GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS ESSEX COUNCIL REORGANISATION PLAN AFFECTING UTTLESFORD
Image by: Hassocks5489 GOVERNMENT WITHDRAWS ESSEX COUNCIL REORGANISATION PLAN AFFECTING UTTLESFORD By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: Government plans to […]
ROAD REPAIRS ACROSS ESSEX RISE BY 30 PER CENT AFTER POTHOLE INVESTMENT
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.
Elsenham: 26 Years of Change (2000–2026)
At the start of the millennium, Elsenham was a village of around 2,500 people. Surrounded by farmland and characterised by its railway station, historic core and close proximity to Stansted Airport, it occupied a distinctive position between rural Essex and a rapidly changing regional economy.
THE ROBIN HOOD
“The Robin Hood” Public House in, surprise, surprise, Robin Hood Road is sadly no longer an Inn, once the spiritual home of the also-gone, but never-forgotten Elsenham Football Club. Sorry to say, the demise of the Village’s Eleven contributed to its demise. Our own “Footy” boys drank the Pub dry at least once. Their disbanding was a great loss to Ernie & Rennee Atkinson’s income.
ESSEX DECLARES POTHOLE EMERGENCY WITH £7.5M REPAIR FUND
Image by: Jacob Ode / Pixabay ESSEX DECLARES POTHOLE EMERGENCY WITH £7.5M REPAIR FUND By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED:
The great May heat offensive and the pothole emergency.
May arrived in Elsenham carrying two developments that nobody had expected to encounter at the same time. The first was sunshine. The second was optimism. Both were regarded with immediate suspicion.
The pond, the pipeline and the weather that escalated matters further
​March arrived in Elsenham with the reassuring certainty that somewhere, in some hedgerow-framed corner of the village, a minor administrative situation was quietly escalating into something with the energy of a diplomatic incident. As the month unfolded, reports filtered through Tesco aisles, Central Operations Command briefings, and the allotment grapevine that several operational theatres had opened simultaneously, each insisting on attention, none willing to wait their turn, and all now complicated by the growing sense that even the weather had joined the agenda.
February: Indefinitely red and digging anyway
Image by: Knelstrom Media February: Indefinitely red and digging anyway By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: February did not explode
January Monthly Update: Rumours, Roadworks and the Long Winter Dig
​​January arrived with the energy of a clipboard. Not aggressive. Not dramatic. Just quietly insistent. The sort of month that doesn’t shout but notes things down, then looks at you meaningfully. By the second week, it was clear that nothing was officially happening, and therefore, everything was.
THE COLIN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL – SANTA’S UNSCHEDULED LANDING IN ELSENHAM
Image by: Knelstrom Media THE COLIN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL – SANTA’S UNSCHEDULED LANDING IN ELSENHAM By Martin Foskett, Reporter PUBLISHED: UPDATED: