47k arts funding available for The Dovecote. Please add this into your diaries and include this link: [Old Link]. We will issue an agenda closer to the time. Every resident is invited to attend. You don’t need to say anything […]

Claiming Back FirstPort Service Charges

By Nige on May 21, 2022 at 10:00 am
Type: News Category: Service Charges
Tags: Announcements | Bloor Homes | FirstPort

For those interested in the charges being imposed by FirstPort as Managing Agent when the Management Company (MC) currently has no responsibility for the Public Open Space (POS), we have a (possibly) positive update. On behalf of one household (i.e. not in relation to the Residents’ Association), we submitted a speculative complaint to Bloor Homes […]

Update on Public Arts Funding

By Nige on May 12, 2022 at 9:57 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

Following on from our post the other day about the arts funding, the Arts Development Officer sent the following through to us, together with a Powerpoint. deck: We are fortunate enough to have an active planning policy that encourages most new developments to contribute towards art in the local area. Public Art can have many […]

Public Arts Funding

By Nige on May 7, 2022 at 9:55 am
Type: News Category: Handover
Tags: Public Arts Funding | Vale of White Horse District Council

We had a Teams meeting with the council on Thu to talk about the arts funding that is available for the development (about £47k). We met the Arts Development Officer and Programme Manager at the council. They are going to send some intro documentation to us next week, which we said we would share with […]