Local business leaders have responded negatively to the Budget, fearing its impact on companies already struggling to survive. Steve Bedford, executive director and business advisor for STANTA (St Albans Enterprise Agency), said it looked like a gamble. “The gamble is that investment in public sector projects will stimulate growth in the private...
Local Lib Dem MPs Daisy Cooper and Victoria Collins joined campaigners at St Albans City Station on their way to the March for Clean Water on Sunday. They were joining thousands of other demonstrators all dressed in blue, marching for clean water from the Albert Embankment to Parliament Square in London. The...
Every year in November, the country pauses and takes a moment to remember our war dead. And while crowds gather around St Peter’s Church War Memorial, poppies are also quietly placed on small, but equally significant, memorials in the streets of St Albans Abbey Parish. Because from this parish, over...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper has urged the Government to make sweeping changes in its proposed Planning and Infrastructure Bill. “First and foremost, I want to see local authorities given the powers and resources to force big developers to build infrastructure before or at the same rate as they build houses....
Pubs, high street shops and other hospitality businesses are reeling in the wake of a devastating Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has reduced the business rate relief discount from 75 per cent to 40 per cent, which is a huge leap in payable rates, especially with many pubs rated up to £120,000...
Months after its official completion, tenants are finally moving into city centre development Jubilee Square. The £64m project, on the site of the former police station and NHS clinic, was handed over by SADC in July, six years after work began. SADC housing lead Cllr Jacqui Taylor welcomed some of the residents...
A 10-year project to refurbish the 150-year-old Grade II listed Smallford Station and platform continues apace. The abandoned station, which formed part of the old Alban Way line between St Albans and Hatfield, has undergone a dramatic transformation thanks to the efforts of Smallford Station and Alban Way Heritage Society. Since 2013,...
Work to clear scrub from Bedmond Wildlife Meadow to facilitate an archaeological survey has decimated a large area of established woodland, it has been claimed. The work is also said to have destroyed scores of saplings and young trees on the grassland part of the 12-acre meadow, which borders the whole...
Could Victoria Street be closed to all vehicles apart from buses? That sounds like one of the outcomes being mooted as part of a consultation about the major route into St Albans city centre. Herts county council is working with St Albans district council on a community-led initiative to create a...
There’s a new weapon in the fight against retail crime in St Albans city centre – an information-sharing app to improve safety and security for traders. Known as Disc, the facility includes photo galleries of known offenders alongside instant messages and alerts on recent incidents, keeping shop and hospitality staff up-to-date...
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