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Urgent and Important Notices
Langham Lane is to be
closed for repairs to the road from
Monday
14th ... for 5 days.
Access will be available
to residents and businesses in the road. This is all we know
at the moment; presumably diversion notices will be put up
on the surrounding roads, and there will be congestion in
unusual places until people get used to the situation.
The closure will be
inconvenient for residents, but I’m sure we are pleased that
something is being done to improve the condition of this
road.
On the same theme ….
Langham Parish Council has
invited Mr Geoff Harris to a meeting of the council on 30th
September. He has accepted the invitation and had agreed to
answer resident’s questions. There are a number of pressing
issues concerning roads and footways in the Langham area
and, according to the level of interest in this meeting, we
will organise a larger room to accommodate the public.
If you have a question to
ask of Mr Harris it would be useful to have it in writing
beforehand. This will enable full answers to be given on the
night of the meeting. Please forward your questions to the
Parish Clerk at
dcwinter@hotmail.co.uk
Outreach Post
Office
The Outreach Post Office
service at the Community Shop has been operating for three
sessions. There have been a number of difficulties, with the
computer not working for two sessions (so no cash) and not
all the required services available in the other session.
People have also expressed concerns about both the security
of the new service and the lack of privacy during
transactions. Of course, these two considerations would
disappear in the security cage is retained ... and we do
want to keep the service we have left, of course!
Opening times for the Post Office are
now:
Mondays and Thursdays 9.30 - 11.30
If you have concerns about
the service please pass these quickly to the Parish Clerk at
dcwinter@hotmail.co.uk These
concerns can then be passed on to interested parties, such
as Essex CC, the RCCE
Park and Ride
There will be an
opportunity to view proceedings in the Town Hall when the
proposals for a Langham Park and Ride will be discussed on
Thursday July 3rd. Member of the public are
welcome to attend, but will not have the right to speak.
EVENTS FOR
JULY and AUGUST
Newsletter July/August
2008
Newsletter June 2008
Newsletter May 2008
Parish
Newsletter April 2008
Parish Newsletter
March 2008
Parish Newsletter Feb 2008
page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4
July
Tuesday 2nd July 2.30 Langham Good
Companions Langham Community Centre
(Peter Simpson: “Be warm—be safe; doorstep safety”)
Sunday
6th at 8.30 Eucharist (BCP)
Sunday
13th at 10.00 Sung Eucharist
Sunday
20th at 8.30 Eucharist (BCP)
Sunday 27th at 10.00
Al-age Eucharist
Tuesday 29th Langham Parish Council
August
Sunday 3rd August no service
Wednesday 6thAugust Langham Good
Companions Garden
Party
Sunday 10th August 10.00 Sung
Eucharist
Thursday
14th August Langham WI 7.30
Langham Community Centre
(Mrs J Gibbs: “My Life in Rural
Turkey”)
Sunday 17th August no service
Sunday 24th August 10.00
Sung Eucharist
Sunday 31st August 10.00
Sung Eucharist
Langham Parish Council No
meeting in August
Langham Footpath Walk
Walks resume 12 October
Local Election Results
The Dedham and Langham Ward
returned Christopher Garnett as Ward Councillor; the turnout was
the highest in the borough.
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CATNEY, Carolyn
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Liberal Democrats
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102 |
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GARNETT, Christopher*
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The Conservative Party
Candidate |
895 (Elected) |
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MAXWELL, Andrew R.
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The Labour Party Candidate
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46 |
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MOOG, Sandra A.
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Green Party
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38 |
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Turnout
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45.62% |
All of
the Colchester results are on the Borough website
click here
The Parish Council
There was no election this year as
there were insufficient candidates for a contest. As a result
all present councillors, with the exception of Simon Gallup, who
declined to stand again, were returned.
Langham CD, 2nd Edition - now
out!
This CD is a much-enlarged
version of the original, completed only after the unveiling of
the Airfield memorial, that
generated even more material! A real treasure trove of local
history!
Langham, a Pictorial History, is a
P.C. based CD which is interactive and multimedia and contains
well over 1700 photographs and 60,000 words. The CD is available
from the Community Shop, price £5, or by post to any UK address
for £6. Any profits from the sale of the CD will go to the
Community Shop. Orders for a CD to be posted should be sent
direct to S.Gallup, Bakers, School Road, Langham, Colchester.
CO4 5PA, together with a cheque, made out to S.Gallup, for £6.
Airfield Memorial unveiled -
April 19 2008 a first look at
the photographs
Service 247 Bus Timetable
Post Office
It was announced in the Essex County Standard on
Friday, February 8, that the Post Office at Langham will close, and
be replaced by an outreach service.
The Wivenhoe Postmaster, Alan Buck, will provide
outreach services to Langham, Birch and East Mersea.
Langham will
receive 5 hours of services a week at the Community Shop, provided
in two sessions.
The arguments
used to prevent the closure were related to access to alternative
sites, and the impact on the only retail outlet in the community.
These arguments were endorsed by Post Office chiefs in front of a
Select Committee in the House of Commons .. but in our case, and I
suspect most others, to no avail.
Post Office page
Village
Design Statement.
The Annual General Meeting of the Langham Village Design Statement Association
was held on Tuesday 19th February at 7.30pm in the Community Centre.
Report
of AGM
A
reading of the latest draft of the Village Design Statement
was held in the Community Centre from 10-12am. on
Saturday 5 April. There was a good turn out and the half
dozen proof copies were in hot demand. The comments were
constructive, corrective and welcomed, and the document
is now with the printer's (12th April).
Langham
Bonfire Night.
Again we had good weather for the Bonfire Night and there was a very good
attendance. It was an excellent evening and about £5000 was made for the
village. Many thanks to all who worked so hard to make the evening
possible.
The
War Memorial and the American Monument.
The War Memorial, the entrance arch to the Primary School,
has been subsiding and tilting to one side and had become dangerous. As it is on
land belonging to County they agreed to pay for the rebuilding of the arch. The
new arch is exactly the same as the original one but is a little further from
the road so that the footpath at that point will be wider than before. A time
capsule has been buried in one of the columns giving a snapshot of the community
in 2007. As part of the rebuilding the plaques have been renewed and are now
easier to read. The American Monument in Park Lane is also being restored and
the plinth has been clad, with the lettering and a map incised into the stone.
On 11th November the War Memorial was re-dedicated and wreaths were laid on it
and on the American Monument. A grant has now been received for the final phase
of the renovation of the Monument and this will entail building a wall
around the back of the plinth, flagpoles and hard landscaping of the area.
The
final phase of the American Monument will be formally opened and
re-dedicated on Saturday 19th April by the US Air Attaché, Colonel
Hosken, and Revd. Tim Bull. The ceremony will be at 11.30 and then, from
2pm - 5pm, there will be an exhibition in the Community Centre about
Langham during the Second War. Refreshments will be provided by the W.I.
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The War Memorial on 11/11/07 |
The Monument on 11/11/07 |
Photographs
of Langham today
A
website run by Andrew Stacey contains a large number of photographs of Langham
as well as a large number of other local photographs with a geographical theme.
Click
here to visit the site
The
Horkesley Park Heritage and Conservation Centre
The previous applications from the Buntings for this centre have been withdrawn
because of concerns from the public. Some of the concerns are about the large
number of anticipated visitors and hence the impact on local roads and others
are about the large retail aspect of the application. A new application has now
been submitted and details can be seen on
www.horkesleypark.co.uk
The comments from the Stour Valley Action Group can be seen on
www.stourvalleyactiongroup.org.uk
Proposed
gypsy site
This long running saga rumbles on, for the current situation and background
click
here.
Please pass any
comments or contribution to either
Simon
Gallup
or
Andrew Stacey
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