Since April 2004, Dacorum Sports Trust (DST) has managed the sports services previously provided by Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) on a 20-year contract. Since starting up they have also contracted to run newer facilities and services.
The Conservative Cabinet of Dacorum Borough Council is pushing ahead with a decision to dump its own leisure experts and ignore its own sports policy, without first developing a strategy for the future of Dacorum's Leisure facilities.
STABBED IN THE BACK!
The responsibility for waste is split between the district and borough councils - which are responsible for collecting household waste - and the county council - which is reponsible for setting up Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) and for disposing of all the waste arising within the county. Hertfordshire County Council must devise a Waste Disposal Strategy and this must account for commercial waste as well as all municipal waste. The Hertfordshire Waste Partnership is a consortium between all the districts and boroughs in the county and the the county council itself. This shares costs, refunds savings and explores and assesses new methods of waste disposal. It also uses the economies of scale that result from a county-wide co-ordination in order to negotiate competitive contracts for waste disposal that save money for all of Hertfordshire's council tax payers.
The latest figures show that the NHS's winter crisis is worsening very fast.
To be fair there are several different approaches to making short-distance suburban rail services quieter, greener, less polluting and more efficient. Most involve batteries or fuel cells and relatively short routes. However, this is one which caught my eye recently.
