{"id":29918,"date":"2022-11-15T21:48:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29918"},"modified":"2022-11-15T21:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T20:48:15","slug":"north-abingdon-growth-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=29918","title":{"rendered":"North Abingdon growth area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022111503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nA lot more houses have been built in the north Abingdon growth area. <\/p>\n<p>A theme is developing on the Kings Gate Estate. Rather than Kings, the names being used are ex-Mayors of Abingdon; the latest to be revealed is George Aird, mayor from 1986 to 1987.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022111501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe developing road name theme on the Abbey Fields estate appears to be ex-Abingdon businesses. Hathaways was the tobacconist in the High Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022111502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBaileys sold and repaired shoes on Bath Street.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022111505.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe entrance driveway to a new shop is being made.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag22\/2022111504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe building is mostly complete and the shop is being kitted out and the car park laid. The opening is expected in December 2022.<\/p>\n<p>As to the Lodge Hill Interchange work, paid for by these developments, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordshire.gov.uk\/residents\/roads-and-transport\/roadworks\/future-transport-projects\/a34-lodge-hill-interchange\">Oxfordshire County Council Website<\/a> says &#8216;Phase One currently consists of submitting a planning application in early October 2022.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think that has happened. Work on Abingdon Bridge was also expected to start in October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot more houses have been built in the north Abingdon growth area. A theme is developing on the Kings Gate Estate. Rather than Kings, the names being used are ex-Mayors of Abingdon; the latest to be revealed is George Aird, mayor from 1986 to 1987. The developing road name theme on the Abbey Fields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918","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=29918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}