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Send us your South Oxhey images
Send us your own images of South Oxhey for a new gallery. The Diamond Jubilee week-end is a good opportunity. Send them to website@southoxheylabour.org.uk
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Clean sweep for Labour
LABOUR CANDIDATES made a clean sweep in Three Rivers District Council elections for South Oxhey wards on Thursday 3rd May, holding one and winning two others, from an English Democrat (elected as BNP) and Tory. Read more here.
In Watford Borough Council elections, Labour gained two seats from the Liberal Democrats: read more about the Watford results here. Sunday working: South Oxhey shop worker speaks up William Waite
Local shop worker William Waite has spoken out against the government's plans to allow unlimited Sunday shopping everywhere in the UK during the Olympics and Paralympics.
William, who is also a Parish Councillor for Northwick ward, says that many South Oxhey residents work in the retail sector, and he is concerned that their quality of life is under threat by this measure. "Many shop workers are already being put under pressure to work on Sundays against their will, and of course this is going to get much worse now. Shop workers have a right to enjoy leisure and a normal family life." Read more on the USDAW website.
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South Oxhey Initiative: new consultations
Local households have received a Master Plan of the proposed changes from Three Rivers District Council. A new public consultation exercise has also been announced. Labour Councillors vow to ensure that South Oxhey residents are clearly heard. Read more here.
Almost one in four buses has been axed from number 2 routeChanges came into effect on 1st April No. 2: cut by Conservatives
The near 25% cut in journeys to and from Watford between Mondays and Fridays came into effect on 1 April. The Saturday frequency remains the same.
Although an extra service has been provided on weekday mornings between 7am and 8am, Arriva have slashed the number of buses between 9am and 2pm from three an hour to just two. The bus company said that the government had cut their Bus Service Operators Grant which kept fuel costs down. Funding to cover free bus pass trips had also been removed. Services on the number 8 route linking the estate to Mount Vernon, Watford and Abbots Langley were thankfully unaffected this time. Street lights fiasco - sign petition
Tory and Lib Dem Councillors have been left with egg on their faces and the taxpayers with a huge bill as their £4.5
million street light turn-off has turned into a fiasco. All over South Oxhey and Watford, the expensive mechanisms installed to turn off the lights have failed, plunging streets into darkness during the early evening - in many cases from 7.00pm. Read more and sign our petition here. |
