Environment

Haart estate agent’s listing, inviting offers and a guide price of £150,000, was removed just after the Indie questioned the lack of detail provided.

Developer City & Country takes ‘first step’ with public exhibition of scheme for 1,050 homes on Green Belt farmland between Stansted and Birchanger.

The project, run by the district council, enables people to hire bikes for up to six months and aims to reduce pollution.

Narrow pavements and access issues in Sawbridgeworth’s Bell Street mean highways gritters are unable to safely treat the road in icy conditions.

British Hen Welfare Trust has 300 to rehome in Bishop’s Stortford area and some householders have already volunteered to make new feathered friends.

Assistant head Natalie Mile said: “Volunteering, helping others and community involvement is one of our school values.”

The wildlife haven, protected by a blanket tree preservation order, is back on the market after a series of failed attempts to sell it at auction.

Bishop’s Stortford Town Council has made two previous attempts to buy the wildlife habitat and protect it from development.

East Herts Council has signed an agreement for its development partner Cityheart to begin work on the Old River Lane project.

Labour town and district councillors Yvonne Estop and David Jacobs have stepped in to support Bells Hill residents.

As council awaits ground radar survey results, the condition of the unoccupied property in Spencer Close, Stansted, deteriorated during Storm Bert.

Primary and secondary students from Stortford and villages helped to plant more than 400 trees at Silver Leys Polo Club, the new home of The Nest.

City & Country: “With the focus on ‘greening’, it will... build a buffer between... each settlement to prevent one larger settlement being formed.”

The site, off Hall Road and Church Lane, features woodlands and a lake, and was once part of the grade II listed Elsenham Hall estate.

Penalties “amounting to upwards of £3,000” have been issued to individuals and companies across East Herts.

The veteran specimen marks the parish boundary between the village and Arkesden and could once have been used as a hanging, or gallows, tree.

Vice-chair Jill Dwyer, campaign co-ordinator Jon Dann and members Rich Clark and Roy Parrish backed the agricultural protest at Westminster.

The session in Dunmow Road on Saturday morning (Nov 16) was the 82nd time the group has litter-picked the town.

Jilly McNaughton claims the Clatterbury Oak, which has marked the boundary between Clavering and Arkesden for around 500 years, remains under threat.

A report to Herts County Council’s environment committee revealed there were 30 reports of violent incidents at its 16 recycling centres in 2023-24.