{"id":29546,"date":"2022-08-22T22:49:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29546"},"modified":"2022-08-22T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T21:49:59","slug":"vale-and-south-district-councils-to-be-temporarily-based-in-abbey-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29546","title":{"rendered":"Vale and South district councils temporarily based in Abbey House, Abingdon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022082201.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Councils have terminated the lease of the office building in Milton Park. They say in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk\/uncategorised\/district-councils-to-be-temporarily-based-in-abingdon\/\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;At the end of September, to significantly reduce unnecessary costs, we will be moving to some temporary office space in the Vale\u2019s Abbey House building in the centre of Abingdon where we plan to stay for a couple of years while South Oxfordshire District Council completes the development of a new office building at Didcot Gateway.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been based at Milton Park since the summer of 2015, a few months after an arson attack at our headquarters at Crowmarsh Gifford, near Wallingford.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the building in Abingdon is being leased by Oxfordshire County Council, but there is a small amount of available office space on the ground floor.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The press release then explains why the move to Abingdon is temporary:<\/p>\n<p><em>While Abbey House will be a suitable office location for the short term, over the longer term, the councils will need <strong>more collaboration<\/strong> and <strong>non-desk based space<\/strong>, in a <strong>more energy efficient building<\/strong>. This will help us meet our targets to become carbon neutral councils and will also help both councils to continue to improve our financial sustainability and offer the flexibility we need to recruit and retain staff in an increasingly challenging jobs market.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Councils have terminated the lease of the office building in Milton Park. They say in a press release. &#8216;At the end of September, to significantly reduce unnecessary costs, we will be moving to some temporary office space in the Vale\u2019s Abbey House building in the centre [&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-29546","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\/29546","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=29546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}