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Local news from around Bampton and available vacancies. Please use the links below to read further. September Parish Council Meeting Monday 26th September 2022 19:00 at The Old School Community Centre, off Church View. ALL WELCOME September 2022 Agenda Bampton Parish Council Events Bampton Recreation Ground Events & Availability Updated contact details for village clubs POST OFFICE OPENING HOURS Mon-Fri 09.00- 17.30 Wed CLOSED Sat 09.00 - 12.30 No 19 Bus Service Bampton Recreation Ground The Downton Abbey Village of Bampton: Documentary featuring Hugh Bonneville NEWCOMERS/NEW INTERESTS? See what your village has to offer DOG OWNERS/WALKERS BE RESPONSIBLE Message in a bottle	It has been announced by Buckingham Palace that Queen Elizabeth II has died. The Parish Council and the people of Bampton are deeply saddened to hear the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. It is confirmed that any flags on council buildings are being flown at half-mast and a Book of Condolence has been opened at St Mary’s Parish Church and will be accessible every day between 10am-4pm, except when church services are taking place, for those who wish to pay their respects. An e-Book of Condolence is also available on website link https://www.royal.uk/royal-family The area around the War Memorial inside the fence has been set aside for those who wish to pay their respects by laying flowers. Bampton Parish Council are currently working on a new and up to date website. Some contact information on the current website may therefore be out of date. We hope this will be up and running by the end of the year and that you will find our new website much easier to use. We're looking for someone to help keep Bampton tidy Bampton Parish Council are currently looking for somebody to help with keeping Bampton tidy. This is a paid part time job which involves some gardening type duties such as cutting grass, weeding, litter picking and cleaning. If you are interested in helping with this please contact the clerk on 01993 851870 or clerk@bamptonoxon-parishcouncil.gov.uk Oxfordshire County Council 20mph consultation We have just received formal notification from OCC about the creation of a Traffic Regulation Order to reduce the speed of traffic in the built up areas in Aston, Cote and Bampton from 30mph to 20 mph. Please follow the link if you wish to make comment to OCC either in support or against the speed reduction. The survey closes on the 19^th August. https://letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/astoncotebampton_20mph2022 Update on introduction of possible 20mph speed limit in Bampton Since Bampton Parish Council (BPC) sought the views of residents during February 2022 about the possible introduction of a 20mph limit, the decision has been made to go ahead with the change and this has been confirmed with Oxfordshire County Council who are the highways authority. They will fund this alteration to the speed limit within the built-up area but currently there is no timescale for the change. The views of those residents that responded to the exercise were published on the BPC Facebook page and showed that 63% of people who replied were in favour of a reduction and 37% were not. We carried out this simple view gathering exercise via our relatively new Facebook Page and through posters inviting people to write to us. For your information here are some further figures from the survey results: Total number of responses received – 410 Total number of responses in support of a 20mph limit counted – 159 Total number of responses not in support of a 20mph limit counted – 95 Total number of responses discounted * – 156 *The number discounted were where irregularities in voting were noted and we were disappointed to see that 155 votes were received from one IP address. As it seems unlikely that this would have occurred by accident, the council is concerned that this may have been an attempt to manipulate what was essentially a simple questionnaire. Unfortunately, this may change how we look to carry out any further exercises where we want residents’ views. You may be interested to know that Parish Councillors are unpaid volunteers who try to work together with the community to maintain and improve the local services run by BPC. We currently have councillor vacancies and so perhaps if you are passionate about helping our community you might like to consider becoming a councillor? If you’re interested we would be delighted to hear from you and request that you contact the Clerk for further information. We are unable to respond directly to comments left on our Facebook page so if residents wish to contact the Council for information they should contact the Clerk to the Parish Council on clerk@bamptonoxon-parishcouncil.gov.uk.