Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

Direct services organisation

The Council operates a Direct Services Organisation (DSO) section which is based in a depot at Regis Challow Station, Challow.

The DSO teams carry out work throughout the Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Council areas. They offer a range of services including:

• Unblocking and/or cleaning private drains
• Emptying septic tanks
• Maintaining sewage pumps and pump stations
• Small civil engineering projects including minor drainage repairs
• Car park maintenance work
• Public toilet maintenance work

These services can be carried out for the public, for businesses and Parish Councils.

An Address Management Officer, which is part of DSO, is responsible for property and street naming and numbering, as well as for dealing with requests for temporary road closures within the District.

The DSO teams also provide vital services in times of flooding, including delivering sandbags to people whose homes are most at risk and building sandbag flood defences to protect areas threatened by flooding.

For more information about the work of DSO please see the following pages. If you more information or advice please get in touch with the team - see the contact details on your right.

• Unblocking or clearing drains

• Emptying septic tanks

• Property naming and numbering - information for the public

• Property naming and numbering - information for developers

• Street name plates

• Temporary road closures