The Parish Council meets at 7.30pm on Thursday, 20 March in the Church Room at Potten End. The agenda can be downloaded and contains links to all the supporting papers.

HertsLynx

The meeting will start with a presentation from Alice Missler of Hertfordshire County Council who will provide an update on the HertsLynx service. If you have any questions or observations on the service – this is your opportunity to raise them!.

Local Government re-organisation

As I reported last month, the Government has announced plans to re-organise local government and has asked Hertfordshire County Council and its districts, including Dacorum, to submit interim plans by 21 March 2025 with full proposals to follow by 28 November. The Government has made it very clear that it expects the plans to be for one or more new unitary councils in Hertfordshire, 

The Council has received a letter from the Chief Executive of Dacorum asking for its views and will discuss at the meeting whether it should respond given that the preliminary response to the Government is due this Friday, and if so how.

Highways

There are even more road closures in and around the parish over the next three months for a variety of reasons. 

• Frithsden Land  is closed for work to the road surface from 17 – 22 March
• Roman Rd is closed for drainage investigation from 17 – 22 March
• Leighton Buzzard Rd will be closed overnight between 2 and 4 April for resurfacing. 
• Hempstead Lane will have traffic restrictions at various times in March, April and May for Highways and Affinity Water
• Water End Rd will also have various closures in May and June for Open Reach and Highways

For more up to date information on roadworks please refer to Causeway one network

Planning

The Council will consider the following applications at its meeting (reference numbers relate to the Dacorum Planning Portal):

• 15 The Back, Potten End – first floor rear extension (25/00570/FHA)