After months of speculation, long-awaited details on the controversial Hemel Garden Communities project are starting to emerge, while a crowdfunding campaign has been launched to protect Redbourn village from overdevelopment. HGC is a strategic cross-boundary project, approximately half within St Albans City and District and half within Dacorum Borough, which will...
Redbourn residents have launched a GoFundMe campaign to pay for vital legal advice to fight the overdevelopment of the village. As extensively covered by the St Albans Times, developers are bidding to add thousands of homes onto Green Belt land in the vicinity of Redbourn. Approximately 1,000 homes are planned for a...
Hundreds of Redbourn residents turned out in force to protest against plans for hundreds of homes on the village's doorstep. Approximately 1,000 homes are planned for a 104-acre open arable site on the northeast edge of the village, between Dunstable Road, Harpenden Lane and the Redbourn bypass. The proposals by the Lawes...
Hundreds of Redbourn residents are expected to gather ahead of a public meeting into plans to double the village’s size. Proposals by the Lawes Agricultural Trust (LAT) – a charitable trust which owns the estates at Rothamsted in Harpenden – have been unveiled for an 104-acre open arable site situated on...
With page after page of news and features every issue, is perhaps easy to forget everything that the St Albans Times has reported on across the district over the past 12 months, which is one of the many reasons why we take a look back over this period for our...
Hundreds of people have backed a campaign to prevent Redbourn from being lost amidst a tidal wave of urban sprawl. Despite the village’s current size of approximately 2,300 homes, it could see around one third of all new housing planned for the entire St Albans district built on its doorstep. Proposals by...
Redbourn residents have reacted to a planning application for more than 4,000 new homes on their doorstep – the controversial East Hemel development. Set across 975 acres to the east of Hemel Hempstead, the scheme will include various health and community facilities, up to four new schools, new transport links and...
Social media posts celebrating “bringing the brand back” following the liquidation of popular eatery The Pudding Stop and its resurrection as The Bakery Stop have been deleted, and an expected reopening of its Redbourn store did not take place last weekend. The announcements prompted a backlash on Facebook from customers questioning...
Massive tractors illuminated with festive lights made their way in a convoy across the district on Sunday as part of an annual fundraiser for the Alzheimer's Society. The event saw farmers drive their machines from West End Barns in Nomansland, through Wheathampstead, Harpenden High Street, Redbourn and finally St Albans during...
Work on refurbishing Ver Meadows traveller site will get underway in the spring and finish a year after the devastating fire which resulted in the majority of the static and mobile homes being burned to the ground. Residents were left homeless following the inferno at on July 12, which an independent...
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