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MP backs Hatfield businesses in concerns over new parking restrictions
Hatfield businesses are pushing back on proposals to severely restrict parking that they believe will damage trade. Multiple businesses in Bury Road industrial estate and the surrounding area have approached local MP Grant Shapps to support their request for the...
read moreTime running out to save historic chalk streams
Welwyn Hatfield MP Grant Shapps has written to both the Environment Secretary and the Environment Agency to call for urgent action to save the highly valuable chalk streams as many dry up across Hertfordshire. The mineral rich streams are extremely rare with only 200...
read moreThe next generation meet local MP at Parliament
Members of Welwyn Hatfield’s Youth Council followed up their exclusive tour of Parliament last week by holding a Question Time session there with local MP Grant Shapps. The Youth Councillors, aged between 11 and 16, went on the tour as part of the Council scheme,...
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The UK now has more public electric car charging locations than petrol stations⛽. BUT the array of payment systems remains bewildering 🤔…
Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council - Working better, together - Have your say on polling places
Are polling stations in the right place? @WelHatCouncil is conducting a review of them in the borough. The consultation closes on 1st October…
As an angry commuter furious about cancellations & delays, I want trains to run on time! This won’t be instant, but Keith Williams (pic left)..
Summer charity fete taking place tomorrow from midday at the Ludwick Family Centre on Hall Grove. Money raised will go to keeping it open for..
Finally taken delivery of electric car exactly 2yrs after ordering! Amazing to drive & just £7.20 to fill ‘tank’ . Well worth the wait! I’m..
Yes and no, in that there are more electric locations and of course only a fraction of the cars (just 0.2% of cars on road are electric so far, though expanding fast). So overall the proportion is very good. But we need them more regularly spaced.
@grantshapps A bit disingenuous because a petrol station has how many pumps per site on average? Come back to the public when theres more charging points than fuel pumps & they are standardised in design & charging systems. Perhaps the govt should mandate the charging standards?
The UK now has more public electric car 🚘 charging locations than petrol stations⛽. BUT the array of payment systems remains bewildering 🤔. I'm keen to see each fast-charge location accept debit/credit + Contactless by next Spring. Let's make driving electric cars hassle free!
Are polling stations in the right place? @WelHatCouncil is conducting a review of them in the borough. The consultation closes on 1st October. To have your say and find out more info please see here: https://t.co/Q5Ae2dw0XG
We’re helping 16 – 17 y/o 🚆 passengers save £186 a year on their travel!
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But even so... given pollutants contribute directly (not thru warming) to thousands of deaths per year in the UK, it's worth doing regardless of whether other nations following our lead!
@grantshapps Grant, great you are doing your bit for zero carbon, just think, by 2050 we can expect to have reduced global warming by 0.003 deg, reduced CO2 ppmv from 477.7 to 477.1, for a cost of only £670 Billion to the UK taxpayer. What's not to like. The climate is cooling, oops 🤔🤫