Councillors Local Issues News
15 November 2024 / 15 November 2024 by pressteam
Green Party Councillor Sarah Hopewell, East Herts District Council Executive Member for Wellbeing, talks about the huge financial challenges facing East Herts District Council and how tough choices will have to be made. Nationally, many councils are financially stretched, with one in five expected to declare effective bankruptcy over the next three years. All councils […]
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15 November 2024 / 16 November 2024 by pressteam
Buntingford’s Green Party councillors passionately spoke up for residents, when a controversial planning application to relocate a medical centre and build 200 homes, was presented to the Development Management Committee this week (Wednesday 13 November). The Development Management Committee is a cross-party group of councillors, who are tasked with reviewing all large-scale planning applications. The […]
Councillors Defending Our Environment Fairer Greener Housing Local Issues News
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 […]
Councillors Defending Our Environment Local Issues News
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 […]
