ELSENHAM, ESSEX. Residents’ concerns about the continued operation of the New Farm car park dominated Elsenham Parish Council’s meeting at the Memorial Hall on Monday, 6 July, with councillors outlining the action they say has already been taken while acknowledging frustration over delays in the planning process.
The names recorded on Elsenham’s Roll of Honour are more than a list of those who served during the First World War. Together they provide a record of a village whose people answered the call to serve between 1914 and 1919, and of the families whose lives were permanently changed by the conflict.
ESSEX. HeritageLive has confirmed the cancellation of its summer music festival at Audley End Estate following the collapse of critical funding negotiations at the eleventh hour. The historic Essex venue was one of three prestigious locations affected when the independent promoter announced it could no longer proceed with planned events.
North West Essex MP Kemi Badenoch has said she has written urgently to Uttlesford District Council, a Government minister and London Stansted Airport after receiving further information from residents about the unauthorised airport parking operation at New Farm in Elsenham.
Look up at an old thatched cottage, and there is every chance the finest piece of craftsmanship is not the roof itself, but the small ornament standing proudly along its ridge.
Housing Secretary Steve Reed has confirmed that he will launch a public inquiry into Uttlesford District Council’s decision to refuse planning applications for two residential developments in Stansted Mountfitchet and Birchanger. The inquiry follows the council’s rejection of proposals from developer City & Country for a total of 480 new homes, despite recommendations for approval from the authority’s own planning officers.
There comes a point every summer when the village collectively stops asking whether the roadworks are finished and instead begins asking which road has volunteered itself next. June has now answered that question with the confidence of a man arriving at a barbecue carrying only an empty plate. The operational map has shifted once again. New Road is preparing to disappear behind barriers for five days; temporary traffic lights have multiplied like particularly determined rabbits; Stansted’s approaches remain wrapped in utility works; the M11 Junction 8 continues its nightly impression of organised confusion; and even Tye Green Road has received official notice that its turn is coming. Somewhere inside Central Operations Command, someone quietly unfolded a larger map.
STANSTED AIRPORT, Essex. Passengers travelling to and from London Stansted Airport will be able to use overnight Stansted Express services on Friday nights throughout the summer after a new trial began on Friday 3 July. The additional trains are intended to improve rail links for people arriving on late night flights and those catching the first departures on Saturday mornings.
UTTLESFORD. Essex. More than 5,000 carriageway defects were repaired across Essex during the first quarter of the 2026 to 2027 financial year, representing a 30 per cent increase compared with the same period last year, according to Essex County Council.
Mud from a construction site has been left on Robin Hood Road in Elsenham, with debris visible up the road, across the roundabouts and continuing along the High Street towards the village school.
