Newsletters

 

You can open any of the recent WDPS newsletters listed below by clicking on the publication date.

SUMMER 2024
  • Dangerous activity at Blackbridge Tip
  • The Old Bakery eyesore
  • WDPS AGM 2024
  • Monitoring aircraft noise in Wheathampstead
  • Nurturing Trees at Coleman Green
  • Unauthorised development in Gustard Wood
  • WDPS loans thermal camera again
  • WDPS brings Repair Fair to Wheathampstead
  • New WDPS Notelets
  • Taming the Diamond Jubilee Garden
  • WDPS nominated for 2024 Mayor’s Award Prize
  • Sign Cleaning
  • Bulb Planting and tending the Village Planter
AUTUMN 2023
  • Air Quality in & asround Wheathampstead
  • WDPS AGM 2023
  • St Albans District Council’s Draft Local Plan
  • Replacing Lost Trees at Coleman Green
  • Trouble at the Old Bakery
  • Walking Tours for WDPS Members
  • LADACAN holds its 2023 AGM in Wheathampstead
  • Thermal Imaging Camera
  • Christmas Cards & 2024 Calendar

AUTUMN 2022

  • Doing more for Hill Dyke
  • Public inquiry into Luton Airport expansion plans
  • WDPS AGM 2022
  • The Queen’s Green Canopy project
  • Wilding Wheathampstead
  • Christmas Cards andf 2023 Calendars
  • Are there any excuses for dropping litter?
  • CPRE visit Wheathampstead
  • New Crinkle-Crankle signs
  • Repositioning a favourite bench

DECEMBER 2021

  • Luton Airport: More passengers, more traffic, more noise
  • Making Wheathampstead wilder!
  • An Open Letter to all Litter Pickers
  • Gardens for Hedhehogs
  • Preserved church will soon be a gym
  • Christmas Cards and 2022 Calendars
  • Let’s plant some trees!

SUMMER 2021

  • Cherry Trees restaurant demolition
  • Hedgehog Sanctuary visits
  • WDPS 2021 AGM goes online
  • Why do you litter-pick?
  • CCG Plaque unveiled
  • WDPS launches new website
  • Anglia in Bloom deferred till 2022
  • Preserving our verges
  • Dog portraits raise money for WDPS

DECEMBER 2020

  • “We’re talking garbage!”
  • Wandering for Wheathampstead
  • Luton Airport consultations
  • Safe Cycling in Wheathampstead
  • CCG Plaque unveiled
  • Light at the end of the tunnel for Symondshyde?
  • Work continues at the United Church

JULY 2020

  • Preserving the United Church as a Gym
  • WDPS and Covid-19
  • Blooming good AGM
  • Anglia in Bloom deferred till 2021
  • And Luton Airport still want to grow!
  • Crinkle-Crankle Community Garden
  • Keep Wheathampstead Wonderful!
  • TLC for Village Sign and Planter

JANUARY 2020

  • Wheathampstead in Bloom
  • NO to 32 million at Luton Airport
  • Nominations for WDPS Awards

DECEMBER 2019

  • Silver Gilt Award for Bury Green Garden
  • The Future of Luton Airport – the Future of our skies
  • Crinkle-Crankle Community Garden progressing well
  • Digital or Print?
  • More delay over Symondshyde
  • Trouble at Blackbridge Tip

SUMMER 2019

  • A new look at East Lane
  • Crinkle-Crankle Garden takes shape
  • Lively discussion at WDPS AGM
  • Restoring the Garrard Family Monument
  • WDPS seeks new members
  • Wheathampstead Notelets on sale
  • Help with clearing Litter Boom at Mill Race
  • New use for phone box

AUTUMN 2018

  • WDPS wins CPRE Rural Living Award
  • Noise from Luton Airport flights: Keep up the pressure
  • T&B Builders support project to improve river frontage at East Lane
  • Stop the Incinerator!
  • Room for optimism at Save Symondshyde AGM

SUMMER 2018

  • Plastics Campaign gathers momentum
  • Improving the Car Park river frontage
  • WDPS and GDPR
  • Heartwood Forest celebrates 10 years and 600,000 trees
  • Flowers for Wheathampstead
  • Making the WDPS film
  • Tidying the paths in the Diamond Jubilee Garden

FEBRUARY 2018

  • Refuse the straw!
  • Reed Bed Plan is flawed
  • Unauthorised shipping container removed from country lane
  • WDPS arranges further thermography training