Cllr Eddie Reeves

07/10/2026

Brilliant from Kemi Badenoch - proud to have supported her campaign to be Leader of Conservatives.

01/10/2026

Quiet lanes in our villages will be a disaster.

30/09/2026

Are parking charges affecting how often you shop in, and visit, Banbury and Bicester town centres?

New evening charges and rising daytime charges risk driving shoppers away. Cherwell District Council isn't asking what you think, so we are.

We've had lots of responses so far, and we want to hear yours. Have your say in our two-minute survey 👇

https://www.northoxfordshireconservatives.com/campaigns/we-want-know-what-you-think-about-parking-banbury

26/09/2026

Parking charges are never popular.

My position is that car parking charges in Banbury and Bicester have started to drive shoppers away from our town centres.

Other Cllrs disagree. They say that the revenue is needed to pay for local services and that car parking is a good source of income.

It’s important that residents have their say. Cherwell District Council isn’t listening, but we are.

Tell us what you think - click the link below to fill in our quick and easy survey.

From 28 September, Cherwell District Council is changing what it charges in its Banbury car parks. Free evening parking is ending, so there's now a £1.60 charge between 6pm and 8am. The first hour goes up to £1.60, and all-day parking rises to £7.50.

23/09/2026

This will surprise no-one with any knowledge of who runs Cherwell District Council.

A £1.60 parking charge to park in Banbury and Bicester after 6pm may seem modest, but it will be a psychological barrier to some keen on driving into town of an evening.

Why go to Banbury or Bicester for a curry when you can park for free in Chippy or Brackley?

Suffice it to say, I will be putting another, fully costed amendment to the budget this year with sensible, pro-business measures in mind.

We must support our pubs and restaurants. Making their lives harder cannot be right:

Several Banbury residents and a town-centre shop have expressed outrage after Cherwell District Council increased parking charges at car parks in the town.

17/09/2026

Keeping our town centres tidy is the most of public services.

Last year, North Oxfordshire Conservatives at Cherwell District Council tabled opposition budgets and motions to provide cash-boosts for town centre street-cleaning targeted at overnight cleans, weekend tidy-ups and civic set-pieces like Remembrance Sunday.

Good to see the Council do the right and invest a bit more in this area. More still to do:

https://www.banburyguardian.co.uk/business/banbury-town-centre-set-for-extra-weekend-street-cleaning-as-part-of-ps21500-trial-9079526?fbclid=IwdGRjcAUY-QhwZG9mBWZkaWQWUOk8xtqtAqRy5FcxXarstPTfM95972V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR79l3Erc3wTWoHhUjyvyLEs71pRDTqgTcxTRi7ZD8CdWvJAbWVvuMEi2k_irw_aem_26EbP7mHAd1cOaTYs9bjKQ

Cherwell District Council has approved extra street cleaning in Banbury town centre over the weekend as part of a new trial.

16/09/2026

15/09/2026

🚨An update on Site A, near Piddington.

Do, please, tune into the Cherwell District Council's Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday 16 September.

More below 👇

12/09/2026

📢 URGENT ACTION NEEDED, PLEASE: ONE CLICK TO SUPPORT SAVING CHERWELL VILLAGES FROM 13 MASSIVE WAREHOUSES 📢

Please consider supporting the Stoke Lyne Action Team's efforts to protect our open countryside from being destroyed by massive logistics warehouses.

The team is fighting an urgent battle to stop Baynards Green from being industrialised. This will affect villages in the Deddington ward, including Fritwell, Somerton and Souldern, together with Clifton, Deddington and the Astons.

In January, Cherwell District Council's Planning Committee rightly refused these warehouse schemes. But the developers appealed, and the administration at Cherwell District Council has chosen not to defend its own committee's decision.

Unless residents demonstrate a united front to Councillors and Council officers, our villages could be left undefended at the upcoming planning appeal.

Please consider acting now. Either option takes less than a minute of your time.

👉 OPTION 1: Send a pre-written email to Cherwell District Council.

The following link automatically addresses the email directly to the Council's key leadership figures, copying in the Stoke Lyne Action Team - just add your name and postcode at the bottom, where indicated

📬 https://telegra.ph/Baynards-Green-Full-Email-to-Council-09-11

👉 OPTION 2: Sign the Open Letter.

Want to read the full case or sign the collective petition directly? Head to https://stokelyneactionteam.co.uk and log your support.

Let's stand together and protect our villages from the wrong development in the wrong place. Please share this post to get the word out.

For anything else, please get in touch - my email address is below.

All the best,

Cllr Eddie Reeves
Cherwell District Councillor for Deddington (including all the villages from Fritwell in the East to Hook Norton Village in the West)
📧 [email protected]

The Stoke Lyne Action Team is asking residents to write to the Council and tell them that Baynards Green must not be allocated for warehouses in the Local Plan. OPEN PRE-FILLED EMAIL If the link does nothing on Facebook, tap the three dots and choose Open in browser. To: [email protected]...

10/09/2026

Cross-party credit should go to Sean Woodcock MP for raising Oxfordshire County Council's proposed closure of the Henry Cornish Care Centre in Chipping Norton.

The facility has been well used by Deddington ward residents in Hook Norton Village, Wigginton Oxfordshire, Swerford & South Newington among others.

Please consider signing the public petition on Change.org here:

https://www.change.org/p/stop-henry-cornish-care-centre-closure?recruiter=1429069364&recruited_by_id=3890d310-ac81-11f1-911a-d3341c2b6345&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=starter_onboarding_share_personal&utm_medium=copylink&share_id=Q29RtGjYBN&ref=ed_direct

More here on the detail from the Oxford Mail:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26538651.fury-proposed-closure-oxfordshire-care-home/

I have submitted a motion to Cherwell District Council's next meeting of Full Council to request that the administration reviews the likely effect on our villages and makes representations to Oxfordshire County Council to ensure that there is robust governance of such a sensitive decision.

Residents and local politicians have reacted with anger over the councils plans to close an Oxfordshire care home.