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Bicester Local History Society, in partnership with Banbury Museum, will be holding the next in their series of 'Oral History' sessions at 'The Pop-In Centre', Crown Walk, Bicester on Monday 6th September 2010 at 7.30 p.m.
Come along and share some of your memories about the topic we are covering at the session concludes a review of the Sheep Street area of the town as well as looking at the caring services in the form of the cottage hospital, doctors, the fire and ambulance service and the police.
Further details of the project can be found on the Memories page.
EXTRA! We have recently added a 'Local Military History' section to the website. If you want to discover more about this topic then click the tab to the side of the page. At present there is information about the old Roman fortress at Alchester and RAF Bicester. We have added more to cover Bicester in World I and World War II. Recent military connections are not forgotten and a section on Bicester in the Cold War is also available.
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Planning and Local Heritage - new proposed guidelines - see links below.
The Government has issued proposed new guidelines for councils and developers about how they can use "historic assets ....... for imaginative new developments across the country". The new "integrated" planning policy document claims to be about "protecting the historic environment, archaeological sites, historic areas, buildings and landscapes" whilst, at the same time, sending a clear message to councils and planners "that the historic environment should be seen as an asset, not an obstacle to development".
PPS15: Planning for the Historic Environment, is out for public consultation until 30 October 2009. It will eventually provide the overarching context of the reform of the Heritage Protection system;
PPS 15 is accompanied by a Guidance Document, written in conjunction with English Heritage with detailed information on how to apply the policies in the PPS; This is also out for public consultation until 30 October 2009.