Friday email
This Week in Dacorum
What's on this weekend: Hate Crime Awareness Week Event - Fielder Centre at Fielder Centre, Hatfield Avenue Hatfield. Plus open jobs, Best Cafes in Hemel Hempstead, and the planning desk.
The same list goes out on Friday morning. Berkhamsted and Tring are not subsections of Hemel. Bovingdon is not a Hemel suburb with a market attached.
Indexed week 2026-W42 — daily briefings stay as live follow pages unless the desk also filed a named story that day.
What's on this weekend
The desk has not filed a new named story since Monday. This Friday’s email is the weekend edition: diary, jobs, a Best In list and the planning desk — not an empty inbox.
Leave the house for
- Hate Crime Awareness Week Event - Fielder CentreTue 13 Oct · 9:30 am · Fielder Centre, Hatfield Avenue Hatfield · Berkhamsted
- Coffee with a CopTue 13 Oct · 7:45 am · Woodhall Farm Community Centre, Datchet Close Hemel Hempstead · Hemel Hempstead
- Come and Speak to your local Neighbourhood Team about Anti-Social Behaviour in the area.Fri 16 Oct · 5:30 pm · Tesco Extra, Jarman Way Hemel Hempstead · Kings Langley
- Fraud and Scams Event - Barclays BankWed 14 Oct · 10 am · Barclays Bank, 11 Bank Court Hemel Hempstead · Berkhamsted
- Hate Crime Awareness Week- Electric Umbrella performance with police in the MarlowesWed 14 Oct · 2 pm · Marlowes Hemel Hempstead · Berkhamsted
Jobs this week
- KS1 TeacherBroadfield Academy · FULL TIME
- Class TeacherMarsworth Church of England Infant School · PART TIME
- Exam InvigilatorThe Adeyfield Academy · PART TIME
- 1:1 Learning Support Assistant (complex needs)Bovingdon Primary Academy · PART TIME
- Nursery TeacherGrove Road Primary School · PART TIME
Best In
Best Cafes in Hemel Hempstead
The cafes list for Hemel Hempstead.
Planning and the council
Taylor Wimpey is back at Homefield. The parish minutes are the public record
Still running
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Bovingdon’s edge
Homefield, Grange Farm and every major application that changes the village. Filed from the parish record and the borough register.
Serial
How Hemel grows
Hemel Garden Communities, the local plan, and the designation that lets some majors skip The Forum.
Serial
West Hertfordshire 2028
From the July 2026 decision through Hemel’s parish review and shadow elections to vesting day on 1 April 2028.
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The Tudors
Hemel Hempstead Town, named: results, crowds, kick-offs. Not a Premier League widget.
- Taylor Wimpey is back at Homefield. The parish minutes are the public record · Planning · 28 August 2026
- Dacorum to join a new West Hertfordshire council in 2028 · Politics · 28 August 2026
- Hemel Hempstead asked whether it wants parish councils · Politics · 24 July 2026