Kemi Badenoch: ...% of children go to a good or outstanding primary or secondary school. We also boast the UK’s oldest land college in Writtle. The constituency covers rural Chelmsford and the major settlements of Thaxted, Great Dunmow and the medieval market town of Saffron Walden itself. It was called Saffron Walden because of its large saffron crop. The spice was worth its weight in gold and was used...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon: ...the most sparkling jewels in the precious crown that is our historic environment”. The noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, talked about the importance of our new developments, and used the example of Thaxted parish church. It is right to reflect upon that, and her suggestion is certainly one that I will take back to DCLG. It is important that, when local plans for future developments are...
David Curry: ...to commissioning reports and then regarding them as a form of holy writ to which they constantly refer. The Barker report contained some sensible things but some pretty daft things too. The sage of Thaxted did not get it right on every occasion and Kate Barker did not get it right on this one. The real question is why the provision should remain on the statute book. What do the Government...
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall: ...of rural life that we do not want to get stuck with, being a bit weird and distinctly comic. I can assure your Lordships that when the police close the streets on the first Saturday in June in Thaxted, a dozen teams of morris men strut their stuff outside my window and there are many hundreds, of all ages, watching and cheering them on. They are all spending money. Participation in arts...
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall: ...Uttlesford district has within it a number of historically important buildings and settlements, including the towns of Saffron Walden and Great Dunmow, and the famous villages of Finchingfield and Thaxted, where I live. These are not, however, mere heritage showpieces preserved in architectural aspic for the benefit of tourists and inhabited by part-timers in green wellies driving 4x4s....
Alan Haselhurst: ...are ducking that issue. Their official policy is to expand airports outside the south-east while freezing further development at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted. That has not percolated down to Thaxted, where Liberal Democrats stated in a recent issue of Focus that, if another runway is required, it should certainly be located at Heathrow or Gatwick. Official Liberal Democrat policy flies...
..., and I now represent a more northern and remote part of East Anglia. My experience as a boy in Essex can be summed up very briefly. I was brought up in an area that includes not just Stansted but Thaxted and Finchingfield, which is regarded as the most beautiful village in Essex. It is quite wrong that anyone should ever have considered a major expansion of Stansted airport, because the...
Mr Eric Heffer: ...might apply to some hon. Members opposite if a similar system were introduced by the Conservative Party. I am not very much in favour of that type of centralised control. Father Conrad Noel of Thaxted Church, which was quite famous in its day, wrote one of the best versions of the life of Christ—though I do not expect hon. Members opposite to agree with that judgment. Conrad Noel's...
...(Borough Council—and possibly Civic Trust). King's Lynn: Revival of earlier scheme (County and Borough Councils). Lincoln (County Borough Council). Shepton Mallet, Somerset (the U.D.C). Thaxted, Essex (County Council and Dunmow R.D.C.).
Mr Arthur Lewis: ...is quite right. This damage affects not only ordinary property, but irreplaceable public buildings. If—which God forbid—Stansted goes ahead, these planes will fly over the 1,100-yearold Thaxted Church, and it will be goodbye to the church. In ordinary houses, plaster comes down from the ceiling and soot from the chimney. My hon. Friend should take into account not only compensation...
Mr Jon Rankin: ...job at once. When the airport is in operation and the big jets are landing and taking off, my view is that as many children and parents will journey from Farnham, Bishop's Stortford, Harlow and Thaxted as now crowd the balconies of Heathrow. There will be more noise from Stansted, but people today ask for noise—not deliberately, I agree; yet everybody wants nowadays to move more...
Mr Tom Driberg: ..., really begin to take shape. I shall always remember that when I was a boy, only just beginning to learn about Socialism, I went one day into that most beautiful of all English parish churches, at Thaxted, and saw hanging there the Red Flag, which Conrad Noel had hung up. It was then periodically being torn down and torn up by hooligans, the forerunners of the Fascists of today. On that...
Mr Tom Driberg: ...I doubt if the bishop would have refused to assent. My final instance is a man whom I regard as one of the greatest saints of the Church of England in my lifetime, the late Conrad Noel, Vicar of Thaxted, in my own county of Essex, whom I often heard the wealthy and respectable people of the county denounce as "cracked." They said, "He may be a good man, but he is cracked. He hangs a red...
Sir Reginald Craddock: ...published in October last showing the inquiries of a special correspondent regarding the vagaries of the Rector of All Saints', Manchester; of the Vicar of Sneyd, Staffordshire; and of the Vicar of Thaxted, Essex. All these reverend gentlemen are apparently protagonists of what is called the Catholic Crusade. They have been incumbents for many years, and they are no doubt perfectly...