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Planning applications for week commencing April 19 validated for Watford, Three Rivers and Dacorum This week plans have been submitted for shipping container to be placed in the car park at Watford Arches Retail Park, for use as a retail store, and an application has been received to demolish an existing house in Wolsey Road, Moor Park, replacing it with a two-storey home with roofspace accommodation. Watford 48 Meadowbank, Watford WD19 4RW. Erection first floor rear extension. 18 Munden ...

Leavesden Country Park Grass cutting will be reduced this year at several locations around Three Rivers as part of a pilot project to increase biodiversity across the district. Some green spaces will remain uncut in order to find out what wildflowers grow naturally and the wildlife they attract. The project will start later this month and will feed into a county-wide audit taking place this summer which aims to better understand the rich biodiversity across Hertfordshire — everything fr...

- Credit: Archant A Thaxted resident had their doorbell ripped off from their home.   This is one of two recent crimes involving doorbells in the village, and took place at a property in Mill End at 10.30pm on March 26. The suspect fled the scene after committing the offence. In a separate incident earlier that day, a resident had their doorbell and an agapanthus plant stolen from their house in Weaverhead Lane at 7pm.   Should you have any information about these incidents, call Esse...

Small tree to remember farmer with big personality );  ); A TREE has been planted in memory of a farmer who died in an accident while working. Friends and relatives of Oliver Bowden, who ran Mill End Farm, near Hambleden, planted the Lebanese cedar sapling at Couchfield Barn, off the footpath on the village outskirts. The tree, which could eventually grow up to 40m tall, is accompanied by a plaque engraved by memorial masons E T Sheppard, of Henley. It carries the inscription: “Oliver Bowden...

FIVE YEARS AGO The Black Boy pub. Photo: Google Street View A proposal to demolish a pub in Bushey and build new homes has been rejected. The application was to build two three bedroom and two four bedroom terraced houses on the site of the Black Boy Pub in Windmill Street, Bushey. At Hertsmere Borough Council’s planning meeting the planning application was unanimously rejected by the committee. Film crew at church in Bushey Cast of Holby City filming at St James Church TV cre...

Watford 19 Coates Way, Watford WD25 9NR. Lawful Development Certificate for a single storey rear extension. 34 St Johns Road, Watford WD17 1QA. Lawful Development Certificate to change the use from class C3 dwelling to Class C4: up to six people living together as a single household of multiple occupancy. 22 Combe Road, Watford WD18 6LD. Lawful Development Certificate for erection of a new front porch. 139 Hempstead Road, Watford WD17 3HF. Erection of rear, side and front extensions i...

Luther Blissett with the blanket knitted by Des Hodges A 95-year-old Watford fan received “one of the best birthday surprises he’s ever had” after Hornets legend Luther Blissett personally collected a blanket that was knitted for him. Des Hodges took up the activity around a year ago and has been selling them to help raise money for an end of Covid party that is being planned where he lives at Friars Mead Care Home in Kings Langley. Des’ daughter Maureen Hastie put a couple of the...

A caravan encampment was quickly escorted away from the grounds of a school over the weekend. Hertfordshire Constabulary has confirmed that police were called to caravans entering the grounds of The Reach Free School in Mill End on Saturday (February 20) just after 2pm. Initial reports suggested that there may have been near to 30 caravans, but Hertfordshire Constabulary says there were 11 caravans logged. After confronted by the police, the site was cleared at 3.30pm. It is understoo...

A rapid Covid testing centre in North Hertfordshire. Credit: Cllr Jeff Jones/Twitter Rapid testing will continue to be readily available across Hertfordshire even though new cases of coronavirus have dipped considerably. The number of new weekly cases in some areas of the county are lower than the November lockdown but rapid testing is a vital way of controlling the spread of Covid-19. Primarily aimed at key workers or people who cannot work at home, the testing is for asymptomatic people...

Rapid Covid testing sites tell people with no Covid symptoms if they are infectious or not. Credit: PA Hertfordshire County Council is continuing to expand the number of sites offering free rapid Covid tests for people with no symptoms. Infection rates continue to drop across the county but officials are ramping up the number of lateral flow tests being made available to key workers and other members of the public. To help prevent asymptomatic people passing the virus on unknowingly, the ...