St Albans news, what's on and local information

St Albans is built next to the Roman city it replaced. Verulamium is the park at the bottom of the hill and the abbey is at the top, and the medieval clock tower is still standing in the middle of the market. Harpenden is four miles north with its own common and its own high street, and around them are Wheathampstead, Redbourn, London Colney, Sandridge and Bricket Wood.

St Albans Daily reports what the record shows. St Albans City and District Council decides planning, bins, car parks and licensing; Hertfordshire County Council runs the roads and the schools. In a district with this much conservation area and this much green belt, the planning register is where nearly every significant local argument begins, and we go through it with the source linked on every fact.

What lives here

• News: the record, including what the Local Plan and the planning register are doing in the city, in Harpenden and in the villages.
• Local Info: house prices by ward and street, trains to London, and roadworks, car park tariffs and travel.
• What’s On: things to do in St Albans and what is happening across the district.

Every fact is linked to the official document it came from.