AN environmental campaigner has become the new chairman of South Oxfordshire District Council. Jo Robb was elected at the authority’s annual meeting on Th.
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District council appoints new chair );
Jo Robb has taken on the role with David Turner selected as vice chairman.
She was appointed at the annual meeting yesterday (20) at the council offices in Milton Park, Abingdon.
Councillor Robb, who represents Woodcote and Rotherfield for the Green Party, said: “It is a great honour to have been elected chair by my peers on South Oxfordshire District Council.
“I’d like to thank David Bretherton for his steadfast chairmanship over the past two years.
“He has steered the council through a very challenging period with professionalism, good humour and grace.
“I am looking forward to the next twelve months and to meeting as many residents and community groups as possible and celebrating the remarkable generosity and dedication of our communities and volunteers here in South Oxfordshire.”
Jobs at risk after council opposes lorries licence );
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A ROAD repair firm’s bid to register more lorries in its fleet could go to a public inquiry after being opposed by South Oxfordshire District Council.
Richard Hazell, who co-founded Hazell & Jefferies in 1971, wants permission to keep an additional 20 heavy goods vehicles and four trailers at his depot off Pot Kiln Lane, near Woodcote, where he is licensed for 13 HGVs and four trailers.
He has also asked the Traffic Commissioner if he can keep 15 more on a yard he owns off Penny Royal, Goring Heath, which currently isn’t authorised for storage.
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