Sandridge Parish Council
 
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Welcome to Sandridge Parish Council website
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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Massive turn-out for Hands off Herts meeting
Sandy Walkington reports
Robert Donald speaks at the public meetingThe 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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Herts CPRE speaks out on threat to Green Belt
by Kevin FitzGerald of the CPRE Hertfordshire Society
Hands off HertsSo 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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St. Leonard's
Youth Group
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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SPC says Cut the Carbon!
Make a commitment to reduce CO2 emmissions
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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Sandridge Parish Council’s 2006 budget and beyond
from the chairman of SPC Finance Committee
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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Sandridge Village in Pictures
In and around the village by local photographers
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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Protect your computer from viruses!
Help and advice on viruses, adware and spyware
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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Websites of the week!
Find a new place to surf the web
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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 Council Matters
They Work For You
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...
Village Sports Court to get significant upgrade
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...
St. Leonard's
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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Jersey Farm Talk - Photo Gallery
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...