Friends of Butts Close is a group of local residents and Close users that support the conservation and amenity value of this historic common. You can join the group by emailing buttsclose@gmail.com. They produce four or five newsletters each year, … [Read more...]
Friends of Butts Close Newsletters
FoBC Newsletter March 2025 Friends of Butts Close Newsletter September 2024 Friends of Butts Close Newsletter March 2024 Friends of Butts Close Newsletter November 2023 Butts Close Species Records 2013-23 - this has to be saved to your … [Read more...]
Air Quality
Air Quality in Hitchin For some years, measurements of the gas nitrogen dioxide (NO2), overwhelmingly due to motor vehicle exhaust fumes, have exceeded acceptable levels at several points in Stevenage Road. NHDC declared an Air Quality Management … [Read more...]
Churchgate May 2025
Churchgate Regeneration Last year North Herts Council appointed Lambert Smith Hampton to help with the next steps. The result of that consultation is here. More is on the Council's website - just click here. On the council's website is the latest … [Read more...]
Luton Airport report May 2025
Luton Airport, now rebranded as Luton Rising, is seeking a Development Consent Order to allow it to increase its passenger numbers from 18 million per year to 32 million by 2038. Plans of this size are regarded as Nationally Significant … [Read more...]
Luton Latest
Luton Airport, now rebranded as Luton Rising, is seeking a Development Consent Order to allow it to increase its passenger numbers from 18 million per year to 32 million by 2038. Plans of this size are regarded as Nationally Significant … [Read more...]
Hitchin Forum’s Big Spring Clean March 2025
About 120 volunteer litter pickers turned-out to tidy up the town on Sunday 23rd March. Early estimates are that over 80 bags of litter were collected from a total of 17 areas around the town – the uncertainty being that volunteers often take … [Read more...]
20mph, 2025
Our November/December newsletter contained thoughts on the recent changes to Bearton Road to support the 20mph limit. The Herts CC proposal on 20 mph limits in Hitchin seems to provoke two reactions – why is it necessary? and why is it not more … [Read more...]
Hitchin Town Council?
This has been a topic over several years, but things are on the move.... Hitchin Initiative has produced leaflets to outline the case for a Town Council, with a new website - https://hitchin.co.uk/ They are seeking support so do sign up if you … [Read more...]
Metal Recycling and HGVs
The issue of metal recycling plants in Hitchin's industrial estate and HGV traffic through residential roads has been literally sparked off by five recent fires at those plants. In the early hours of Friday 8th November, fire fighters and … [Read more...]