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16th May 2024
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Welcome to Network. This week, we let you know about the QR codes on East Herts bins, celebrate National Walking Month, introduce the Hertford Castle Plus Neighbourhood Plan, share news on a home energy efficiency scheme, highlight domestic abuse support drop-in sessions, and invite you to a digital switchover community support session in Bishop's Stortford. All that, plus news from our colleagues at East Herts Healthy Hub.
** If this bin is FULL...
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You may have seen notices like this on bins around our district.
You can scan a featured QR code on the notice using your smartphone, which will take you to a page on our website where you can report full or overflowing litter bins.
By doing this you are helping us keep the district tidy, so that it can continue to be enjoyed by all.
For more information on reporting full or overflowing litter bins in East Herts, please click the button below.
Learn more: Reporting full or overflowing litter bins
** Circular walks around Bishop's Stortford
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May is the UK's National Walking Month and a great time to get out into the countryside.
This week we're focusing on a selection of lovely walks in and around Bishop's Stortford. You can find details of these, together with downloadable maps and leaflets describing the routes, on our website.
Choose from a range of way-marked circular walks which will take you through Southern Country Park, Northern Parkland, Thorley Wedge, Bishop's Park and the Firs.
Visit our website
** Hertford Castle Plus Neighbourhood Plan
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In Hertford, Neighbourhood Plans have already created for Bengeo, Kingsmead and Sele and now it's the turn of the communities covered by Castle, Kingsmead West and Bengeo South wards.
Hertford Town Council has proposed that this area be known as Hertford Castle Plus. Once this designation has been confirmed, the process of creating a Neighbourhood Plan for Hertford Castle Plus will begin. We will ensure that residents are kept fully up to date on next steps and how they can participate.
The overall aim of a Neighbourhood Plan is to ensure that future developments make a positive and beneficial contribution to the wider community and are supported by improvements to local services and infrastructure. They allow communities to have a direct say about challenges they have identified in their local area. These can include the development of residential housing developments, small businesses, local shops and other amenities, as well as the preservation of green spaces.
You can view the Hertford Castle Plus Neighbourhood Area Designation Application via our website and make comments between now and Thursday, 23 May.
Have your say
** New scheme to boost home energy efficiency
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Our recently launched ECO4 and ECO-Flex grant schemes are designed to help lower income households improve the energy efficiency of their homes.
Home upgrades can include improved insulation and ventilation, modern heating systems such as air source heat pumps and solar panels, new heating controls and/or energy efficient lighting.
Applications for the schemes are being managed by the recently launched East Herts Home Energy Support Service which is provided by Better Housing Better Health (BHBH). Local installation suppliers can also apply on a resident’s behalf. Should a resident be approached directly by a supplier regarding the scheme and would like to check their validity, BHBH can also do this for them.
Find out more
** Domestic abuse support: drop-in sessions
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Hertford-based Future Living will hold free weekly domestic abuse drop-in sessions on Tuesdays, starting Tuesday, 4 June. These will take place from 10am - 12am at Vale House, 43, Cowbridge, Hertford SG14 1PN.
The Future Living team will provide information on services they can provide and as well as advice on other local services in a friendly, safe and confidential environment. Men and women are welcome and no appointment is necessary.
For support out of the drop-in sessions, you can call 01992 537344 or you can email info@futurelivinghertford.co.uk and a member of the team will get in touch.
There is no parking at Vale House so visit our website for details of car parking in Hertford.
Car parks in Hertford
** Digital Switchover: community support in Bishop's Stortford
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The digital switchover is taking place in 2025, when telecoms companies will retire the analogue telephone network in place of a digital telephone network.
BT is heading to towns and cities across the East of England in May to talk to residents and businesses about the digital switchover.
They will host a community forum at Bishop's Stortford Library tomorrow (Friday, 17 May) from 10am - 2pm, for those that might need additional support.
You don’t need to book, just turn up!
** Drop-in Sessions
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Healthy Hub East Herts is running drop-in sessions across the district for residents to pop in for FREE help and advice about anything they would like support with.
The next Healthy Hub sessions will take place at:
* Ware Library on Thursday, 6th June between 2pm and 4pm
* Buntingford Library on Tuesday, 4th June between 10am and 12pm.
In addition, you can visit us in person in Hertford every Tuesday and Friday between 9am and 4pm.
We'll be at the Skills & Learning Centre, 67 Fore street, Hertford SG14 1AL.
** Free webinar: how well are you coping at the moment?
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Let's start the conversation!
It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, so TONIGHT from 6:30pm our local Mind Network Services Manager and GP Michael Riggans will host a FREE webinar offering the opportunity to reflect on the question: how well are you coping at the moment?
Michael will share advice and wellbeing support before a Q&A with attendees, with the aim of helping our community cope with the immediate challenges they face in their everyday lives.
For further information and to sign up, please click the button below.
Sign up: free webinar
** Dementia Friends information session
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It is estimated that 14,134 Hertfordshire residents will be living with severe dementia by 2030.
Alzheimer’s Society’s Dementia Friends programme is the biggest ever initiative to change people’s perceptions of dementia. It aims to transform the way the nation thinks, acts and talks about the condition.
Dementia Friends is about learning more about dementia and the small ways you can help. From telling friends about the Dementia Friends programme to visiting someone you know living with dementia, every action counts.
To mark Dementia Action Week (13 - 19 May), there is a Dementia Friends Information session happening on Tuesday, 28th May from 11am - 12pm in Hertford, for those wishing to learn more.
For further information about Dementia Friends or the event, please contact Riccardo Maraia:
* healthyhubeh@eastherts.gov.uk
* 07936953178
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** New Licence Applications
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Details of any new licence applications or applications to vary existing licences allowing the sale of alcohol, the provision of entertainment or late night food can be found on the council's website.
Use this link to find out more information
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** Contact Us
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Should you need to contact East Herts Council about any service we manage please visit the contact us section of our website
which has useful links to direct you to the relevant teams.
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