The Langford Medical Practice building in Nightingale Place will continue to remain open now that an announcement has been made that relocation to Graven Hill is no longer possible.
Alchester Medical Group, which has its surgeries at Langford and Victoria House, on Buckingham Road, has revealed that a funding gap has prevented the relocation project moving ahead with its development partner Assura and health service commissioners not being able to reach a satisfactory agreement.
A full statement about the ending of the Bicester Health and Wellbeing Hub project is provided on the Alchester website and can be found here.
How it would have looked. The Proposed Bicester Health Hub at Graven Hill (Architect’s Design)
Watch the BBC South TV report by Angela Walker and featuring the LVCA Chairman by clicking below.
Important news is emerging about the 27 bus service for Langford residents. This service will no longer run after 4th September 2022. For more information please click here to read the information provided by Councillor Calum Miller.
The proposed 5G mast would look the same as this one in west Bicester.
The 5G telecom tower proposed for Peregrine Way has failed to win approval of Cherwell District Council and is being refused planning permission. Council officers say the mast would bring ‘demonstrable harm to visual amenity’ and cause detriment to living conditions for nearby residents.
We don’t yet know whether the telecoms firm that wishes to build the mast to improve coverage here will make any alternative proposal or whether it might appeal the decision to refuse it at that spot.
The LVCA was among the organisations and people who objected to the 16m tall mast being placed at the chosen spot and suggested consideration was given to putting it somewhere else on Langford Village.
OBJECTIONS TO PROPOSED SITING OF NEW MAST ON LANGFORD VILLAGE
A number of Langford Village residents have now formally opposed the building of a 16 metre high mast designed to improve coverage for local mobile services and marked to be built on Peregrine Way. The 5G mast and kerbside cabinets, shown in the diagram, would be sited on the verge near the junction with Merlin Way and on the opposite side of the road (see photo in which the position is shown with a traffic cone).
Images from the Langford 5G mast planning application documents
Details first appeared on the Cherwell District Council Planning Register in early July 2022 with local residents then given a short time to send in comments. The application for the mast has been made by telecoms firm CK Hutchison Networks. LVCA shared news of this development on its social media as soon as it was made aware of the application appearing on the Council’s Planning Register.
A Langford facebook poll then showed a clear majority – by 2 to 1 – in favour of the local area having such a mast but with a significant number of comments also arguing that it shouldn’t be placed where indicated but should be built elsewhere instead. One highly suggested location is on the middle of the Peregrine Way roundabout with exits to Falcon Mead and Osprey Close.
Several residents have now written to object to the mast for a number of different reasons and they include the Chairman of LVCA, Carole Hetherington, who has asked that a reconsideration is made on the siting as many more suitable/less intrusive spots could be identified for it in Langford’s community. Other objectors have raised issues of concern about visual impact and some have outlined fears over whether or not there could be an associated effect on health.
To read the comments on the planning register please click here and then find the ‘Supporting Docs’ section. A decision on the mast will need to be made by Cherwell District Council.
A 5G mast with an identical design to the one proposed at Langford Village has recently been installed on Leach Road in west Bicester – as shown here. These masts are around twice the height of a standard lamppost.
Leach Road, west Bicester. (Picture: Derek Finlay)
Brand new bus shelters are now in place for all residents and visitors to our neighbourhood.
The LVCA has campaigned over many years for this facility to be installed and is delighted that it has happened – at long last! The new shelters have been installed by Bicester Town Council.
Our special thanks go to Bicester Town Clerk Phil Evans and Councillors Zoe McLernon and Dan Sames for their work and strong support in helping achieve this for our whole community.
Langford’s new shelters are on Peregrine Way near Nightingale Place
A new District Councillor has been elected to represent residents who live on Langford and some of the adjoining and nearby areas. Chris Pruden, a Liberal Democrat, is now a Cherwell District Councillor following the poll that took place on Thursday 5th May 2022.
The other two councillors who continue to represent Langford (in the Bicester South and Ambrosden ward for Cherwell District Council) are Dan Sames and Nick Cotter.
Result of the 2022 Cherwell District Council election for Bicester South and Ambrosden ward.
Langford Village Community Association (LVCA) has campaigned for many years to get bus shelter facilities for residents living on Langford Village. It now appears that – at last – we’ve some good news and that plans really are in the pipeline for two bus shelters to be installed on our estate.
LVCA would warmly welcome this development as it would be a benefit for the wellbeing of so many people who live here and who rely on buses and public transport.
Although we’re still awaiting firm details of the planned date of installation for the shelters, this news comes as a clear result of LVCA’s collaboration with our local representatives and councils.
A bus shelter on Bicester’s Churchill Road
The shelters will be a great addition to Langford Village in helping people keep dry while waiting for a bus and should help encourage more residents to consider cutting down on their car use by choosing more bus travel instead.
The shelters will be sited on Peregrine Way near to Nightingale Place and will also be helpful to residents who’ll use the bus service to visit the new surgery on Graven Hill once it’s completed towards the end of next year.
