The weather couldn't have been better for the 56th Harpenden Carnival on Saturday. The event is a partnership between Harpenden’s Round Table and Harpenden Town Council and included the ever-popular Savills Dog Show, bouncy inflatables, craft activities and food and drinks stalls across the Common. Music included the likes of Number...
Harpenden will be bankless by the autumn, but what does that mean for the town? Laura Bill finds out more...
Campaigners have welcomed a decision by Harpenden Town Council to oppose plans for up to 550 homes on a Green Belt site to the north-west of the town. An Extraordinary Public Meeting on May 30 saw councillors overwhelmingly vote in opposition to the scheme by Legal and General (L&G) for land...
In the wake of Legal and General's proposals for 550 homes on Green Belt to the north-west of Harpenden (pictured), other developers have come forwards with schemes for fields around the town. The news comes as part of the district council's 'call for sites' in order to meet government house-building targets...
A leading Harpenden councillor has spoken out to condemn plans to build 550 new homes on Green Belt land to the north-west of the town.The scheme - proposed by Legal & General (Strategic Land Harpenden Ltd) - involves up to 168 affordable homes, and 130 for integrated retirement living on...
One would expect Harpenden to have weathered the worst of the recent economic downturn, but in common with other towns across the country, many retail premises are empty - some longer than others - reflecting the vacancies visible across neighbouring St Albans' own city centre. Two of the biggest losses in...
A crusading councillor is leading a campaign against the scourge of fly-tipping in a bid to make the whole community take responsibility for the problem. Dr Allison Wren, who represents Harpenden North and Rural on St Albans district council, is also the lead councillor with responsibility for waste, and has spent...
News that a Harpenden-based contracting company has gone into liquidation will not have an impact on the rest of the business, it has been confirmed. Jarvis Contracting, which dates back to 1905, announced to its 75 employees on Tuesday that the administrators had been called in before making them all redundant. Jarvis...
For Harpenden-based author Jonathan Stroud, the experience of seeing his supernatural book series Lockwood & Co transformed into a Netflix TV show was one of the stand-out moments of his life. “In your life you have a few moments where you know everything slightly shifts – getting married, when your child...
What wild gestures can you carry out as part of Random Acts of Kindness day this week? First created in Denver, Colorado in 1995 by a small non-profit organisation, the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, the day is now internationally celebrated.With a wildlife and climate crisis, and wellbeing so closely related...
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