Councillor Sally Povolotsky – Hendreds & Harwell  Launched today, The Hendreds & Harwell Youth Assembly will empower local young people in the community to be conduits of change, to engage them in shaping the future developments in the division, located in Hendreds & Harwell.  County Councillor Sally Povolotsky (Lib Dem) has set out an ambition to create […]

by Hayleigh Gascoigne and Sarah Medley, district councillors for the Blewbury & Harwell ward on the Vale of White Horse District Council To recap: the decision on the planning application for Valley Park was deferred by the Vale Planning Committee on 16th Feb for three reasons:1. The lack of provision for healthcare2. The design of […]

Healthcare in Hendreds and Harwell is now beyond a joke….there has, in my view, been systemic failures in planning, communication and provision metrics. Healthcare Oxfordshire has released its annual report from April 2020 – 2021 and the findings are below What is clear, is we are already in a system that is rife with inequality […]

??*Valley Park Update*?? 1️⃣ Good news! The Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) have now responded to the Valley Park planning application, asking the developer to provide just under ? £4million ? for healthcare provision, as well as allocating land for a GP surgery site, in the event that the one on Great Western Park does […]

Exciting news! The two new community centres on GWP have finally transferred to the ownership of the district councils! Council officers who have been working hard on this complex transfer process for a long time now, and since the handover at the end of last year, work has progressed to fit out the centres ready […]

Liberal Democrat Led Planning Committee Defers Valley Park We are over the moon at the outcome of this evening’s Vale of White Horse District Council Planning Committee meeting – the committee agreed unanimously to DEFER the decision on the Valley Park planning application! This is great news, as it means there is now more time […]

“Healthcare before Houses” Plans for 4000+ new houses between Didcot and Harwell – known as ‘Valley Park’ – would form a new housing development equivalent to the size of Wallingford.  The three existing GP surgeries in Didcot are already overstretched and under immense pressure, approaching dangerous levels. Currently patient numbers are approaching 50,000, and Valley […]