Julie Mabberley

Vale of the White Horse District Council have set up an online consultation to determine the priorities for their Corporate Plan.

I KNOW it’s just a coincidence but both of our GP practices in Wantage are changing the way you can make appointments.

THERE was an article in last week’s Herald about the Police and Crime Panel not having any power to hold the police commissioner to account for recent behaviour.

THE Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) have issued a report (A Housing Design Audit for England) in which they judged three-quarters of housing projects to be of 'mediocre' or 'poor' design quality.

AS you will see from other pages in the Herald this week and last week, we are still fighting to get Wantage Community Hospital in-patient beds re-opened.

Late last year the Herald published an article about a family in Wantage unable to sell their home on one of the new developments because of an estate rentcharge that the home owner must pay towards the upkeep of the communal areas on the development.

AT the Wantage Town Council Planning meeting last week, a district councillor stated that the town councillors should not be wasting time reviewing individual planning applications for the town, but that these should be decided purely by the officers at the Vale.

DAVID Johnston (our new MP) gave his maiden speech last week and in it he talked about education, so I thought I would provide a summary of the Pupil Plan for the Wantage area from the county council.

AS we start the New Year, it seems appropriate to give an update on the housing developments around the Wantage area.

It’s Christmas and a time for wishing so I sat down last week and thought of all the things we could wish for.