Ashridge Beechwoods, Local Plan delayed, new build planning frozen
ASHRIDGE BEECHWOODS: CONSERVATIVES' FAILURES COME BACK TO BITE THEM, AS LOCAL PLAN DELAYED AND NEW-BUILD PLANNING APPLICATIONS FROZEN
14 Mar 2022
Harpenden & Berkhamsted Liberal Democrats
serving Tring, Berkhamsted, Harpenden & Villages
Conservative plans for Electric Vehicles in Dacorum "stuck on charge"
Fast? Rapid? Ultra Rapid? Try "Slow".
11 Mar 2022
Liberal Democrat Budget Motion defeated by only two votes at Council Meeting
In a charged Council session sitting until 10.30pm, Dacorum debated the 2022/23 budget, Luton Airport expansion and some revealing questions and answers with the Cabinet.
25 Feb 2022
Bringing back the buzz to Boxmoor - Simy wins by-election
Not long after midnight on Friday 4th the new councillor for Boxmoor was elected. Simy was suprised by her majority over the...
5 Feb 2022
BOXMOOR TRAFFIC STRATEGY LAUNCHED
Since April 2021 Boxmoor's councillors supported by 23 local volunteers have spent over 100 hours surveying and analysing traffic flows at notorious rat runs and busy roads across Boxmoor. "We needed to understand the scale and nuances of a problem before we can discuss solutions." says Adrian England, County Councillor for Boxmoor. Key findings so far are that: - traffic on Lockers Park Lane increases by 6.5 times on a school day - 89% of eastbound rush hour traffic on St Johns Rd is through traffic - at peak times pedestrians have to cope with a car every five seconds on Fishery Road This collected data and analysis is to help support lobbying and inform decision-making. As a result of the data collected, Boxmoor Councillors have found the funding for a pedestrian crossing on Fishery Road and Herts County Council are undertaking a feasibility study. Dacorum Borough Councillor William Allen explains "this is only a start - our surveying will continue to more areas and this will help us to chip away at the pr
31 Jan 2022
Liberal Democrats Select Local Businesswoman and Community Activist as Candidate for Boxmoor Bye-Election
THERE IS A DACORUM COUNCIL BYE-ELECTION IN BOXMOOR, ON THURSDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 2022 Cllr William Allen, also a DBC councillor for Boxmoor - a 3-councillor ward - says, "Our colleague Liz Uttley has been a wonderful hardworking councillor, but a career move within the family meant a change of scene.
9 Jan 2022
Hertfordshire News
Hertfordshire County
Badly-needed county council funding goes unspent
Improvements for local transport and special educational needs in Hertfordshire have been delayed by county council incompetence - with £17 million of vital funds going unspent this year.
3 Dec 2024
Hertfordshire County
Fury as SEND debate ‘sabotaged’ at Hertfordshire County Council
“Wrecking tactics” have been blamed after “timewasting” speeches forced the cancellation of a key council debate on special educational needs.
16 Oct 2024
Hertfordshire County
"We cannot commit to meeting our legal requirements" says the Conservative Administration at County Hall
Hertfordshire County Council Conservatives have voted down a Liberal Democrat motion that “the Council believes that the target must be to meet the authority’s statutory obligations”...
19 Jul 2024
UK Lib Dem news
Children & Families
A Harms-Based Approach to Social Media
Big tech companies should not be allowed to profit at the expense of children’s wellbeing.
VC
20 Jan 2026
Health, Care & the NHS
Our plan to end the A&E corridor crisis
30,000 people wait for over 12 hours in A&E departments every single week - it's a national scandal and we have a plan to stop it.
ED
13 Jan 2026
Trump’s pharma price hike
What the Government is doing, and why we’re opposing it
HM
2 Jan 2026
