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From the council's creation in 1974 until 2017, the council was based at Dacorum Civic Centre, also on Marlowes in Hemel Hempstead. That building had previously been called Hemel Hempstead Town Hall, having been built for Hemel Hempstead Borough Council in 1966 to replace the Old Town Hall on High Street. On 16 January 2017 the council opened ...
Hemel Hempstead (/ ˌ h ɛ m əl ˈ h ɛ m p s t ɪ d /) is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England.It is located 24 miles (39 km) north-west of London; nearby towns include Watford, St Albans and Berkhamsted.
The old Hemel Hempstead Civic Centre, now demolished. The first significant municipal building in Hemel Hempstead was the Old Town Hall which was completed in 1851. [1] The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the local municipal borough council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government after a new civic centre, designed by Clifford Culpin and ...
Hemel Hempstead: Unparished area Dacorum: Hemel Hempstead Municipal Borough [3] Aldbury: Civil parish Dacorum: Berkhamsted Rural District [4] Berkhamsted: Town Dacorum: Berkhamsted Urban District [5] Bovingdon: Civil parish Dacorum: Hemel Hempstead Rural District [6] Chipperfield: Civil parish Dacorum: Hemel Hempstead Rural District [6 ...
The leaders of the council have been Liberal Democrats (or their predecessors, the SDP–Liberal Alliance) since 1986, including through some periods of minority administrations. The first election to Three Rivers District Council was held in 1973, initially acting as a shadow authority alongside the outgoing authorities until the new ...
At the 2011 Census the population of the District was included in the Chaulden and Warner's End ward of Dacorum Council. It was the fourth of the new districts built during the expansion of Hemel Hempstead into a new town with work on its construction commencing in 1953. [1]
Detail of the arcading on the ground floor of the corn exchange. A market place was established in the old town under a charter awarded by Henry VIII in 1539. [2] By the early 19th century the market hall took the form of a long range of corn lofts, which stood on pillars, so that markets could be held underneath. [3]
In 2016, Dacorum Council vacated the building and relocated its registry office to Hemel town centre. [26] Dacorum Heritage Trust, a local history advocacy group, has proposed that the building should be converted into a museum and art gallery, to display a collection of archaeological and historical artefacts from the surrounding area. The ...