Bloxham Neighbourhood Plan Infrastructure and Business Final Submission 2 1) MEDICAL PROVISION IN BLOXHAM ............................................................................ 10 a) Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 10 b) NHS Structures ...................................................................................................................................... 10 c) Bloxham and Hook Norton Surgeries ..................................................................................................... 11 d) Bloxham Pharmacy and Bloxham Surgery Dispensary ........................................................................... 15 e) Out of hours Emergency Medical and Dental Treatment ....................................................................... 19 f) Other Health Services ............................................................................................................................ 19 g) Dental services ...................................................................................................................................... 22 h) General Health Statistics for Bloxham ................................................................................................... 25 2) EDUCATIONAL PROVISION ............................................................................................. 28 a) School Catchment Areas (Designated Areas) ......................................................................................... 29 b) Bloxham Primary School ........................................................................................................................ 30 c) The Warriner School .............................................................................................................................. 40 d) Bloxham School .................................................................................................................................... 49 3) THE UTILITIES - ELECTRICITY ...................................................................................... 54 a) General Background .............................................................................................................................. 54 b) Bloxham Capacity Issues........................................................................................................................ 54 c) Bloxham Reliability and Resilience Issues? ............................................................................................ 54 d) Contextualising our electricity situation ................................................................................................ 55 e) Why the lack of resilience? .................................................................................................................... 58 f) What work has been done in Bloxham .................................................................................................. 59 g) Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 59 4) THE UTILITIES – GAS ........................................................................................................ 64 a) Summary ............................................................................................................................................... 64 b) General Background .............................................................................................................................. 64 c) Bloxham capacity issues of the main feed? ........................................................................................... 65 3 d) Bloxham reliability and resilience issues ............................................................................................... 66 5) BROADBAND ....................................................................................................................... 68 a) General background .............................................................................................................................. 68 b) Home Broadband .................................................................................................................................. 68 c) Business Broadband .............................................................................................................................. 69 d) Rural broadband ................................................................................................................................... 70 6) MOBILE PHONE RECEPTION .......................................................................................... 74 a) Types of coverage (2G, 3G, 4G) .............................................................................................................. 74 b) 2G National Coverage ............................................................................................................................ 74 c) 3G Coverage .......................................................................................................................................... 75 d) 4G Coverage .......................................................................................................................................... 75 e) Coverage for your Postcode and your provider ..................................................................................... 75 f) Bloxham Survey of Mobile Reception .................................................................................................... 75 g) Liaison with mobile providers ............................................................................................................... 77 7) TRAFFIC IN BLOXHAM ..................................................................................................... 79 a) Traffic – General context ....................................................................................................................... 79 b) Traffic – Oxfordshire County Council context ........................................................................................ 80 c) The Cherwell Context ............................................................................................................................ 82 d) The Bloxham Context. ........................................................................................................................... 85 8) FLOODING ......................................................................................................................... 105 a) The general concern ............................................................................................................................ 105 b) The Global context .............................................................................................................................. 105 c) The Thames Valley Context ................................................................................................................. 105 d) The Oxfordshire Context ..................................................................................................................... 106 e) The Bloxham Context .......................................................................................................................... 107 9) BUSINESS IN BLOXHAM ................................................................................................ 121 a) General background ............................................................................................................................ 122 4 b) Existing Employment Land in Bloxham ................................................................................................ 125 c) Additional Employment Land in Bloxham ............................................................................................ 125 d) Do we need additional Employment Land in Bloxham? ....................................................................... 125 e) What should we do about employment land? ..................................................................................... 126 f) Retail provision ................................................................................................................................... 126 10) SOME ECONOMIC DATA ABOUT BLOXHAM ........................................................... 127 a) Bloxham Occupations .......................................................................................................................... 127 b) Gathering Local information ................................................................................................................ 127 c) Online Questionnaire .......................................................................................................................... 127 i) Additional Data extracted from the Parish Plan (2010) on Traffic and Parking. ................................... 138 a. What is the employability of Bloxham residents? ................................................................................ 142 b. What is the current employment situation? ........................................................................................ 142 c. How many businesses are there in Bloxham? ...................................................................................... 142 d. What types of employment would you expect in a Cotswold edge town?