Reposting Cllr Rowe's call for action - please do help him to help us restore local mobile signal, by responding in support of this pre-application so that Colchester City Council are fully aware of all local issues caused by the removal of the previous mast. (The consultation closing date is currently advertised as 12th November, […]

Save the Date: Local Plan Public Meeting @LCC, 1st October, 7pm We will be hosting a Public Meeting at the Langham Community Centre at 7pm on the evening of Thursday 1st October with three objectives: (i) to discuss and explain our draft representation on behalf of the village (ii) to seek your support for it […]

At the Local Plan meeting last night, City Councillors voted 11-1 to progress the emerging Local Plan to a second Public Consultation stage (so called "Reg 19", following the "Reg 18" consultation held at the end of last year). The consultation will launch in the next few days, and will run for a 6 week […]

This year's local elections are being held on Thursday 7th May. Elections are being held at Essex County Council level and also at Colchester City Council level. At Essex County level, Langham sits in Constable Division. At Colchester City level, Langham sits in North Ward. Your local polling station will be at Langham Community Centre. […]

Public Consultation Now Open Colchester City Council are now running a public consultation exercise on their draft new Local Plan, which includes the “Langham900” proposal pictured below. The consultation closes on 14th January 2026. They have set up a “virtual exhibition” which gives an overview of their housing and business growth plans for Colchester between […]

Langham Parish Council has commissioned a Local Housing Needs Survey as part of our evidence base to help defend Langham from Colchester City Council's current plans to obliterate the village with a "cow pat" development of more than 900 new houses in the prime farmland at the heart of our small community. The more residents […]

On 17th February, Colchester City Council's Local Plan Committee Meeting voted NOT to recommend approval of the draft Local Plan to go out to public consultation. It would be nice to think that our Langham900 email campaign and the village demonstration outside the Charter Hall played at least a small part in securing this result. […]

The Local Elections are on 2nd May this year. The Official Notices for the various elections can be viewed via the buttons below:

Colchester City Council has just alerted us to a new grant scheme specifically targetted at lower income households in homes not connected to the gas grid. An information session has been scheduled at Langham Community Centre from 10-30am - 2pm Saturday 24th January 2024. But there's no need to wait until then if you think […]