Local News
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
Weekly roll-up
The week in Dacorum · 2026-W34
17 August 2026 – 23 August 2026. Daily briefings stay live and noindexed unless the desk also filed a named story that day.
2026-W34 in Dacorum ran from 17 August 2026 to 23 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 Dacorum property: commuter premiums, village scarcity and a wall of planned homes. Ask three estate agents about Dacorum and you will hear three boroughs.
Also on the file: Hemel Old Town is the borough’s best argument against the New Town stereotype; Dacorum schools: the map parents actually need.
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
Local News
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
Education
Dacorum schools: the map parents actually need
Secondary places in Hemel, Berkhamsted and Tring run on Hertfordshire rules, not borough branding. Here is the landscape before you open the application form.
18 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