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planning application website click here 4/00746/09/FUL DISABLED RAMP AT REAR OF BLOCK 102-108, SATURN WAY. APPLICANT, DACORUM BOROUGH COUNCIL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH Comments Welcome By  01-Jun-2009 http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/Default.aspx?page=1497&ID=4/00746/09/FUL 4/00580/09/FUL CONVERERSION TO ONE BEDROOM FLAT ON GROUND FLOOR AND THE  BEDROOM FLAT ON FIRST AND SECOND FLOORS.  46 WHARFEDALE. APPLICANT – MR AL MADANLI 46 WHARFEDALEComments Welcome by 08-Jun-2009 […]

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Highfield Planning Applications (Nov’08)

by admin on 14 November, 2008

planning application website click here 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.

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500+ Sign to save the Post Office

by on 6 August, 2008

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 […]

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Save The Heights Post Office

by brendalink on 9 July, 2008

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 […]

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Next Advice Surgery

by brendalink on 16 June, 2008

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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Highfield Planning Applications (May’08)

by brendalink on 31 May, 2008

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 […]

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4.5% Council Tax Increase is Too High

by brendalink on 6 March, 2008

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 […]

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Lib Dems Cry Foul at Delays in Budget

by on 21 January, 2008

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 […]

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What will happen to the old Market Square?

by brendalink on 18 January, 2008

At the full council meeing of the Dacorum Borough Council in January I asked the portfolio holder responsible for the old market site what plans were in place for the old market site now that the market has moved into the Marlowes. His answer demonstrated the lack of planning and forethought the Conservative run council […]

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At full council meeting on 16th Jan Conservative councillors had to admit that the auditors had expressed several concerns about the Council’s financial arrangements. A list of 86 corrections that had to be made to the accounts was circulated including one adjustment of over 13 million pounds.

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