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Work due to start on new £4.5 million sheltered housing scheme

08/03/2010

Construction of a new £4.5 million state-of-the-art sheltered housing scheme in St Albans is set to start this month. The new scheme will provide 34 new homes for the elderly. It is a replacement for Eric Steele House in Park Street, and is being provided by St Albans City and District Council working in partnership with local housing association North Hertfordshire Homes.

Services to be improved during severe winter weather

05/03/2010

St Albans City and District Council is formulating a strategy for improving the delivery of key services during periods of severe winter weather in order to minimise any future disruption to their provision.

Heather Cheesbrough has plans for St Albans district’s future

05/03/2010

Heather Cheesbrough, who joined St Albans City and District Council as Head of Planning and Building Control in January 2010, commented: “I am very excited about working with such a progressive council which is at such an important stage with their Local Development Framework (LDF).

St Albans District to support the 10:10 Carbon Reduction Campaign

05/03/2010

It was agreed to support the 10:10 Carbon Reduction Campaign and to prioritise specific projects from the Nottingham Declaration Action Plan which apply to both, at a meeting of Cabinet on 2nd March.

The Mayor’s Message for March

03/03/2010

I recently enjoyed my only official mayoral Town Twinning visit when my wife Marion and I travelled to Fano, Italy for a weekend together. The highlight was their Lent Carnival with its magnificent floats from which large amounts of sweets were thrown into the 50,000 crowd.

Carers - a chance to be heard

02/03/2010

St Albans Local Strategic Partnership brings local organisations together to work together. The Partnership is hosting a Listening to Carers Day for unpaid family carers who live in St Albans District. This is the chance for people who look after someone at home who is frail, ill or disabled to meet other people in the same position, to share experiences and to speak up about the issues that are most important to them.

The Mayor visits the Silver Threads Club

01/03/2010

The Mayor, Cllr Chris Oxley and John Hills, the Mace Bearer, visited the Silver Threads Club in Sandridge and gave a talk about the history of the mayoralty, the mayoral regalia and the historic mace.

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