The foreign places you can visit without leaving Hertfordshire
Who needs New York when you ve got Watford?
Updated
Just like visiting Amsterdam right?
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The coronavirus pandemic has grounded flights and stopped international travel with hopeful holidaymakers yearning to escape to an exotic island.
But lockdown has made people appreciate and explore their own countries, especially our very own county of Hertfordshire.
Cooking oil could be packed at a new facility near Aylesbury CONTROVERSIAL plans to build an oil-packing facility near Aylesbury are set to get the go-ahead despite local concerns. The Olleco food waste site off Samian Way in Aston Clinton would be home to the new facility, which would also be sued for processing cooking oil. Bosses at Olleco already have planning permission to create a food waste and packaging facility on-site but are now proposing an alternative use. According to plans, the building would almost 15 metres in height and would measure 4,170 square meters. A planning statement read: “It is proposed that the building would be used to receive, store and pack fresh and used cooking oil.
Abbey Manufacturing Estate has been earmarked for redevelopment (Photo: Google Maps) Plans for almost 700 new homes in blocks up to 16 storeys high will be discussed by Brent Council next week. Its planning committee will assess plans for 684 properties at Abbey Manufacturing Estate, near the Grand Union Canal, on Wednesday (February 10). Developers hope to build most of these homes across six blocks of between three and 16 storeys, in addition to a row of four three-storey terraced houses. They argue it is an opportunity to tackle Brent’s housing demand at an industrial site, supported by new commercial space. But several neighbouring properties have voiced opposition to the size of the scheme, which they see as an overdevelopment.