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.

Anne Main MP appeared before the Backbench Business Committee in Parliament last week to request a debate on the ongoing Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh and Myanmar.

St Albans Green Ring – a continuous 6.5 mile cycling and walking route around the City – has been officially opened.

The ring connects many of the City’s green spaces, beauty spots and heritage sites as well as schools, workplaces, leisure facilities and residential areas.

Yesterday in Parliament, St Albans MP Anne Main led a debate on school funding. Mrs Main called the debate and made the opening speech on an important issue. Anne’s speech pressed for more money to go into education ahead of the Chancellor’s budget next week.

Yesterday in Parliament Anne Main met with rail minister, Jo Johnson for an update on Thameslink services from St Albans. The St Albans MP shared the concerns of many of her constituents about the possible delays that could be caused by further planned timetable changes in December.