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.
Summer Wine Tasting
🍷Advance notice of our next wine tasting event here in Langford Village.
Please register your interest now with an email to bookings@lvca.org.uk 🥂
The London Road Petition is Delivered
A very big THANK YOU to everyone who has signed the #KeepLondonRoadOpen petition during the past few weeks. A total of 4,526 people have added their names to it.
The petition has now been presented in Parliament and the Langford Village Community Association’s Chairman, Carole Hetherington, travelled to London on 3rd June 2025 as part of the small group of volunteers who helped to deliver it alongside our local MP, Calum Miller.
London Road – BBC Oxford 3rd June 2025
LISTEN: #KeepLondonRoadOpen
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)
County Council Election Result 2025
Nick Cotter has been elected as the new Oxfordshire County Councillor who will represent Langford Village residents and others in Bicester South. This follows the poll held on May 1st.
OCC Election Candidates – May 1st 2025
The candidates standing in the County Council election on May 1st 2025 have now been announced. Langford Village is in the Bicester South ward.
Click here for further details.
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.
Langford Community Hall To Be Polling Station For ALL Our Residents
A change is being made so that ALL electors living on Langford Village will be able to cast their votes at election times in the Hall at Langford Village Community Centre.
Residents on New Langford will no longer be made to go to the Garth to vote, which some found difficult because of the distance and having to cross the railway line. Instead New Langford electors will be able to vote in the Hall along with residents of the original Langford estate starting from the County Council elections on May 1st.
In another change, residents of Graven Hill will now have their own mobile polling station there and will no longer need to come to Langford’s Community Hall to vote.
The changes were agreed following feedback from many local people and some of Langford’s councillors. Full details can be found as part of a Cherwell District Council report that was approved in December 2024. You can click here to view it.
This new structure will apply for all elections from now on. Any questions about it should be referred to the elections team at Cherwell District Council which manages all the elections and polling stations in our area.
Anyone who’s unsure about where they should vote should carefully check the documents they receive at their home prior to election day. For example, Flanders Close residents, who are just outside of Langford, will still need to vote at the Garth.
On elections day we expect to now have three polling booths within the Langford Community Hall and when you come to vote our teams will help direct you to the correct polling booth. This will depend on exactly where you live on Langford and you must also place your vote into the correct ballot box within the Hall.
We look forward to seeing you there soon!
Chris
(Presiding Officer at Langford Polling Station for 1st May 2025)