Changelog

The page had said since mid-June that no start on site had been reported. What the parish actually recorded, back in March, was that demolition might begin before the end of that month and that it had asked for the traffic management plan — and nothing published since says whether either happened. The page now says exactly that. It also explains something that was missing: the site's address is in Holton, a different parish, so it is Holton Parish Council that is formally consulted on it and not Wheatley's — which is why the applications deciding how the build is run never reach Wheatley's planning agenda. And the outline permission is now described plainly: the district refused it, and it exists because an appeal was allowed in 2020.

Wheatley Parish Council holds four public meetings a month — planning on the second Wednesday, full council on the first Monday, and open spaces and finance sharing the third. This page gives the next date for each, where it is (the Parish Office or the Merry Bells — they are different buildings), and the rules for speaking: thirty minutes for the public, five minutes each, nothing to book. Anyone can turn up.

How South Oxfordshire's collections work — the weekly food caddy, the recycling and rubbish bins on alternating fortnights, and what goes in each — with a live check of the official bank-holiday calendar to flag when a collection is running a day late. It always points you to the council's checker for your own street's day.

The questions Wheatley keeps asking — trades and house help, the best of the High Street, the best way into Oxford, groups and clubs, family life — answered by the people who live here. Anyone can read it; adding an answer or a vote takes a free account. Handy as 447 new homes bring new neighbours to the village.

A colored-pencil banner of the restored stone tower mill and its sails on the rise, with the patchwork of Oxfordshire fields and village rooftops beyond.

A new calculator compares the real yearly cost of the three ways into Oxford — the 400 bus, driving in and parking, and the Thornhill park-and-ride. Set how many days a week you go and, if you like, your own car's fuel economy, and it shows the cost of each and which is cheapest for you. It counts running costs only (fuel, parking and fares) and says so, and the fares it uses are dated with links to check the live prices.

The windmill answer no longer lists an open day that has already passed. Remaining 2026 dates are 12 July, 9 August, 13 September and 11 October.

Wheatley is a village of about 4,300 people in South Oxfordshire, five miles east of Oxford — a quarter of its residents are over 65, and its bus network changed twice in eighteen months, so we started with the things people actually look up. Three tools to begin with: - **Where's the bus?** shows live positions for the 400, N400, 46, 49, 275 and the summer WP1 — how far away each bus is in plain words ("about 2 miles away on the Oxford side, heading this way"), with scheduled frequencies and full timetable links. Live data comes from the Department for Transport's Bus Open Data Service. - **Common questions** answers the recurring ones: which week the green and black bins go out, what's happening on the old Brookes campus, how to register at Morland House, the windmill's open Sundays, and how to get the Wheatley Newsletter. - **Who to call** untangles the three councils — bins and planning to the district, potholes and schools to the county, allotments and open spaces to the parish — plus health, police and the Good Neighbour Scheme, with hours and tappable numbers. Every fact was checked against an official page on 12 June 2026.

Ten research notes on the village: demographics, the A40-dependent geography, civic services (bins, buses, schools), what residents say in forums and reviews, and the 447-home campus redevelopment starting in 2026. This research will guide the first tools.