{"id":18004,"date":"2017-02-06T21:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18004"},"modified":"2017-02-06T21:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:42:49","slug":"oxfordshire-unitary-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18004","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire Unitary Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17020601.jpg\" alt=\"One Oxfordshire\" \/><br \/>\nProposals to reduce the number of local councils from three levels to two look increasingly likely. Consultation information can be found on the table near the entrance of Abingdon Library for the &#8216;One Oxfordshire&#8217; proposal already launched by the leaders of Oxfordshire County Council. Responses to that consultation, which can also be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200127055721\/https:\/\/www.oneoxfordshire.org\/\">http:\/\/www.oneoxfordshire.org\/<\/a>, end on 28th February 2017.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17020602.jpg\" alt=\"A Unitary Oxfordshire\" \/><br \/>\nThe leaders of the Vale of White Horse District Council, and South Oxfordshire, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewbarber.co.uk\/news\/unitary-proposal-better-oxfordshire\">have also announced today<\/a> that they want to work together with Oxfordshire County Council to develop a proposal for a unitary council that represents the best deal for the people of Oxfordshire. They say they hope all the councils will be involved.<\/p>\n<p>A unitary council running the joint County Council and District Council services would include the following&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>County Council Services:<\/strong><br \/>\nChild protection<br \/>\nFostering and adoption<br \/>\nAdult social services<br \/>\nEducational Support<br \/>\nRoads and transport<br \/>\nFire and Rescue service<br \/>\nWaste disposal<br \/>\nPublic Health<br \/>\nLibraries<br \/>\nTrading Standards<br \/>\nCountryside access<br \/>\nParking<\/p>\n<p><strong>District\/city council services:<\/strong><br \/>\nHousing and benfits<br \/>\nParks and leisure<br \/>\nLocal planning<br \/>\nStreet cleaning<br \/>\nWaste collection<br \/>\nEnvironmental health<br \/>\nConcil tax collection<br \/>\nElectoral registration<\/p>\n<p>We will have to see how the proposals develop, but Abingdon Town Council would continue to provide local services in some areas, and might gain some local services as three layers of council is reduced to two. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council provides<\/strong>:<br \/>\nGuildhall and Museum<br \/>\nInformation Centre<br \/>\nAllotments<br \/>\nCemeteries<br \/>\nParks and Open Spaces<br \/>\nChristmas Lights<br \/>\nMarket Place, markets and fairs<br \/>\nFisheries<br \/>\nAbingdon in Bloom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposals to reduce the number of local councils from three levels to two look increasingly likely. Consultation information can be found on the table near the entrance of Abingdon Library for the &#8216;One Oxfordshire&#8217; proposal already launched by the leaders of Oxfordshire County Council. Responses to that consultation, which can also be found at http:\/\/www.oneoxfordshire.org\/, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}