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Welcome to Sandridge Parish Council website |
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 This is the Sandridge Parish Council and Community website, serving residents of Sandridge Village, Marshalswick and Jersey Farm in St. Albans, Herts. |
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Sandy Walkington reports |
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 The public meeting organised by St Albans District Council on Thursday 18 January to discuss the proposed massive increase of new homes in Hertfordshire was packed out.
Robert Donald spoke passionately at the meeting. This was remarkable given the appalling weather which meant that people travelling from London had great difficulty getting home. It proved the strength of feeling that there is a real and present danger that the government is setting out to destroy what makes our county and our district so special.
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by Kevin FitzGerald of the CPRE Hertfordshire Society |
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 So here we have it.
The new vision for the future of Hertfordshire, expressed in the jargon-packed “Regional Spatial Strategy” on which we are all invited to comment.
This vision requires the most heavily populated county in the country to take up to 100,000 additional houses |
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Youth Group |
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The church has recently started a Youth Group, which meets at 7pm on Sunday evenings in the Parish Room at the back of the Church
for Food, Fun, and Discussion. |
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Make a commitment to reduce CO2 emmissions |
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The Earth is warming at a rate faster than in any time in the last 1,000 years. The impacts of climate change will be serious and widespread: more violent weather; shifting patterns of rainfall and drought; the spread of tropical diseases like malaria; and rapid increasing extinctions of plant and animal species.
You can do something to Cut the Carbon! |
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from the chairman of SPC Finance Committee |
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One of most important annual tasks we have as a council is to set our spending plans and objectives for the coming year, and translate that in to a budget and the associated precept – that’s the portion that we ask you, our parishioners, to contribute as one of the items on your annual council tax bill.
This article explains our plans for the coming year and beyond. |
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In and around the village by local photographers |
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 Some great photographs of the village and surrounding places by Peter Hyde and Ewart Tearle. Please send in your contributions to add to our gallery. |
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Help and advice on viruses, adware and spyware |
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 There are many things that can go wrong with your PC, but catching a virus is one of the worst. Here is some advice on what to do to protect yourself, along with some suggested commercial or free software you could use. |
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Find a new place to surf the web |
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 Every week we will be highlighting the latest websites we’ve come across that might interest or amuse you. Try archiveawareness, incredibles, freecycle and processlibrary |
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| TheyWorkForYou.com is a non-partisan, volunteer-run website which aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their elected representatives. more... |
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| Over the past year I have been working towards raising money to renovate the two sports courts at Spencer Recreation Ground here in Sandridge Village. Excellent news! I have raised £50,000 to supplement the £22,500 contributed by Sandridge Parish Council and St. Albans District Council to provide you all with a first class sports facility more... |
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The church has recently started a Youth Group, which meets at 7pm on Sunday evenings in the Parish Room at the back of the Church
for Food, Fun, and Discussion. more... |
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| We need your help to build this site and to keep the community informed and up to date with the latest news or issues. To find out how click here... |
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| Photographs from the 1930s and 1960s of Jersey Farm, and newspaper cuttings announcing the "new" housing development, from Robin Corner's recent talk at the community centre more... |
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