Residents will be able to visit local attractions for free or try out new leisure activities and restaurants at a discount during St Albans City and District’s Residents First Weekend on 28 and 29 January 2012.

Members of the public are warmly invited to come along to the official launch afternoon of the new advice and information centre in the Civic Centre, St Albans, on the afternoon of Monday 30 January.

The Council has launched a new web service through which residents can view detailed information tailored to any individual address in the District.

St Albans City and District Council is to consult local businesses on the amount and type of waste they recycle to inform a future strategy on increasing recycling across the District.

St Albans City & District Council is appealing for information following the theft of a number of rare Saxon silver coins from a locked display cabinet in the Medieval Gallery at the Museum of St Albans.

Local residents and community groups will have the opportunity to see the facilities on offer at the Cunningham Community Hub at a special open day on Saturday, 28 January 2012, from 10.30am to 3pm.

The St Albans City and District Community Safety Partnership would like to hear from local residents about what it can do to make the St Albans City and District safer so that it can set priorities for 2012/13.

Batford Springs nature reserve, Lyddekker Park and other assets are to be transferred by St Albans City and District Council to Harpenden Town Council subject to final contractual details being agreed.

The overall percentage of planning decisions taken within time1 by St Albans City and District Council is up again for the fifth month in a row, and now stands at 91% (December 2011), the Council’s Cabinet heard at its meeting on Thursday 19 January. The comparable figure for December 2010 was 47%.