About this site
An independent community website for Woodcote – including Checkendon, Crays Pond, Ipsden and Goring Heath.
Who runs it
This site is run by a Woodcote resident, as a volunteer. It is not connected to Woodcote Parish Council, the Village Hall, the churches or the Woodcote Correspondent, and nothing here is an official notice. If something matters – a meeting, a bin day, a bus – check with the organisation that runs it.
How it works
Most of the information is collected automatically from public websites and open data, and the site is updated every four hours. Pages also update themselves while you have them open, so past events drop off and "open now" and bus times stay current between rebuilds. If a source stops working, the site keeps showing the last information it collected rather than going blank.
Every listing names where it came from. Events are marked Confirmed (the organiser has published the date), Expected (it has happened at this time in previous years, but the date isn't announced yet) or Regular (a weekly or monthly fixture).
Council summaries
The short summaries of parish council minutes and agendas are drafted with the help of AI (Anthropic's Claude), working from the council's own published documents. Summaries are published automatically. The process was tested while it was set up. If you spot a mistake, please tell us.
Summaries do not name members of the public, and leave out items the council discussed in closed session. They are a guide only – the council's own minutes are the official record, and each summary links to them.
Directory
The directory is built from Food Standards Agency hygiene records and OpenStreetMap, plus details found through Google Search, local adverts and businesses' own websites. Opening hours come from sources such as CAMRA, Oxfordshire County Council, the NHS, Royal Mail and the businesses' own listings – each entry says where its hours came from and when. Hours change, so ring ahead if it matters.
If you know a place has closed, moved or changed its hours, use the "Closed or wrong? Tell us" link on its listing.
Run a business, club or venue that's missing or out of date? Email us and we'll fix it.
Planning applications
Planning applications come from South Oxfordshire District Council's published weekly lists. We show the reference, the site address (including the house number or name, as the council does), what's proposed, the date comments close and the decision, with a link to the full application on the council's site. We do not show applicants' or agents' names.
Corrections and news
If something is wrong or missing, email updates@woodcote.live. You can send event details, posters and corrections there too.
Privacy
This site does not use cookies, analytics or tracking, and you don't need an account. The font is served from this site, not from Google.
If you pick your normal bin collection day, that choice is remembered in your own browser so you don't have to choose again. It is never sent to us, and you can clear it by clearing your browser's site data for this site.
If you email the updates address, your message is read so we can add or correct information. Your name and email address are never published, and we only use them to reply to you.
Sources
- Events – church – A Church Near You (Woodcote, Checkendon, Ipsden, Goring Heath, Whitchurch Hill)Live
- Events – village hall – woodcotevillagehall.com (diary dates and ticketed events)Live
- Council – woodcoteparish.gov.uk – meeting dates, agendas and minutes (summaries written with AI and published automatically)Live
- Planning – South Oxfordshire District Council weekly list of applicationsLive
- Buses – Bus Open Data Service (timetables and live bus positions)Live
- Bins – South Oxfordshire District Council waste calendar (S1)Live
- Flood warnings – Environment AgencyLive
- Power cuts – SSEN PowerTrack (checked live when you open the page)Live
- Road closures – Oxfordshire County Council roadworks news and maintenance programme, plus a link to the one.network live mapLive
- Sport – Club details from FA Full-Time, Play-Cricket and the clubs' own websites, with links to their fixtures and results; Woodcote 10K date from the Village Hall diary and the race websiteLive
- Sports centre – The Oratory Sports Centre's public booking timetable (swimming, gym, squash, golf), checked every morning; prices and hours from the school's sports centre pageLive
- Directory – Food Standards Agency, OpenStreetMap, plus details found through Google Search, local adverts and businesses' own websites and listings (CAMRA, council, NHS, Royal Mail)Live
- Map – OpenStreetMapLive
- Local news – Henley Standard, Oxfordshire County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council – headlines and links onlyLive
- Schools – Ofsted inspection results read from reports.ofsted.gov.uk once a month; term dates and INSET days read automatically each week from each school's published dates and Oxfordshire County Council (Langtree's documents are added manually because its website blocks automated visitors)Live
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence. Food hygiene ratings from the Food Standards Agency, used under the Open Government Licence. Bus timetables from the Bus Open Data Service.