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About the Council

Harlow Council is a District Council that provides services such as refuse and recycling collection, housing, environmental health, electoral registration, planning and building control, parks and leisure. The town has around 80,000 residents in 37,000 households.

The Council has a Conservative administration and 33 elected Members with 18 Conservative, 10 Labour and 5 Liberal Democrat Members 

 

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Essex Yeomanry information

Harlow Council supports all British troops, but has particularly close ties with the Essex Yeomanry, because of its close links with the town. 

 

The Essex Yeomanry is the direct successor of the Troop raised by Colonel Montague Burgoyne in 1798. Since then the Essex Yeomanry has been Yeomanry Cavalry over a period of 124 years, gunners for 46 years and signallers for the last 40 years. In that time citizens of Harlow and from around Essex have volunteered to serve in aid of the civil authorities on several occasions during the 19th and 20th centuries, serving in two World Wars with great distinction and considerable sacrifice, as they do again in the 21st century in Iraq and Afghanistan.   

 

Many of the serving Essex Yeomanry, as well as former members, are residents of Harlow and on 25 April 2009 Harlow Council awarded the Essex Yeomanry the Freedom of Entry to Harlow, at a ceremony and parade. This significant honour marked the association which the Essex Yeomanry has had with Harlow and its surrounding district since 1798.

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The Essex Yeomanry Association is a charitable organisation which aims to promote the efficiency of the Regiment and to maintain its history, traditions and esprit de corps. The organisation also aims to relieve (either generally or individually) persons who are serving or have served in the Regiment or any former units, and their dependents, who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress.