Borehamwood News
The latest Borehamwood news: planning decisions, council and crime updates, business and community stories, each linked back to its official source.
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Theobald Street Flats: 8 Affordable Homes Set to Be Dropped
Officers back removing all 8 affordable flats from the 41-home Theobald Street scheme in Borehamwood. Councillors decide on Thursday 8 October at 6pm.
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Housing
Catterick Way: 9 Council Social Rent Homes Reach Topping-Out
Nine three-bed social rent flats built by Hertsmere council in Borehamwood have topped out, three for disabled residents. Families move in within months.
Community
Smiths Social Club, Borehamwood: members vow to reopen it
Shut this summer, Smiths Social Club at the Three Ways could return as The Manor Social Club, run by its members. Here is their plan, and what it meant to them.
Planning
Hertsmere Local Plan: Well End's 3,750 Homes Dropped
Four urban extensions with 6,752 homes are out of Hertsmere's final Local Plan, but sites for 14,390 stay in. Councillors vote on 7 October. Every Borehamwood site is listed.
Parking
Borehamwood Parking Changes in Six Roads: Comment by 15 Oct
New permit bays in Ashdown Drive, Boreham Holt and Drayton Road, and new yellow lines in three more Borehamwood roads. Comments close on 15 October; permits from £40.
Potters Bar
Northaw author Dorna Djenab: the phone box that rang
Two lost girls step into a phone box to ring a friend and it rings: it is him. Northaw author Dorna Djenab's book collects 70-plus true coincidences.
Community
Hertsmere Year of Culture grants: £500 each, open 19 Oct
Local groups can bid for up to £500 for a Year of Culture 2027 event. Round 1, for January to March, opens 19 October and closes 22 November.
Community
Elm Court, Potters Bar: new £30,000 kitchen is finished
Elm Court Youth and Community Centre in Potters Bar has a rebuilt kitchen, paid for with £30,000 of levy money, and plans life-skills training for young people.
Hertsmere
Hertsmere council complaints double to 1,134, bins lead
Complaints to Hertsmere council doubled to 1,134 in 2025/26, and 753 were about bins. What was upheld, how slow replies were, and how to complain.
Planning
Borehamwood co-living: 228 rooms planned at NatWest House
NatWest House on Shenley Road would swap 91 studio flats for 228 co-living rooms with 14 parking spaces. Comments to Hertsmere close on 13 October.
Crime
Hertsmere burglaries: free police advice talks from 29 Sept
Free burglary advice talks run in Borehamwood on 29 Sept and 28 Oct and in Radlett on 6 Oct, after two men were arrested over a Potters Bar burglary.
Council
Hertsmere accounts: clean audit not due until its last year
Three years of Hertsmere's accounts carry disclaimed audit opinions. KPMG does not expect a clean one until 2027/28, the council's final year.
Hertsmere
Hertsmere bins: 6.31kg of refuse a week, the most in Herts
Hertsmere households put out 6.31kg of refuse a week, the most of any Hertfordshire district, and a county study found food is the biggest thing in the bin.
Bushey
Bushey artist Max Nadimi, 74, holds his first solo show
Farrokh Nadimi, known as Max, is 74 and has painted all his life. A Lifetime of Looking opens on Thursday in Bushey, for residents and invited guests.
Council
Aycliffe Pavilion: £3.5m Earmarked, Levy Bidding Shut
Hertsmere earmarks £3.5m of developer money to rebuild the derelict Borehamwood pavilion. That leaves £2.4m of £11.4m, and bidding has been shut since May.
Data
Hertsmere Claimant Count: 2,465, a Joint Five-Year High
August's 2,465 is the highest since 2021 and matches August 2024. Under-25s are 50 of the 90-person annual rise, and only Watford ranks higher in Hertfordshire.
House prices
Hertsmere house prices fell £13,751 in July to £548,704
Hertsmere's average fell 2.4% in July, among the steepest monthly falls in England, and now sits 6.4% below its 2022 record, furthest of any Herts district.
Radlett
Radlett nursery death: Hertsmere authorises prosecution
Hertsmere Borough Council has authorised a health and safety prosecution over the death of a two-year-old who choked at a Radlett nursery in November 2020.
Crime
Borehamwood synagogue: man charged over Nazi salute
A 19-year-old is charged over a Nazi salute outside a Croxdale Road synagogue in May and appears in court on 16 October. Patrols step up to Yom Kippur.
Bushey
Bushey funding: £60,868 for scouts, bowls club and clock
Four Bushey projects share £60,868 of levy money: £30,000 to the 64th Scouts, £17,800 to the bowling club and £9,411 to make St James's clock strike again.
Planning
Bushey Golf Club: 250 homes and a £31.6m community hub
Cabinet has backed a foodstore, nursery and community centre on the former Bushey golf course, paid for by 250 homes. Full council decides on 16 September.
Borehamwood
Borehamwood cinema: deal signed for 6 or 7 screens
Hertsmere and REEL have signed an agreement pointing to a 6 or 7 screen cinema in a new Borehamwood leisure quarter. No site and no planning bid yet.
Planning
Dagger Lane Elstree: 17,000sqm warehouses set for approval
Officers recommend approval for three industrial units on Green Belt land at Dagger Lane, now judged grey belt. Hertsmere's committee decides on Thursday 10 September.
Boreham Wood FC
Boreham Wood FC: one 50-year Meadow Park lease proposed
Agreed in principle on 16 September, not yet signed: final terms for Boreham Wood FC's 50-year Meadow Park lease could return on 11 or 25 November.
Young people
Hertsmere: 30 free film-making places for 11 to 17s
A five-day film-making week for 11 to 17 year olds is proposed for the October half term, with 30 free places paid for out of the council's filming income.
Potters Bar
Potters Bar 293 flats: council says design falls short
Hertsmere officers call the Maple House scheme insufficient in design quality and ask the inspector to test the applicant's £14.1m viability deficit. Committee meets 3 September.
Borehamwood
Borehamwood: 154 homes and synagogue on Green Belt fields
A plan for land north of Potters Lane offers 154 homes with half of them affordable, a synagogue and an 80-bed care home on Green Belt. Comments close 15 September.
Potters Bar
Potters Bar: 293 flats bypass the council, decision 5 Nov
A 15-storey, 293-flat plan for Potters Bar High Street goes to a government inspector, not Hertsmere. Comments close 11 September. No affordable homes offered.
Elstree
Allum Lane, Elstree: three Green Belt plans, 336 homes
Three live applications on Allum Lane would put 336 homes and retirement flats on Green Belt between Elstree and Borehamwood, plus a new Schopwick Practice surgery.
Borehamwood
Borehamwood Civic Offices reopen: envelopes not hazardous
The Civic Offices are open as normal. Specialist officers examined the two envelopes found on 19 August, established they were non-hazardous and lifted the cordons.
Potters Bar
Potters Bar parish council: 11 councillors, decision 16 Sept
The consultation closed on Sunday. Hertsmere councillors decide on 16 September whether Potters Bar gets its own parish council, paid for by an uncapped precept.
Radlett
Newberries car park Radlett: resurfacing from September
Radlett's only council car park is being resurfaced from early September. The parish council was told to expect significant disruption and single-lane access.
House prices
Hertsmere house prices: £560,436 and £25k below the peak
The borough average was £560,436 in June, unchanged on the month and £25,497 below its October 2022 record. Three Hertfordshire districts hit new highs.
Planning
Potters Bar HMO clampdown confirmed: new rules 6 May 2027
Hertsmere sealed the Potters Bar Article 4 Direction on 12 August: from 6 May 2027 turning a family home into a shared house needs planning permission. Fourteen landlords have already asked to certify existing HMOs.
Schools
Borehamwood A level results: 65% at A* or A at Yavneh
Yavneh College took 65 per cent of grades at A* or A, Immanuel 52 per cent and Hertswood 27 per cent. The local 2026 results, and the 20 August appeal deadline.
Planning
Meadow Park cafe plan: 67 more spaces, 10 trees to go
Officers back a cafe, public toilets and 67 extra parking spaces at Meadow Park, decided 20 August. Ten trees go, 47 arrive, and the tree consultant objects.