Environment
The Grand Union is Dacorum’s other high street
From Kings Langley through Apsley, Boxmoor and Berkhamsted, the towpath is commute, gym, nature reserve and pub crawl.
15 August 2026
Weekly roll-up
The week in Dacorum · 2026-W33
10 August 2026 – 16 August 2026. Daily briefings stay live and noindexed unless the desk also filed a named story that day.
2026-W33 in Dacorum ran from 10 August 2026 to 16 August 2026. This page is the indexed week. Daily weather-and-crime briefings stay up as live follow pages; they are not the paper.
What the desk actually filed starts with The Grand Union is Dacorum’s other high street. If you only drive the A41 you will miss the point of this borough.
Also on the file: Gadebridge Park’s new dog wash is a small civic pleasure; How Hertfordshire Police actually covers Dacorum; Hemel Hempstead Hospital is not an A&E: and visitors still get caught out.
Taylor Wimpey is back at Homefield. The parish minutes are the public record is still open. Read the serial, not a weather paragraph.
Filed this week
Community
Gadebridge Park’s new dog wash is a small civic pleasure
A self-service wash will not fix a housing crisis. It will save a car interior after a wet walk by the Gade.
13 August 2026
Crime
How Hertfordshire Police actually covers Dacorum
Four neighbourhood teams, a public crime map, and a messaging service called Herts Connected. Here is how to read them without the press-office gloss.
12 August 2026
Health
Hemel Hempstead Hospital is not an A&E: and visitors still get caught out
The Urgent Treatment Centre runs 8am to 10pm. Major emergencies go to Watford General. That split has been true for years. It still needs repeating.
11 August 2026
Still running
- 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