West Herts Liberal Democrats - Working for Hertfordshire, for Britain and for You!

The Liberal Democrats are launching a petition in the response to the failure of the County Council to use funds provided by HS2 earmarked to be used this year for resurfacing Woodland Road in Maple Cross.

Please show your support by signing below.

We the undesigned being residents of Maple Cross and West Hyde, understand that Hertfordshire County Council as highway authority, have been given funds by HS2 limited to provide two pedestrian crossings and re surface Woodland Road Maple Cross, this will provide safe crossing areas for children attending Maple Cross school and to repair the damage being done to the road due to greatly increased traffic including large contraction vehicles which are using the road.

The news of the closure of the Bellgate Post Office will be a serious blow to the Highfield Community. Many local residents have relied on its services to avoid going into town. Older residents, and those not on the internet, will be hard hit as they rely on the local post office to pay bills, transfer money and perform numerous other transactions that others take for granted.

This afternoon we have The Flower and Produce Show in Wigginton in the Village Hall.

And tomorrow the equivalent down in Aldbury

The report - "Taxing Land, Not Investment" - calls for the abolition of business rates and its replacement with a tax on land values, the Commercial Landowner Levy (CLL). The levy would remove buildings and machinery from calculations and tax only the land value of commercial sites, boosting investment and cutting taxes for businesses in nine out of ten English local authorities.

While up at Pheasant Close a couple of weeks ago I noticed two gazebos and a small crowd gathered in the cemetery that lies between Rectory Lane and Three Close Lane.

Wandering in I found the crowd listening in rapt attention to the words of a man standing on one of the gravestones.

But, no, it wasn't some re-enactment of the Sermon on the Mount - it was part of the events around the restoration of the Rectory Lane Cemetery. The orator was actually taking the audience through the complex lifestyle and habits of bees.

Well, anything connected with highway work in Hertfordshire is amazingly slow. However, I am still chipping away at the traffic and parking problems in New Mill.

So far I reckon the prize for the fastest and longest-lasting improvement (so far) was the replacement of those awful concrete paviours in the centre of the New Mill roundabout with heavy-duty tarmac. Unlike the paviours which were forever working loose they seem to be surviving pressure from the Heygates lorries very successfully.

I think we can now be very clear that the future for cars and light vans could easily be electric. The following posting is based on a report published on the https://www.nextgreencar.com web site.

The last four years have seen a "remarkable surge in demand for electric vehicles in the UK" - new registrations of plug-in cars increased from 3,500 in 2013 to more than 166,000 by August 2018. There has also been a huge increase in the number of pure-electric and plug-in hybrid models available in the UK, with many of the top manufacturers in the UK now offering a number of EVs as part of their model range.

On the third Tuesday of each month we have our Supper Club here in Berkhamsted.

We discuss politics and anything else we choose to talk about.

It gives us the chance to get to know each other and to put the world to rights.

We welcome all Lib Dem members - and anyone of a similar mindset - who would like to join us.