Hertfordshire Village Of The Year Community project and IT Section Winners 2005

Hertfordshire ICT Winner 2006

Quality Parish Council

Redbourn Parish Council

can be reached by contacting the Parish Clerk: -

Diane Whiskin: - Village Hall, 63 High Street, Redbourn, Herts AL3 7LW

Open to Public: - Mondays to Fridays 9am-1pm. Telephone 01582 794832

Email: - redbournpc@talk21.com

Public Meeting regarding loss of PSCO 13 March 2008 at 7.30pm

Redbourn Parish Council Newsletter Issue 14 Autumn/Winter 2007/2008

• Redbourn Parish Council the first Hertfordshire Parish Council to receive Quality Staus:

Above: Derek Farquharson, Chairman of the Accreditation Panel and John Williams, Chairman of the Hertfordshire Association of Parish and Town Councils presenting the Quality Status Award to Tony Bull, Chairman Redbourn Parish Council. The award demonstrates that the Parish Council has met the standards expected of an effective, representative and active Parish Council.

Redbourn Webmasters thank the Parish Council for their Sponsorship of the website.

Representatives from EDF came to our 18th January 2006, 7.30pm Parish Council Meeting, to explain why we have been having problems in Redbourn. The explanation was that equipment is wearing out and that a line refurbishment program will be put in place this spring. 300 poles and 30km of line are to be replaced over a period of 3 to 4 months. There will be some planned power cuts due to this work. Further details are in Redbourn Parish Council Newsletter Issue 12 Winter 2007

EDF have placed a statement on this website and have phoned some village members to explain the situation

SAVE OUR GREEN BELT

A development twice the size of Redbourn projected for Green Belt land between Hemel Hempstead and the Ml Redbourn (imposed by Planning Inspectors)

A PUBLIC OPEN MEETING was held at the Centenary Suite Redbourn Village Hall Wednesday, 6th December 2006 7.30pm

St Albans District, Parish Councillors and Planning officers were present to answer questions

A summary of the results of the 2004 Vital Village Quetionnaire is on the site.

See below for Dates of Parish Council Meetings, Agenda, Minutes and Planning & Development: also the Parish Council Financial Accounts, Parish Centre Proposal.

Faulty road surface/lightspavement/litter problems

All highway faults may be reported by calling 01438 737320 or 01923 471320 or via the web

0845 125 8000 is now available to report eyesores including abandoned cars, graffiti, litter, dumped rubbish, dirty streets, dog fouling, spills from refuge collection, damaged street furniture, overgrown trees obstructing the highway.

Hertfordshire Observatory

Set up by Hertfordshire Prosperity as a partnership tool in 2001, the Hertfordshire Observatory includes key facts and figures and allows you to analyse data about the county, giving you a comprehensive and accurate picture of what’s happening in Hertfordshire.

We won Hertfordshire Village Of The Year 2002 - Western Region and Overall Winner. The Competition is organised by CPRE - The Hertfordshire Society and is sponsored by Calor Gas and the County Council. Redbourn had the honour of representing the county in the Calor Village of the year of England and Wales. We competed against villages from Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the regional round, trying to reach the short list of six villages and the chance of the £6,000 first prize. We were Region Winner in the Older People category.

We are very pleased to have won this award as it is a recognition of all the hours of voluntary work that many people willingly give to Redbourn to make it such a wonderful place in which to live.

The Judges were in Redbourn for the 2003 competition and we were a section winner. Once again we were Western area winner in 2004. In 2005 we were winners in 2 sections, Community project and IT The Judges comments were: -

"The Best Community Project Award has been won by a village that has won many awards but still keeps coming up with ideas for continuous improvement, including a Disabled Access Footpath Scheme. Best Community Project: REDBOURN".

(This was for the path on the Common to give a circular walk)

"The IT Winner represents Hertfordshire in both the Regional and National Compeititions. Recent nominees, Braughing and Brookmans park, have both won the Regional Competition. In looking for an outstanding county winner to go forward as our representative, one thing which impressed was the deletion of out-of-date forthcoming events, combined with up-to-the minute reporting of current activities. A prime example of this came from our winner. A report of the Village of the Year judging visit, complete with photo, was published on the very day. IT Winner: REDBOURN"

We were please to win the Eastern England IT section in 2005 and the Hertfordshire IT Award in 2006, commended for IT in 2007.

In 2007 we were also commended in the environment category and won the Older People Category

Parish Paths

If you know of a path that has a difficult style or is poorly signed please inform the clerk to the council or a Councillor so that the work can be considered.

Beating The Bounds

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Redbourn Parish Council Agenda, Minutes, Councillors, Village of the year.

REDBOURN PARISH COUNCIL RedbournParishCouncilNewsletter Issue 12 Winter 2007

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See Also: Redbourn Village, Redbourn Village Hall, High Street, Redbourn Common, Redbourn Museum Hear The Bells.

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Diane Whiskin - June 2007