This week's email newsletter has just gone out to subscribers. You can read it here: https://mailchi.mp/bimafolami/newsletter-15-08-2022.
This week's headlines:
• Hertfordshire now moved into drought status
• Information about forthcoming train strikes impacting Hitchin & Harpenden
• Taking up future funding opportunities for Hitchin Train Station access with the Levelling Up Secretary…
• …And writing to the Transport Secretary to ask if his Department can make funds available for this project
• Raising the problem of HGVs on Hitchin’s residential roads with the Secretary of State for Transport
• Asking the Secretary of State about enforcement of noise conditions at Luton Airport…
• …And raising concerns over the levels of existing noise pollution
• Questioning the Secretary of State over noise pollution from Heathrow operations in our constituency
• Writing to the Secretary of State about the Demand Response Travel project in North and East Hertfordshire…
• …And asking him about running the project across Hitchin & Harpenden
• Taking up rural bus services in Hitchin & Harpenden with the Transport Secretary
• Questioning the Home Secretary about access to public transport for Ukrainian refugees
• Raising constituent concerns over police investigations of foreign registered vehicles
• Writing to the District Council about the Churchgate Shopping Centre in Hitchin
• Support the Harpenden Spotlight on Africa emergency appeal
• Tidying up North Hertfordshire – North Hertfordshire gets chewing gum clean up grant
• Latest update on housing arrangements for Ukrainians approaching six months in to the Homes for Ukraine scheme
• Response from the Department for Transport on climate resilience in local transport
• Join my Hitchin & Harpenden Community Facebook Group
• Don’t forget to sign my petitions on Luton Airport expansion and Harpenden Banking Services
• Listening to our community – let me know your views