Additional funding for drainage shows Hertfordshire County Council’s commitment to making a difference to ‘the consequences of climate change’

A four-year package to improve the drainage systems on the Hertfordshire road network comes into effect this year with the highways teams at Hertfordshire County Council making use of additional drainage funding of £16million. Climate change has caused different rainfall patterns in the last few years, which means the drainage provision on the council’s roads […]

First planning stage starts on Hertfordshire to Essex Rapid Transit

Hertfordshire County Council has launched the first planning stage for its Hertfordshire to Essex Rapid Transit (HERT) project. The suggestion is that HERT would run from Hemel Hempstead to Stansted Airport. The county council is developing a proposal for a MRT system to run along the A414 corridor as part of a strategy to improve […]

Hertfordshire gets £6.4m in second tranche of Active Travel Fund

Hertfordshire CC has been awarded £6.4m by the Department for Transport after a successful bid by the County Council for a share of the second phase of the Active Travel Fund grant. The first phase of funding allocated to Hertfordshire in June (£1.25m) enabled the county council to implement a range of temporary active travel […]