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AGM 2025
Please save the date for the annual Langford Village Community Meeting.
Wednesday 8th October at 7.30pm in the Langford Village Community Centre Hall.
London Road March – Thursday 17th July
East West Rail will lead to the closure of London Road. A pedestrian bridge would be totally inadequate. We need an underpass so people can still get about. Show your support! Join the rally from the Methodist Church, Sheep Street at 4.15pm on Thursday 17 July.
VE Day 80 Event in the Hall
UPDATED: A Very big THANK YOU to everyone who joined us at this event.
Langford’s own Thursday Circle is holding a VE Day 80 event in the Hall from 2 to 4pm on Thursday 8th May. Come along and wear your red, white and blue colours for music and a 1940s singalong.
Everyone’s welcome, please just contribute £1 each to help towards the provision of refreshments during the afternoon.
Anyone with questions about this event can also contact Sandra by email (bookings@lvca.org.uk)
New 20mph speed limit gets the go ahead
A new maximum speed limit of 20mph on Langford’s roads will be introduced following a decision taken at Oxfordshire County Council (0CC).
OCC’s Cabinet Member for Transport Management, Councillor Andrew Gant, dismissed objections, including that of the Langford Village Community Association which had submitted evidence to indicate why it considered that the change here was unnecessary..
All Langford’s estate roads, with the exception of part of Gavray Drive, will now become 20mph.
A total of 704 people had responded to the online consultation organised by OCC before the decision to go ahead was taken and 69% of those responding objected to the 20mph plans.
Proposed 20mph limits on Langford
Oxfordshire County Council has a proposal out for consultation until February 14th to reduce all 30mph speed limits on all Bicester’s estate roads to 20mph. Please respond individually to the consultation as once again it will be the quantity of responses that will count in any final decision. The consultation closes at 5pm on Friday 14th February 2025.
To get to the consultation survey page please CLICK HERE
LVCA (Langford Village Community Association) has discussed and reached a conclusion to oppose the proposal after assessing the facts shown here :
FACT 1:
After two years’ worth of data collected from our speed awareness camera, Langford Village does not have a speeding problem. There are only 14.5% of vehicles travelling above 30mph compared to a national average of 50%. The 14.5% breaks down to 12% between 30 and 35mph, 2% at 35 to 40mph and 0.5% above 40mph. The above 50mph tends to be late at night or in the early hours of the morning.
FACT 2:
There is not a speeding issue outside school at drop off/ pick up times, again verified by the speed awareness camera. Due to the large number of vehicles parked, it is not possible to drive at any speed along Peregrine Way.
FACT3:
Accident figures from OCC for the last 6 years – 2019 to 2024 show a total of 4 accidents in 6 years, none involving speeding, and no reported accidents on New Langford.
2019: one accident
Ø a car turning into a parking area in the dark, hit a pedestrian, slight injury
2020: no accidents
2021: no accidents
2022: two accidents
Ø a goods vehicle reversed into a pedestrian causing serious injury
Ø A car and bike both turning left car caught bike, slight injury
2023: no accidents
2024: one accident
Ø a car reversed into a pedestrian, slight injury
Anecdotal Feedback:
Residents in Launton, which now has a 20mph speed limit, say it has made the road more dangerous as impatient drivers are now overtaking cars doing 20mph.
The conclusion of the LVCA committee is:
There is no evidence to warrant a reduction in the speed limit for Langford Village, therefore we are opposing the proposal on the facts above and our concerns are that we could create an issue with cars overtaking those doing 20mph making the estate roads more dangerous. The money could be better spent on repairing the road surfaces – in particular Gavray Drive where vehicles are using the wrong side of the road to avoid the horrendous bumps that are back once again.
Langford Village Community Association Committee
London Road: Online responding to the consultation
Once you’ve read this article, come back and CLICK HERE to go straight to the front page of the online form that we’re all asked to complete by 24th January. This will open a new tab and display the screen that you see below.
(We’ve added the orange arrows to help direct you and have called this ‘Step 1’)
Please note you ONLY need to use the ‘Oxford to Bletchley’ section of the form to comment on London Road. You do NOT need to complete any other route sections.
Next you should go through a few online pages that ask for your name and other information. Please complete this until you reach a page shown below. This is the start of the Oxford to Bletchley section of the online form (we’ve put in the arrow and called it Step 2, as below).
Now the very important bit!
On the next page YOU MUST SELECT THE ‘OTHER‘ INDICATOR shown by our arrow. Then go on to write your comments about what you want to happen (i.e. for EWR to ensure continuing access for vehicles across the rail line) in the box at the bottom of this screen.
Then just keep clicking on the ‘Next Page’ buttons until you reach the pages at the very end and eventually the Submit Feedback Form button.
That’s it, all done!
Except our local MP, Calum Miller, who’s also fighting to Keep London Road Open, is requesting that you also email him the comments you’ve made. His email address is calum.miller.mp@parliament.uk and we do urge you to please do this as well.
You might also like to write to the Transport Minister responsible for railways. This is Lord Peter Hendy and his email is hendyp@parliament.uk
Thank you everyone for all your support!
Public Meeting re London Road Crossing
Join us at a public meeting to cover next steps in the campaign to ensure continued access for all vehicles and pedestrians across the East West Rail route in Bicester once the London Road level crossing is permanently closed by EWR/Network Rail.
Monday 6th January 7.30pm at Langford Village Community Centre, OX26 6XX.
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Port Tasting in the Hall
Save the Date! Specialist tea tasting will also be available as an alternative to Port and Sherry tasting. Just turn up on the evening but if you’ve any questions about this LVCA event please email Sandra (bookings@lvca.org.uk). We look forward to seeing you there!
The Annual General Meeting 2024
A very big ‘thank you’ to all Langford’s residents and friends who came along to the LVCA AGM in the Hall. It was one of the best ever attendances for the community meeting – despite the heavy rain outside.
Thank you also to all the speakers who joined us to relay latest news and information, including Calum Miller the new MP for Bicester and Woodstock.
The Minutes of the meeting, held on Thursday 26th September, will be published here soon.
Meanwhile, the Chairman’s Report, as presented at the meeting is already available here.
Information presented as the Treasurer’s Report is also available here.
