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A Community-Led Plan for Piddington (Including 2019 Review) A Community-Led Plan for Piddington (Including 2019 Review) CONTENTS COMMUNITY FIRST OXFORDSHIRE 2 A COMMUNITY-LED PLAN FOR PIDDINGTON 3 INTRODUCTION 4 A Brief History 4 Piddington Today 5 ACTIVITIES, AMENITIES AND SERVICES 7 Social Activities 7 The Village Hall 10 Shopping and Visiting Services 13 Sport and Play 15 St. Nicholas’ Church 19 COUNTRYSIDE AND ENVIRONMENT 22 CRIME, SAFETY AND EMERGENCIES 27 Safety and Neighbourhood Watch 27 Emergency Plan 28 PARISH COUNCIL 29 Development 32 ROADS AND TRANSPORT 34 Roads and Traffic 34 Transport 38 School Transport 39 KEEPING IN TOUCH 41 OVERVIEW 42 …it’s about our community COMMUNITY FIRST OXFORDSHIRE Community irst Oxfordshire CFO) is the lad Commuit Led Plannig CLP) srice proidr working ith arish district ad cout coucils to support communities across Oxfordshire in doing CLP’s. Community First Oxfordshire has been supporting communit plas for ma ars. ur exprienced tam has orked ith or 100 communitis across fordshire and were there at the beginning of Piddington’s journey, adrssin rsidents at th r first C illa mtin. h aim of a Communit la is to st out a isio o how our communit wants to dlop, identifying th actio eede to achi it. Whilst CLP’s ha o statutory status thy are nothless suportd b arish, District ad Couty Coucils and related acis. District Councils ill refer to information in CLP’s to influence and inform policy mars ad planners in relation to sustainable community strategy, district councils’ corporat plas local delopmnt ramewors planin and rat applicatios. The word cloud above illustrates the range of issues addressed by eleven Oxfordshire communities, who completed CLP’s that set out over 245 community actions covering a wide range of issues. I eveloing a Communit Led lan for our ara Piington has followed i th ootsteps o or 00 othr communitis nationwid that ha roduced similar plas sinc th late 1970s. Th step-b-step rocss udertaken b our CLP team emoered your commuit to identif ad addrss a ra of iffrent social coomic, environmental ad cultural issus. t is a rocss that ca b used tim ad aain to ensur the rleac of our pla. h 2019 riew roides a benchmark of ho our plan has rorss and hihlights thos issus that still eed to b adrss. t is a inaluable tool o significat social alu to our communit. Coratulations iddinto on the ublicatio of our C pla ad riew!! Community First Oxfordshire (or mor information htts://www.communityfirstoo.or/) a 2 CMMUNITY-L PL OR PDINGTON Originally written 2017) he CLP consultation began in March 015 with a launch eent at the illage hall supported by Community First Oxfordshire (then OCC and Piddington Parish Council. steering group of illagers was formed as a conseuence of that eening who hae worked oer the last three years to put together this profile of contemporary village life alongside the community’s aspirations for the future. Fundamental to this was a illage uestionnaire which was sent out to eery household in the illage and allowed eeryone the opportunity of haing a say on a number of dierse issues. 106 households completed the uestionnaire and 190 illagers participated. he results hae been studied by the Parish Council PPC, illage all (PVHMC and Church PCC committees. ach hae held further discussions before submitting their conclusions, which now form the bacbone of our illage plan. his report has been diided into key sections mirroring the questionnaire content and within each a section a number of action points hae been identified using data arising from the results and through the consultation process. longside a description of the issue will be its status, who is responsible for dealing with it, how it will be executed and within what framework of time. A number of ‘open questions’ were also included in the questionnaire that allowed residents to be more specific on certain topics. A selection of these are referred to in the plan and the entire ‘free text response’ report can be found on the illage website along with the uestionnaire results. he plan reflects the consensus of community opinion and its aim is to proide a blueprint for the future deelopment of the illage. Not all the decisions can be actioned internally and will require illage organisations to work with other bodies for support and to find necessary funding. Most importantly, deliery of many initiaties will depend on the enthusiasm of olunteers to inest the necessary time and effort. ‘Volunteers are not paid – not eause te are orthless ut eause te are prieless.’ O) his plan is only the beginning. Whilst the steering group disbanded with its publication, it is crucial that the CLP continues to be exposed to reiews of progress by the management teams of existing illage organisations. o this end an annual reiew should be considered action point ! Atio 1: eport proess o actons at annual eetngs o illage oganisatos STATUS New initiatie WO Village organisations PPC, PVHMC, PCC OW nnual meetings of all illage organisations WHEN nnually Page 3 RV Unfortunately, the CLP was not published in 2017 due to work required in the objections to the G/T site. However, In 2019, with the conclusion of the Planning Appeal, it was decided that the main village entities – Parish Council, Village Hall Committee and Church – would undertake a review of the CLP questionnaire results and the plan as written in 2017. These updates can be found at the end of each section. With regards action point 1 the Annual General Meetings of both PPC and PVHMC are now widely publicised along with summaries. The intention being to communicate as much information to the Parish as possible on projects that have been undertaken, progress made and aspirations going forwards. The Church sends out regular bulletins and attends the Parish Council AGM. INTRCON ie story The village’s place name has been attributed to the ld nglish ‘Pyda's tun’ meaning a farm or settlement connected with yda rior to the Norman conquest 66 the village was included as part of the property of a Norseman called aun, who held ‘lands’ of which three were in xfordshire. iddington etintone was also mentioned in the Domesday Book (108 as lands in xfordshire that were held by the Countess Judith niece of illiam the Conqueror he ownership of iddington passed through many hands during the medieval period before being retained by St rideswides riory in 35 until 152 when ardinal olsey suppressed the riory to found his Cardinals ollege In 1530 enry VII deposed olsey and in 32 iddington passed to hrist hurch, xford. In 155 the parish was granted to homas Dynham lord of the manors of rill and oarstall in Buckinghamshire and remained as part of the baronetcy until 1856 when the title became extinct By the 18th century the village comprised 5 houses (1758) which remained constant until 1821, when the population was 359. In 184 the population had risen to 427 declining again to 281 in 81 and to 212 in 1901 uring the interwar years it was (1931) and in 951 rose again to 311. Most of the villagers like their predecessors, were employed on the land rade and local handicrafts occupied out of 5 families in 822, and the census of 5 recorded 3 craftsmen and tradesmen among them were shoemaers briclayers and carriers y 1953 some of the villagers were working at the neighboring army establishment at Arncott A unday chool was founded in 1 which subsequently became a village school attended by boys and girls here was also a baery a village post office, shop and smithy and several public houses. n the years following WW2 money was raised to build a village hall which was completed in 1953 age 4 he ee tas Public ouse let has ha a chequered history t close 14 he ld Post Office no Gwith Cottae (right). The aish ouncil bought lad idnell ane fro he MOD for se as a eceational aea for he commity. St ichlas’ Church, originally the pesonal chapel the lord he anor an his staff, beae a aish huh with its wn gavea and full ahial ights in 28. Vie o t icholas’ Church rior to the evelopment o Vicaae Lae let ad Pddington atoa Shoo and shoolhouse, ealy th entury (right) uilt in it contued as a shool unt In 10 he eat esten ailwa built a ew ai lie linkig shendon uncio an ig's Sutt to omplee a new high-speed ute eee London adingon ad iingha Snow ill The line passe ithin a few hunded ees f iddingon The GWR pee a ailwa saion alled ill ad dgeshall) hich was lsed Bitish ailwas in 53. otable visitor o iingon, Joh inkater (1882–1937), h ecae one of he Dymock ets ad a plaight orking with he iingha epetor Theatre is ried i St. Nichlas huha. Pto oa iddingon is a rual village ad ivil paish f hewell about iles (7 k stheas Bicese in Oxfordshire, gland. The aish is aproxiael 9.53 km2 (3.68 s iles compising edomiantl agicultual an wooland ut also wo signiicant areas e by he D. At its longes pint the paish rosses the 1 to he rh and rders ith Buckinghashie he suth Its westen ege rsses he B4011 until lackthorn village ad t the eas is adaet to he Bucks paish f udgeshall. age 5 Population Profile oymen and Housing he opulation profile o the illage uing the 2011 censu included 60 houehold containing 70 ault an 0 children under the age of the ault opulation 25 were working, with a higher than aerage proportion orking fro hoe 7.4% o the poulation age -74 ere elf-employe.
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