Desk wire
Friday briefing: overcast, 20°C and the official wires
Autopilot desk copy from Open-Meteo, the Environment Agency, police.uk and planning.data.gov.uk, filed 2026-08-28.
28 August 2026
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Borough-wide reporting from Hemel Hempstead to the Chiltern villages.
Desk wire
Thursday briefing: overcast, 18°C and the official wires
Autopilot desk copy from Open-Meteo, the Environment Agency, police.uk and planning.data.gov.uk, filed 2026-08-27.
27 August 2026
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Dacorum property: commuter premiums, village scarcity and a wall of planned homes
Berkhamsted and Tring still command Chiltern prices. Hemel remains the volume market. The next shock is Hemel Garden Communities.
22 August 2026
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Hemel Old Town is the borough’s best argument against the New Town stereotype
A Norman church, a sloping High Street and a Sunday market: the original Hemel never left. It just got a dual carriageway for a neighbour.
20 August 2026
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£1.4 million Stronger Futures fund to land in Dacorum neighbourhoods
The council says the programme will improve streets, support community groups and open opportunities: with Hemel’s neighbourhoods first in line.
14 July 2026
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Thirty-two new council homes completed at Kingside, Grovehill
New tenants joined a ribbon-cutting at a modest scheme that still matters: social rent, in a neighbourhood that is used to watching growth happen elsewhere.
19 June 2026