Cllr Brenda Link

Highfield Cllrs Brenda Link and Lloyd Harris will hold an advice surgery on Sat 18th July at Highfield Community Centre, Bellgate, Fletcher Way from 10:30 to 11:30am.

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REPLACEMENT SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION, FRONT STEPS AND HANDRAILS. 76 NEPTUNE DRIVE, HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, HP2 5QD. APPLICANT - MRS JILL JARVIS 76 NEPTUNE DRIVE. Comments welcome by 9th JULY http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1497&ID=4/01004/09/FHA

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Replacement lamp column with a 12.5 metre O2 phone mast with lamp arm & equipment cabinet. Lamp post 124, Queensway (near British Legion). Comments close 26th November.

Over 500 signatures were collected in the save the Heights Post Office petitions, one by Cllr Lloyd Harris and myself and another initiated by a local resident.

It was surprising how widely distributed the names listed in the petition were. It shows that the Post Office is valued not just used by people of Highfield but by people from all over.

My colleagues and I received a warm reception when we launched a campaign to save The Heights Post Office here in Highfield, from local residents and shopkeepers alike.

Geoff Lawrence, a former post master of the Heights Post Office said “This Post Office is the hub of the parade, its loss could have a detrimental effect on the other shopkeepers”

I believe Pensioners and the disabled find the main Post Office in the Marlowes inconvenient now it has moved. We need local Post Offices so they wont have to struggle with the stairs in WH Smith.

4/00978/08/FUL TWO DWELLINGS GARAGE COURT ADJ. 7, MALVERN WAY, HP2 5RB for HIGHTOWN PRAETORIAN & CHURCHES HOUSING ASSOCIATION LTD (comments by 10th JUNE)
http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1497&ID=4/00978/08/FUL

4/00794/08/FUL CONVERSION OF DWELLING TO FORM THREE RESIDENTIAL UNITS, 9 SATURN WAY, HP2 5NY (comments now closed)
http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1497&ID=4/00794/08/FUL
4/00797/08/FUL CONVERSION OF DWELLING TO FORM THREE RESIDENTIAL UNITS, 21 SATURN WAY, HP2 5NY (comments now closed)
http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1497&ID=4/00797/08/FUL

As borough councillors for Highfield between them Cllrs Lloyd Harris & Brenda Link get £4000 a year to spend for the benefit of Highfield ward during a council year (1st April to 31st March).

As a special one off unspent money form the last council year has been rolled over to this year (beginning on 1st April 2008) so between them they have £8000 to spend on good causes.

At a public meeting on 15th March, representatives from St Paul’s Church, Knee High Club, Indoor Bowls Club, Community Centre, SOCA (Carnival Club) and Thumpers Residents Assoc were received. Money is still available for other causes, so if you have any suggestions to how this money should be allocated, please email the councillors direct.

On 27th February, the Dacorum Council members debated the budget. I voted for a 3.8% Council Tax increase but the Conservatives used their majority to impose a 4.5% increase.

Lloyd Harris and I together with our Liberal Democrat colleagues voted to support an amendment that would have reversed the cuts to charities and in fact increased the amount they currently receive, increased bus subsidy, remove the petty cut to stop providing bags for the Council’s dog waste bins and delivered a 3.8% Council Tax increase. Read the rest of this entry »

At the full council meeting the Conservative Administration denied that the budget process for the coming year was delayed but admitted that the first chance opposition members would have to see it will be in February. Cllr Denise Rance, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group and Official Opposition, questioned the Leader of the Council who could not bring himself to admit that scrutiny of the budget had been removed from all committee meetings in the autumn, and often with little notice. Read the rest of this entry »