North Herts Council is planning to reduce the number of litter bins in towns and villages, but they won’t tell anyone which ones are going to disappear. In some places it could be nearly half of the current bins. If it’s more than 30% they have written to the parish, town or community council to […]

Some parts of Great Ashby Way, particularly areas in the middle of the road, which you have to drive on when passing parked cars, have had many pot holes for ages. Steve Jarvis has been pressing highways to do more than just fix the worst of the holes and they have now told him the […]

The work on the junctions on Baldock Road, Royston, the new street lights and completion of the 40mph speed limit was promised in June, but once again only part of the work was done. It is now 18 months since contractors working for Redrow, the Hedera Gardens developers, started this work and more than a […]

The weight limit on the A507 between Baldock (the South Road roundabout) and Buntingford (the A10 roundabout) will come into operation on 28th August. This bans lorries over 7.5 tonnes from using the road unless they need to use it for accessing premised on or near the road.“Unsuitable for HGV signs have been installed on […]

Herts County Council claims to be committed to sustainability and says that it is short of money but it has just installed a row of street light where none are needed. These light will needlessly increase the council’s carbon emissions, they will cause unnecessary light pollution and the will have cost many tens of thousands […]

Thanks to all those of you who supported me in Thursday’s North Herts Council election. I am pleased to say I was re-elected. The result was: Steve Jarvis 540Conservative 85Labour 37Green 28 Across the rest of North Herts the Liberal Democrats gained four seats, Labour gained six and the Conservatives lost eight (there were changes […]

Conservative run Herts County Council has decided that Royston Young People’s Centre in Garden Walk will be closed permanently. The centre, which is on the King James Academy site, has been closed for several years due to problems with the building, but work had been underway to bring it back into use. This is part […]

As from 1st December Herts residents who want to use the Thriplow recycling centre in Cambridgeshire will need to get free permit from Cambridgeshire County Council (from here) and Cambs residents who want to use the Royston recycling centre will need a permit from Herts County Council (from here). Herts residents going to the Royston […]

It is good to hear that Herts County Council has finally taken some action against a utility company (Affinity Water in this case) for digging the road up without permission. There are far too many time when this happens and usually the council just lets them get away with it.

Many people have asked why trees and other vegetation has been cut down on the section of the A505 between the McDonalds roundabout at Royston and the Coombe Road turning the Kelshall (just before the petrol station).Highways say that they have done this as part of work to clear a ditch that runs down the […]