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The current review of the Rutland Local Plan has been abandoned and will take around 4 years to create a new one. See how this affects the Langham Neighbourhood Plan - click here for more info

Langham Village Street Market 2021

LANGHAM VILLAGE STREET MARKET is to go ahead on Bank Holiday Monday 30 August after having to be cancelled last year in a similar way to many other events. Come and have a fantastic day out between 10.30 am and 4.00 pm when there will be something for everybody in the family to enjoy with Market stalls selling everything imaginable, a Fire Engine, Vintage Traction Engine, Morris dancing, music in the church, barbecue, refreshments and the usual Village Hall stalls: bric-a-brac; books; tombola and a raffle with a huge number of prizes.

With the very successful vaccination programme underway it is expected that the majority of the population will be protected against Covid-19 by the end of August. However there will be major changes to how the Street Market will operate this year as the organisers are sensibly taking steps to avoid activities indoors and those outdoors likely to attract crowding. Street Market stalls will be spaced further apart along Church Street, which will be closed to traffic from Melton Road to Well Street, plus a number of stalls (including Village Hall ones) in driveways further down Church Street towards the main car parking area on Ashwell Road. Parking, including for the disabled, will be signposted.

To ask for application forms for Street Market pitches email or telephone 01572 771115. There are three price bands from £15 (for Langham residents) and stalls must be booked and paid for in advance. For further information see websites www.langhaminrutland.org/streetmarket.htm and www.langhamvillagehall.org . where a gallery of photos from previous Street Markets can be seen. This is one of the most successful events in our village calendar with profits helping to finance our Village Hall (charity number 522341) and allowing other local organisations to raise funds. All profits from Village Hall stalls, tombola, raffle and Street Market pitch fees will be used for Village Hall refurbishments and maintenance.

Langham Community Park update 14^th July 2021

The refurbishment is complete, the new equipment sits proudly beside what was there before, and the gates were unlocked on Saturday July 10^th. People of all ages came to try out the new equipment or relax in the sunshine at one of the new picnic tables.

As with all such community ventures we will have a formal Grand Opening, to which everyone is invited – it is on Saturday 24^th July at 12.30.  Please bring your own picnic and let’s have a wonderful day in the fresh air, meeting and chatting with friends and neighbours and testing the new equipment.

Traffic Reporting on the A606

It is now 5 weeks since we asked you all to start reporting near misses and dangerous driving on the A606 – especially near the school.

We have received 11 reports – 7 of near misses, 3 of dangerous driving and one expression of concern. These we have sent to Inspector Danvers of Leicestershire Police (copy our PC Laurie Appleton) and to Cllr Lucy Stephenson (Traffic and Highways, RCC), copy our County Councillor, Oliver Hemsley.

We plan to send a similar summary every 4-5 weeks – or more frequently we get a lot more reports.

Our hope is that with robust and significant formal evidence of the risk to people crossing the A606 we may stand a chance, in the future, of a meaningful investment, by RCC, in a safe crossing point. Please keep reporting all incidents on the website.

Abstraction of water from Langham Brook

The brook running through Langham is owned by each riparian property and we thank each of you for fulfilling your responsibiites with regard to the maintenance of the bank and water course.

The recent warm, dry spell has left the water level very low and we felt it was important to remind riparian owners that, whilst the abstraction of water up 20cubic metres per day or less does not require a licence from the Environment Agency, amounts in excess of this may do so and should be referred to them.

A reminder of riparian duties:

• Pass on the flow of water without obstruction, pollution or diversion affecting the rights of others.
• Maintain the bed and banks of the watercourse and to clear any debris, whether natural or artificial, to keep any culverts, rubbish screens, weirs and mill gates clear of debris.
• Be responsible for protection of land from flooding and cause no obstructions, temporary or permanent, preventing the free passage of fish.
• Accept flood flows even if caused by inadequate capacity downstream, but there is no duty to improve the drainage capacity of a watercourse.

The volunteers of Munday's Close Working Group (MCWG) will be planting an Oak Tree in the Munday's Close wildlife area around 10:30am on Saturday 30th November as part of the Woodland Trust Big Climate Fightback. All Langham residents are invited to come along and show their support.
The Big Climate Fightback is a campaign to get one million people to join the fight against climate change by pledging to plant a tree by Saturday 30 November 2019. https://campaigns.woodlandtrust.org.uk/page/46713/data/1

The Refernce Guide to Planning Applications produced by the Langham Parish Council Planning Committee and distributed to all households in Langham in August 2019 is now available to download as a PDF document.

Reference Guide to Planning Applications PDF Download

Dog Waste Bins

Did you know....if you are walking your dog you can put bags of dog waste in the normal litter bins! Current RCC policy is not to provide dedicated dog waste bins