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Chippy Means Business Support Campaign Issue 391 October 2016 50p Town moves on New Campaign for Best Market Town – and maybe goodbye to the Chipping Norton Set? Bid for top Town Award The Town’s lively business group Experience Chippy Means Chipping Norton are leading the way again Business to enter the Great British High St Awards. The team’s efforts to promote the Town for business include some great social media work, plans for free town Wifi, a town e- information booth, and a Chippy Means Business support campaign. New town centre investments Good news this month sees the expanding Phone Co-op, with 60 local employees, planning new offices in the town centre – and Premier Inn and the revamped Blue Boar are about to open. So just as our MP decides to stop, maybe it’s time to ditch the misguided image of that old ‘Chipping Norton Set’ and rebrand our ‘Working Cotswold Town’. ECN business enthusiasts, pictured at a Big growth plans recent meeting, want to promote the Town A thriving town centre will be part of for both business and visitors. More on p17. WODC’s hastily revised Local Plan (out this month?). But, based on September’s Town Council discussion, it could mean much News in this issue: more housing to meet District targets, maybe 1500 houses up at Tank Farm, a mini • Sunny day at Mop – picture page A361 ‘bypass’, possibly another • Cameron resigns and triggers a supermarket and primary school. And what by-election on 20 October next for a growing Chipping Norton School • Newsteam take the Shuttle Bus with excellent A level and GCSE results? Features: Apple Day and all things appley ~ Could Theresa May’s proposed grammar Spotlight on the Crown & Cushion schools policy have local repercussions? Plus all the usual Arts, Sports, Clubs, Schools You can follow all these stories in the News this month and in future editions. & Letters LOCAL NEWS The fun of the Fair The traditional Mop Fair came to Chipping Norton again in September, arriving nry ward & He quietly on the Thursday s Blake Ho n Friend g Norton o of Chippin morning and mysteriously Mutch ngine! Aliza other fire e Lineham (4 an N ) of Chippi disappearing – equally quietly orton on a ng fire engine! – overnight on Saturday, leaving the Town free and ready again for the Farmers Market – this month on the Sunday avoiding the Mop. The weather ranged from warm and sunny Thursday then some looming black clouds but mainly dry and the Mop was as ith of busy as ever, and most visitors d Marie (1) Sm Mitchell (3) an young and old seemed to have fun. Enstone Eva (6) & Benjamin (2) Those that don’t like it probably ran Townsend o f Chadlington away for the weekend. The traffic, including Chippy’s increasing number of heavy lorries, did their usual diversion along the bumps of Albion Street. Hiring fairs or Mop fairs date from the time of Edward III and his attempt to regulate the labour market in 1351 during a serious national shortage after the Black Lucky 4- year-old Talia a Death. Later agricultural workers of C Jones (5) and Fatim hipping Norton Hannah Majid with ipping Norton would gather annually to bargain her winnings Qadir (3) of Ch ! with prospective employers and, hopefully, secure a position for the coming year. Hiring fairs continued well into the 20th century, but now it’s only the ‘fair’ part that has remained. In September not only is Chipping Norton ‘visited’ but it follows St Giles Fair in Oxford and Witney also sees a Old Mill visit. More next family of the The Hadji rton Mid-a hipping No year! ir fun for K Café C se frogs! elley Brewe to flip tho of Chad r (3) determined lington 2 LOCAL NEWS pleased to rejoin and took up his seat (one of 16 councillors) at By-election as MP resigns the same September meeting. In September MP David Cameron resigned as Witney and Chipping Norton’s MP. The Government has already, at very short notice, called a by-election for 20 October. Because this Great GCSE Results is a relatively safe seat, the Conservatives may want to Chipping Norton School ‘helicopter in’ a shortlist of favoured candidates to present to Year 11 students have local party members. The Witney Gazette mentioned names been celebrating some such as prominent Vote Leave supporter MEP Daniel Hannan great GCSE successes. and County Council Leader Ian Hudspeth. Labour (who came They were under- second last time with Witney Councillor Duncan Enright), standably nervous when were also having to do some rapid selection. Mr Cameron tentatively opening their returned from his summer family holidays and made the envelopes but they need announcement saying it ‘had been an honour to serve’ the not have worried. Over constituency and local supporters praised his work as an MP. two thirds of students Before the EU referendum he promised to stay on as Prime (67%) achieved the Minister if Leave won. They did, but he resigned as PM. Then threshold in English and he pledged to stay on as a backbencher as our MP beyond Mathematics (A*–C 2020 and to spend more time in his constituency. He now grades) and across all says he could not do so without being a ‘distraction’ to Prime subjects 22% of grades Minister Theresa May. were A* and A. There GCSE celebrations at Chipping Mr Cameron were many notable results Norton School denied in the press and there were lots of high achieving students. Fifteen in the that his resignation year group managed to get 8 or more GCSE grades at A* and was anything to do A: Elizabeth Alarcon-Clark; Max Benson; Charlotte Facer; with disagreeing Emily Fothergill; Abi Greenfield; Georgia Juckes; Bonnie Lunel; with the new PM’s Elizabeth Moulson; Alice Nottingham; Holly Oliver-Hall; Louisa plan to bring back Oliver-Hall; Marcus Pendery; Ewan Vellinga; Darcy Watkins; grammar school and Jenny Woodcock. Special mention should go to the selection. He has Oliver-Hall twins, Holly and Louisa, who are celebrating a always said he magnificent 15 A* grades and 6 A grades between them. would not propose Headteacher Simon Duffy said, ‘These great GCSE results such a policy as it come at the end of a challenging year for the School and on would not get public the tail of some great A level results. It has been wonderful support. The celebrating both collective and individual successes with schools’ policy will students in school today’. This summer, the way that school More time for shopping at Chippy’s provoke quite some performance is measured has changed and the emphasis has farmers’ market? interest in shifted firmly to the progress that students make from their Oxfordshire. Future options for Chipping Norton’s own KS2 starting point to their KS4 outcomes. Schools will have a comprehensive school will no doubt get attention in the Progress 8 and an Attainment 8 score across 8 qualifications. Chippy News! Views welcome. Meanwhile our ex-MP who is In addition, schools will report the percentage of students to hold his 50th birthday party in October at Sarsden achieving the threshold in English and Mathematics. Mr Duffy (according to The Times), says he will ‘continue to keep a added, ‘The new performance measures are welcomed as they home’ in Dean, although the children attend schools in focus on the progress of each and every student and they London. He said he wants to ‘still contribute to public service’ effectively level the playing field. At Chipping Norton School although there is already press speculation about lucrative over three quarters of students made expected or better than private sector jobs. A book agent has apparently signed him expected progress in both English and Mathematics. This up to publish his memoirs next year with the ex-MP wanting represents a significant increase on the 2015 results and is well to ‘put down on record the things I tried to do as Prime above the national figures. I wish all of our students good luck Minister’. But as with previous statements of intent, Cameron- as they move into the next phase of their educational lives’. watchers will have to wait to see what actually happens. Tank Farm: 1500 homes + ‘bypass’? Co-opted Town Councillor As reported last month, West Oxfordshire’s (hopefully last) Following the resignation in July Cllr Annie Roy-Barker, Chipping Draft Local Plan is being finalised right now and, as District Norton Town Council decided to fill the vacancy by co-opting a Councillor Geoff Saul told September’s Town Council new member. The position was advertised and interested meeting, official pressure on WODC to increase its housing candidates were interviewed by the Town Council in private allocation could mean a lot more for Chippy. Town before their 19 September monthly meeting. After a vote Councillors also discussed a latest County report looking at Richard Benfield was selected. The others who had expressed ‘Traffic Options’ for our town. It suggests that a ‘link road’ interest were Mr Z Coleman, Mr D Freeman, Ms M Jesty and Mr from the Burford road to either London Road or perhaps J Stanley. In fact Richard Benfield was very recently on the Town even Banbury Road, could be built as part of a 1500 homes Council as an elected member and served as Deputy Mayor but development project (much larger than previously suggested) stood down earlier in 2016 owing to family issues. He is now at and beyond Tank Farm at the top of town. This could 3 LOCAL NEWS provide almost an A361 by-pass or ‘relief road’, reducing Inn, close to opening, will no doubt bring more staycationers traffic through the town centre.
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