ROAD CLOSURES OVER NEXT FEW WEEKS
Road closure
29 Aug 2017
National News
Tesco & Waitrose have joined the protest against the tampon tax
Currently in the UK, people pay 5% VAT on sanitary products. The tax system considers them a "luxury item", meanwhile products like crocodile meat, razors and Jaffa Cakes are all classed as "essential" and so are VAT free.
29 Aug 2017
County abolishes CEO position in bid to save £300,000
Derbyshire County Council's CEO has left his position this month after the local authority decided to abolish the post, and that of two other top-tier executives, in a move to save the cash-strapped organisation £300,000. After starting at the authority in 2007 as the director of environmental services, Ian Stephenson became the CEO of the county four years ago.
29 Aug 2017
Welcome Developments in the Protest against Developments - Miswell Lane Public Open Space!
It has been a long-standing anomaly that a triangle of land off Miswell Lane in Tring was privately owned despite being designated as Public Open Space by the former Tring Urban District Council - a situation which has dragged on for nearly 50 years! This was the subject of a 12-year court case which firmly established the land as Public Open Space. Unfortunately the land was then sold at auction by the owners and bought up by a developer at a price far in excess of what Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) thought at the time it could afford. Since then there has been a series of unsuccessful planning applications, with the more recent ones involving partial development with the remainder of the land being given to DBC. The last such compromise involved just 20% of the land being developed with the remainder becoming DBC property, thus safeguarding its public use. The latest excellent news is about the withdrawal of the planning application for building 2 houses on 20% of the privately owned public open space -
29 Aug 2017
Welcome Developments in the Protest against Developments - Miswell Lane Public Open Space!
It has been a long-standing anomaly that a triangle of land off Miswell Lane in Tring was privately owned despite being designated as Public Open Space by the former Tring Urban District Council - a situation which has dragged on for nearly 50 years! This was the subject of a 12-year court case which firmly established the land as Public Open Space. Unfortunately the land was then sold at auction by the owners and bought up by a developer at a price far in excess of what Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) thought at the time it could afford. Since then there has been a series of unsuccessful planning applications, with the more recent ones involving partial development with the remainder of the land being given to DBC. The last such compromise involved just 20% of the land being developed with the remainder becoming DBC property, thus safeguarding its public use. The latest excellent news is about the withdrawal of the planning application for building 2 houses on 20% of the privately owned public open space -
29 Aug 2017
New application for Westbury housing
Newland Homes have applied to Wiltshire Council for permission to build 88 homes at Station Road. The site north of the railway line is allocated for housing and a previous permission was given to Persimmon for a 102-dwelling development, which they then chose not to build.
29 Aug 2017