Ongar and Villages

I am delighted to have been asked to contribute regular articles to the Epping Forest Guardian, as the Member of Parliament for Brentwood and Ongar.The Ongar part of my constituency covers part of West Essex, and contains some of the most beautiful and friendly villages in my constituency.Many of th

I’ve written before about the ongoing changes to Post office services in Shenfield – where the Shenfield Broadway Post office had to closed at the same time as the Morrisons shut down – and in Ingatestone, where the Post Office is currently being run by a temporary postmaster.More on both of those i

Brentwood and Ongar MP, Alex Burghart, has written to the Home Secretary, the Rt. Hon.

Joint Statement from Dr Neil Hudson MP (Epping Forest) and Alex Burghart MP (Brentwood and Ongar)The situation regarding the use of asylum hotels in Epping Forest District has become increasingly alarming and distressing in recent days.

On a sunny July evening, I joined a group of about fifty people gathered in a classic Essex boarded barn on Tawney Common in Stapleford Tawney.

I was absolutely delighted to be invited to open St Clare Hospice’s latest charity shop in Ongar on Saturday 14th June. With more and more people keen to embrace recycling and sustainable fashion and homewares, the shop offers a great opportunity for the local community to support hospice care

I was delighted to be invited to a recent phone call with our local MPs and members of the Essex Police leadership team.

There have been some wonderful events in the constituency over the last few weekends, not least the opening of the new St Clare Hospice charity shop on Ongar High Street, and the ever-wonderful Strawberry Fair in the King George’s Playing Fields.

I hold regular meetings with the Police Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex, Roger Hirst, and the team policing Brentwood and Ongar for Essex Police, so it was good to hear from out District Commander, Chief Inspector Terry Fisher, recently with news of the new Brentwood Neighbourhood Policing Tea

The Ongar Town Festival last month was a wonderful day, marking as it did 80 years since the end of the war in Europe. I am not old enough to know what Ongar was like when the war in Europe ended, but if the Ongar Town Festival this year was anything to go by, the people of Ongar knew how to ra