Dear [Forename]

First the news: the opening of the Wantage Eastern Relief Road has been postponed until December. This is due to a combination of factors – some final snagging works are needed along the road, the road safety audits need to take place and then Oxfordshire County Council will need to complete the paperwork to issue completion certificates. In collaboration with Oxfordshire County Council, St Modwen developers have set a new opening date of 5th December to ensure no further delays.
This is just another example of how our councils and developers are managing to delay the infrastructure that we need in OX12!

Just a reminder that our annual meeting will take place on this Friday, 27 September at 7.30pm in Wantage Methodist Church, Newbury Street OX12 8DA. Please remember that the Beacon car park still has very limited parking, due to refurbishment work. Hopefully Councillor Crawford will be able to update us about this work at our meeting.
Our topic this year is the particular issues relating to the infrastructure and facilities available to the residents of this area.
Our Keynote speaker will be Andrew Crawford, Vale of the White Horse District Councillor and Cabinet member for Finance and Property, and Wantage Town Councillor. Councillor Crawford will be representing Olly Glover MP, the recently elected Member of Parliament for Didcot and Wantage who is unable to attend.

This main part of the meeting will be preceded by a brief AGM for the WaGCG. In order to allow as much time as possible for our major topic, verbal reports will be kept to a minimum. Reports are available on our website at https://wantageandgrove.org/agm2024.php and some printed copies will also be available at the meeting. Questions will of course be accepted on the reports but we would ask you to keep these brief.

AGM Agenda:
  Chairman’s Welcome
  Minutes of the 2023 AGM
  Treasurer’s Report
  Campaign Manager’s Report
  Election of Committee

If you would be interested in joining the committee it would be helpful if you could let us know in advance by emailing chair@wantageandgrove.org.

As last year, the meeting will be a combination of a physical meeting and a zoom meeting, although it will be much harder to join in the discussion via zoom. If you want to watch the proceedings remotely, the zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88181060669?pwd=vZjSlrwZyDHUajzvgybC72EAVqtlbj.1 or Meeting ID: 881 8106 0669 Passcode: 633817.
If there are any votes in our (very short) AGM you won't be able to vote if you are a remote attendee (via Zoom).

For details of all roadworks around the country - see https://one.network/.
You can read previous newsletters at https://wantageandgrove.org/newsletters.php and find a list of many of the sports, cultural and community organisations in OX12 at https://wantageandgrove.org/organisations.php

Thanks for reading.

Best wishes
Julie

Julie Mabberley
Campaign Manager

Wantage and Grove Campaign Group
www.wantageandgrove.org

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