We are fast approaching our popular Christmas Lights event! Join us for Faringdon’s Christmas Lights Switch On in the Market Place, this Saturday 30th November 2024, 1pm to 6pm. There will be a Craft Fair in the Corn Exchange, arranged by Faringdon Art Society, Santa’s Grotto, fairground rides and market stalls in the Market Place….
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Junior Youth Group is back
The Junior Youth Group returns and takes part at All Saints’ Barber Rooms. Details below:

Today: Have Your Say surgery by the Police & Anti-Social Behaviour Awareness Week
The Police will be set up under the Old Town Hall today (Wednesday 20 November) from 12.30-1.30pm for their “Have Your Say Event”. Come along and chat to them about any feedback you may have. Further to this, Anti-Social Behaviour (ABS) Awareness Week runs from 18th-24th November 2024. This is a national campaign focused on…

Parking Proposal from Oxfordshire County Council
Faringdon Town Council is undertaking an informal public consultation on informal parking restriction proposals and invite comments from the community. This informal consultation will be from 14 November to 9 January 2025. Please provide any comments to [email protected] with ‘Parking Restrictions Consultation’ as an email subject or by writing to Faringdon Town Council, The Pump…

Faringdon War Memorial Wreaths 2024
1. The King2. Royal British Legion3. Burma Star4. Blind Veterans5. Cofepow6. The Rifles 7. House of Commons 8. Oxon County council* Ex WI & Royal British Legion, laid on the 11th November9. Faringdon Town Council 10. Vale of White Horse District Council11. South Central Ambulance12. The Defence Academy13. R.A.F. Brize Norton14. United States Visiting Forces15….

Temporary Road Closure at Abingdon, Noah’s Ark, Wantage Road
In the interests of public safety; it will be necessary for Oxfordshire County Council to close the road as detailed above in order to facilitate install temporary MASS barriers on both approaches to Noah’s Ark 1 Bridge A temporary Notice is being made to implement the temporary closure and will operate for 24 November 2024…

Primary School place deadline: 15th January 2025
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Posters to Discourage Trick or Treaters
Thames Valley Police have provided halloween posters that can be printed and displayed to keep trick or treaters away:

Public survey on proposals to reduce the minimum timeframe to charge a council tax premium on long-term empty properties
South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils have launched a public survey on proposals to reduce the minimum timeframe to charge a council tax premium on long-term empty properties. Currently, the councils allow a maximum duration of up to two years for a domestic property to remain unoccupied and substantially unfurnished before an…

Planning and Highways meeting to be held on 21st October 2024
Notice is hereby given of a meeting of Full Council to be held on Monday 21st October 2024 at 7.00pm in The Jubilee Room, The Pump House, Faringdon, SN7 7HL. Press and public are invited to attend the meeting in person or online. Please use this link: Join the meeting now 001. Agenda 02. DRAFT UNAPPROVED…