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Food & Drink Christmas Dinner in Bishop's Stortford: 8 Places to Book Before December Planning Birchanger and Stansted 480 Homes: Inquiry Opens 3 Nov Takeley Garnetts, Takeley: Councillor Calls for Works to Pause

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  1. Fri 6 Nov Health walks 11am · Castle Park entrance, by Link Road car park · Free
  2. Fri 6 Nov Serial Killers Unmasked 7.30pm · South Mill Arts · From £19.50
  3. Sat 7 Nov Nostalgia Day, Sawbridgeworth Sawbridgeworth Memorial Hall and airfield
  4. Sat 7 Nov Bishop's Stortford Market 8.30am · Market Square
  5. Sat 7 Nov Castle Park parkrun 9am · Castle Park · Free

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Parking Bishop's Stortford Parking: Worker Permits Save Up to £200 Up to 100 cut-price Northgate End permits for town centre workers from early November, from £799 a year. The Causeway car park may reopen for Waitrose. · 5 min read Buses East Herts Bus Franchising: County Could Set Fares From 2028 Hertfordshire has formally begun assessing bus franchising for East Herts. It could cost £2.5m to £6.9m a year, and a decision is due in late 2027. · 4 min read Takeley Garnetts, Takeley: Works Now 23 Nov, Exit via Trinity Green Affinity Water has moved its Garnetts works to about 23 November, with access through Trinity Green, days after a notice said no diversion was available. · 11 min read House prices East Herts house prices fall again: growth halves to 1.9% The East Herts average fell £1,018 to £455,973 in August, a second monthly drop, and annual growth halved to 1.9%. Broxbourne rose again. Full figures. · 5 min read Broxbourne Broxbourne Roadworks: Road Closures and Traffic Orders Near Broxbourne Broxbourne roadworks: Footpath to the rear of Nos.1-4 Silverfield (from 16 Nov) and every other traffic order within 3 km, checked each morning with the... Bishop's Stortford Bishop's Stortford Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Bishop's Stortford weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 8°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Broxbourne Broxbourne Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Broxbourne weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 7°C overnight, with a 47% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning. Sawbridgeworth Sawbridgeworth Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Sawbridgeworth weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 8°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Local Info Bishop''s Stortford Petrol Prices: Cheapest Unleaded and Diesel Today Cheapest petrol in Bishop''s Stortford today: unleaded from 158.9p and diesel from 189.9p a litre, across 5 forecourts within 8 miles. Updated every morning... Weather Bishop''s Stortford Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook Bishop''s Stortford weather today: drizzle, 10°C by day and 8°C overnight, with a 65% chance of rain and winds up to 5 mph. Christmas Bishop's Stortford Christmas fun run: Sun 29 Nov, from £7 Grove Cottage's Festive Fun Run is Sunday 29 November at Sworders Field: 5K or 1K at 11am, adults £14, children £7, antlers included. Times and booking. · 3 min read South Mill Arts Nicola Anthony Sculpture Now Permanent at South Mill Arts The Stories that Shape Us, a word sculpture by Stortford artist Nicola Anthony, is now on permanent show at South Mill Arts. Josh Dean MP cut the ribbon. · 5 min read
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This site covers two parts of Hertfordshire that do not usually get put together. Bishop’s Stortford sits on the Stort and the Essex border, with Sawbridgeworth below it and Stansted Airport a few minutes up the road. Broxbourne, Waltham Cross, Cheshunt and Hoddesdon are further west, strung along the Lea and the road and rail lines into London.

They are in different district councils, and we are straightforward about that throughout, because it decides who empties your bin and who rules on the application next door. What the two halves share is a county, a set of railway lines into Liverpool Street, and the same problem of decisions being published where nobody reads them. We read them and report what they say, with a link to the document each time.

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  • House prices: the middle Bishop’s Stortford home sold for £416,250, the lowest median of the four East Herts towns, with sold-price figures for Ware, Hertford, Hoddesdon and Cheshunt.
  • Trains to London: 37 minutes off-peak, longer in the rush hour, plus 2026 season prices and the contactless fares that arrived in March.
  • Roadworks and parking: what is closed on the M11 and A120 this week, the A10 Cheshunt plan, and the car park that costs half what the others do.
  • Things to do: the free museum and castle mound in the town centre, and checked prices for everything within half an hour.
  • Planning news: East Herts is down to 3.4 years of housing land, and Old River Lane is still undecided.

The Local Info hub collects these and everything else we hold on the practical side of living here. News and What’s On follow as the site grows.

Every fact carries a link to its official source.