Hitchin Bearton Conservatives

Bearton Conservatives

Hertfordshire County Councillor:

Cllr Derrick Ashley (Hitchin South)

Member of Parliament:

Bim Afolami MP

To find out more about your individual representatives, please click on the links to their profiles on the left hand menu. For more information on what we are up to in Hitchin Bearton please see the news items linked below this page.

News

Labour/Lib Dem Administration's Unambitious Tree Plans

North Hertfordshire's Labour/Lib Dem administration's unambitious tree planting scheme would offset the CO2 generated by fewer than 140 North Herts residents each year, according to Conservative estimates.

Labour and Lib Dems Reject Rewilding Plans

Labour and Liberal Democrat Councillors at North Hertfordshire District Council rejected a Conservative proposal to invest £150k over three years in rewilding North Herts. The proposal would have seen nature highways and/or bee and wildflower corridors introduced across North Hertfordshire as part

Labour and Lib Dems Hit North Herts With Maximum Tax Rise

At last week’s North Hertfordshire Full Council, Labour and the Lib Dems refused North Herts Conservatives’ request to freeze Council Tax and voted to hit local residents with a tax rise of the maximum allowed. All North Herts Conservatives voted against any Council Tax increase.

Hertfordshire Conservatives pledge free school meals during the school holidays

Hertfordshire County Council’s Conservative administration has moved quickly to provide food vouchers during the school holidays following the Government’s grant of nearly £2.5m to Hertfordshire. The Council will be providing food vouchers to the value of £15 per week for each child in the County t

Update from Hitchin South County Councillor Derrick Ashley

Action from your county councillor Derrick Ashley. Recent action - moves to restrict obstructive parking in Highbury and Priory, investigating a 20mph zone in gaping lane area, move to restrict heavy vehicles from Willow Lane, supporting better pedestrian access to the town centre by altering pedes

A Victory for Common Sense - Keeping Control of Our Future

A majority of the Conservative and Labour Councillors have voted to reject a motion brought by Liberal Democrats this evening. The defeated motion has already lead to a further delay in determining the Local Plan that keeps control of future development in North Hertfordshire and brings o