What will be the Future for our Green and Pleasant Lands under the Tories?
Recent travels have shown many of us the pretty gruesome affect HS2 progress is wreaking on the Chilterns environment and on points further north.
6 Jun 2021
News
Pollinators are more Important than You Might have Thought - they are our Natural Allies in Storing Carbon in the Environment
As long ago as the Hertfordshire County Council Meeting on 16th July 2019 the Liberal Democrats took a lead in improving bio-diversity in terms of encouraging wild flowers at the roadside, thereby protecting pollinators of all kinds. At that meeting the Liberal Democrat County Councillor for Royston West & Rural, Steve Jarvis, who also represents the Weston & Sandon Ward in North Herts District, proposed a motion calling on HCC to bring forward proposals to manage highway maintenance in ways that improve bio-diversity.
2 Jun 2021
A Warm Reception when Leafletting in Friendly Chesham & Amersham. Looking Good for Sarah Green and the Lib Dems!
Happy smiles from Lib Dem activists on Saturday working for candidate Sarah Green, who is standing in the Chesham & Amersham Parliamentary By-Election, where voters go to the polls in 17th June.
30 May 2021
After 36 years, a Promise of Help for Bus Services from the Government. Lib Dems just Hope it will actually Do Some Good!
The Conservatives should know a bit about buses. It was, after all, Mrs Thatcher's Transport Act 1985 which accomplished the destruction of nearly all municipal bus companies outside of a small number of metropolitan areas. Barbara Castle's earlier 1968 Transport Act had introduced the concept of public support for socially important but uncommercial services and this principle was retained. However, the deregulation that was a key element in the Thatcher act, led to a focus on profitable routes, destructive competition between companies and a lack of co-ordination or continuity of services.
28 May 2021
Waste Mix-Ups Cause Chaos and Cost for Councils as Rogue Plastics Contaminate Materials for Recycling
A report in Local Government First reveals that in 2019/20 more than half a million tonnes of household waste collected for recycling could not be sorted and had to be rejected. This is because non-recyclable material had been placed in the wheely bins.
18 May 2021
"Herts Council Council's Inadequate Road Maintenance is a False Economy", say Liberal Democrats
Inadequate road maintenance is a false economy.
16 May 2021