There will be no slackening of standards required to become a hackney taxi driver in the St Albans district, councillors have confirmed. A revised Taxi Licensing Policy proposed changing the knowledge test process by reducing it to a multiple choice routes-only test for taxi drivers and removing it completely for private...
Firefighters are tackling a blaze at the Toyota car dealership in Frogmore. Thick black smoke is seen behind the Stephen Eagell showroom in Radlett Road in this photo by Lailah Catherine published on the Park Street People and Places Facebook page. The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, but...
More than a year since enforcement action was ordered to restore the former Butterfly World site in Chiswell Green, the land remains tarnished by industrial use. Visiting the site reveals diggers, recovery trucks and hundreds of cars parked up alongside semi-permanent structures, but the vegetation around the perimeter has grown wild,...
Council bosses have revealed plans to charge motorists to park in previously free spaces across St Albans. Consultation is now underway on proposals to replace the current arrangement with up to 20 minutes free (two free sessions per vehicle per day) and then charge £2.50 for one hour and £5 for...
A new nine hole adventure golf course is opening this Saturday at Willows Activity Farm. The Peter Rabbit-themed course is a new addition to the farm’s Summer Spectacular programme which runs July 20 -September 1. The course includes holes set in Mr McGregor’s Garden, Jemima Puddleduck’s Coop and Jeremy Fisher’s Pond. Clubs, balls...
The official public consultation on proposals to convert free parking places in Harpenden to paid spaces with 20-minutes free parking has begun. As originally revealed in the St Albans Times, SADC wants to change the long-standing one hour and two hour arrangements in Harpenden town centre in order to recoup revenue...
The Alban Film Week, taking place at St Albans Cathedral this autumn, will transform the prestigious Nave into the venue for a series of screenings and film-based events. The event is being run by St Albans Film Festival director Matt Bigg in collaboration with the Cathedral, and will be the 10th...
A Harpenden town councillor has urged his Lib Dem colleagues to come together and devise a solution to scrapping free car parking in order to raise desperately-needed revenue. Richard Scott, who represents Harpenden North Ward on HTC, also chairs the corporate policy and finance committee, and is responsible for the economic...
We ask a different figure from the local community to choose 10 questions to answer from a list of 50. This week: Steph Lyon, owner of Sabel Walker Skin & Wellness skin and waxing clinic in St Albans. What did you want to be when you grew up? When I was young...
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