23 September 2024 / 26 September 2024 by pressteam
Hertford Town and District Councillor Sarah Hopewell unpicks the latest planning decision to be made in East Herts (HERT4 in Bengeo), explaining its fate was sealed to some extent by the government’s high housing targets and when the previous Conservative District Council administration agreed to open up the site for developers. Bengeo field is a […]
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19 September 2024 / 26 September 2024 by pressteam
Green Councillors and Candidate in Bengeo shared their disappointment and frustration on Thursday 19th September that the HERT4 development has received approval to go ahead. Three Bengeo Green Councillors argued against the plan to build an additional 118 homes on Bengeo Field at a meeting of the EHDC Development Management Council (DMC) on Wednesday 18th […]
5 September 2024 / 2 October 2024 by pressteam
Councillor Tim Hoskin, East Herts District Councillor for Hertford Heath and Brickendon and Executive Member for Environmental Sustainability, writes about taking action to tackle the biodiversity crisis. “It was hugely encouraging recently to gain unanimous cross-party support for a motion at East Herts District Council to take action to try and halt the ecology and […]
8 January 2024 / 31 July 2024 by pressteam
Flooding: Unprecedented or Our Future? Over the last weeks we have been deluged with unwelcome rainfall in East Herts, in part due to Storm Henk. Hertfordshire County Council received over 1045 reports of flooding and fallen trees during the storm. There have been flood warnings on the rivers Lee and Ash. Local residents have experienced […]
