On Tuesday, Anne Main MP held a debate in Parliament to argue for the revision of the business rates system that affects small businesses on the high street. This important debate is part of Anne’s longstanding campaign to stand up for the pubs and small businesses of St Albans.

Members of the the St Albans Save Our Pubs group (Sean Hughes, Christo Tofalli, Mandy McNeil and Alan Oliver)  went to Westminster to lobby for a review business rates to save St Albans pubs.

St Albans District moves up national league table for recycling

St Albans City and District Council is in sight of becoming one of the top ten recycling local authorities in England.

Dear Constituent,

I would like to wish you a happy New Year and I hope you enjoyed a peaceful Christmas. The year has flown by with so much happening in our country and across the world.

Last year in the local elections, many St Albans residents spoke to us about the state of the roads. Those concerns have been heard and actions are being taken by the Conservative led County Council

As a result of this the County Council are; 

Conservative Council wins the right to retain more more business rate income locally. 

In today’s Local Government Finance Settlement it was announced that Hertfordshire will be part of a second wave of councils to be part of the new business rate retention pilot.

St Albans MP Anne Main was ‘delighted’ at the decision announced today to extend Transport for London’s Oyster card and Contactless system to St Albans.

Major progress is being made behind the scenes with plans to build new housing and business space at a development site in the heart of St Albans.

Herts County Council's Cabinet, at its meeting on 22 October 2018, approved the proposal to reduce the hours of darkness from the existing regime of midnight to 6am to a new period from 1am to 5am and will be carried out in areas that have LED street lighting installed.