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Plaque marks life of former mayor
A BLUE plaque honouring the life of a former Mayor of Abingdon who played a key part in restoring and preserving the town’s historic buildings was unveiled on Monday. The plaque commemorating Arthur Preston was installed at Whitefield house
in Park Crescent – which now Abingdon School’s medical centre – where he lived from 1896 until his death in 1942. Mr Preston fi nanced the excavations of Abingdon Abbey, and brought tennis, croquet and bowling lawns to Albert Park.
• (From left) Chairman of Vale of White Horse District Council, Mike Badcock, Abingdon Town Council archivist, Jackie Smith, headteacher of Abingdon School, Felicity Lusk, Mayor of Abingdon Helen Pighills, and Chairman of Oxford Blue Plaques Robert Evans
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TRAFFIC FEARS AS HOUSING PLAN IS GRANTED PLANS for 73 more houses in Drayton Road have been approved, leading to fears about increased levels of traffic on the already congested route. Last Wednesday Vale of White Horse District Council’s planning committee granted plans for the new development on the border of Drayton village. But with the road already susceptible to heavy congestion at peak times and with 160 homes in the pipeline to be built on the
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road next to Virginia Way, it is thought the problem could get worse. Neil Fawcett, county councillor for Abingdon South, said: “Any extra development on or near Drayton Road is just adding to the already horrendous problem. “Basically the Vale is approving developments one by one and
each on their own is a relatively small development, but overall it’s just adding more and more pressure to the traffic situation.” One of the conditions of the 160-home development being granted permission by the planning inspector was that the pedestrian crossing on nearby Marcham Road would be replaced with two new ones – on Ock Street and further down Marcham Road. • Continues on page 3