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Do you own or run a business based in one of our town centres in Hertsmere?

If so, we would like to hear your views, with a public survey being launched today (13 March 2025); the results of which will help us to devise and move forward plans to improve our town centres for everyone.

Many businesses in our borough have experienced a very difficult time over the last few years, with the continuing rise and popularity of online shopping – particularly during and since the COVID-19 pandemic – and a consequent significant decrease in footfall in town centres.

Cllr Christian Gray, Hertsmere Borough Council’s Cabinet Member for Economic Development, said: “I encourage as many businesses based in our borough as possible to complete the survey, as all of the comments and feedback received will make sure we are able to develop and implement a comprehensive and effective strategy for economic development which will benefit our town centres in the best way possible over the coming years.

“We are absolutely committed to making sure that our town centres meet the ongoing needs of our residents, businesses and visitors. That means we must be able to constantly adapt, as it is vital that town centres become hubs for their community, offering leisure facilities and work spaces as well as retail provision.”

To take part in our survey, which runs for six weeks until Thursday 24 April 2025, please go to the project page on our consultation and engagement platform – it should take only a few minutes to complete.

Of course, your responses will be treated confidentially and used for council purposes only. Your company information will not be shared with any third parties.

For more information about the survey, or if you have any questions, please email: economic.development@hertsmere.gov.uk

We only collect from households that have subscribed to the Garden Waste Collection Service and display a sticker on their green bin. To pay for your 2025/26 subscription please visit our garden waste page.  The subscription cost for collections from April 2025 is £50 for the first green bin, with a concessionary rate of £35 for those claiming Council Tax support. Additional bin subscriptions are £60 each with a maximum of three green bins collected per property.

Important! From April 2025 your green bin will be for garden waste only.

For food waste you will receive a new silver food waste bin, which will be collected weekly from 7 April – see further details below.

Food waste collections – starting in April From Monday 7 April you will be able to recycle your food waste weekly!  New 23-litre silver food bins are currently being delivered across the borough containing an instruction booklet, collection calendar and roll of compostable liners for your inside kitchen caddie.

It’s hard to imagine that your plate scrapings, stale bread, mouldy food, tea and coffee bags, meat and fish bones can be used to create sustainable energy and fertiliser – there’s power in those peelings!

Your food waste will be taken to a special processing plant in London Colney where it is used to generate electricity to power homes in our borough and produce fertiliser, which is used in farming locally.

To read our FAQs and find out more about the weekly food waste collection visit our food waste page 

Important!

To make our rounds more efficient you may see a change to your collection day. You will receive information about this in the collection calendar delivered inside your new silver food bin.

If you do not want the garden waste subscription or have already signed up and paid for 2025/26 garden waste subscription, you do not need to do anything.

The key aims of this research are to:
🦷 Understand how frequently children are visiting the dentist.
🦷 Identify barriers that may prevent access to dental care.
🦷 Explore ways to make dental practices more child- and family-friendly.
🦷 Determine what information, support, or resources would help parents better care for their child’s oral health.

Survey Link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HwHOralHealth/

Hertfordshire County Council

The Hertfordshire (Temporary Closing and Temporary Waiting Restrictions in Various Roads in Radlett and St Albans) Order 2025

NOTICE is given that Hertfordshire County Council intends to make an Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, to prohibit all vehicular traffic from using the following lengths of roads (“the Roads”), except for access and to prohibit all vehicles from waiting at any time on both sides of these lengths of Roads whilst works are in progress:-

1.    that length of Folly Pathway, Radlett from its junction with Gills Hill Lane north westwards to its junction with Folly Close, a distance of approximately 76m.

There is no alternative route available for vehicles when the works are being carried out. However vehicular access to properties in this road will be maintained whenever possible throughout the duration of the works.

2.    that length of Folly Close, Radlett from its junction with Folly Pathway south westwards and north westwards for its entire length.

There is no alternative route available for vehicles when the works are being carried out. However vehicular access to properties in this road will be maintained whenever possible throughout the duration of the works.

3.    that length of Woodstock Road South, St Albans from its junction with A1057 Hatfield Road northwards, north eastwards and north westwards to its junction with Brampton Road, a distance of approximately 263m.

An alternative route will be via A1057 Hatfield Road, Sandfield Road and Brampton Road.

The Order is needed because works are proposed to be executed on or near the Roads.

If the Order is made, it shall come into force on 1 April 2025 for a period of up to 18 months. However, the restrictions specified shall only take effect at the times indicated by signs on or near the Roads.

A copy of the proposed Order may be inspected free of charge at County Hall, Hertford between the hours of 9.00am and 5.00pm (excluding weekends, bank and public holidays).

If you have any queries about the proposed Order please contact Abdul Shanavazi tel. 0300 123 4047 at Hertfordshire County Council.