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Yahoo
03-08-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Planned road closures in Watford area among latest public notices
Road closures in Watford and Kings Langley are among the latest public notices for our area. The Public Notice Portal is used to access upcoming and recent information about various restrictions and applications. All temporary road closure orders and other restrictions are valid for up to 18 months from the date they come into force, but restrictions will only apply at times shown on signs at or near the relevant locations. Here are four notices we have compiled which could affect residents in the Watford area. Benskin Road, Watford - temporary closure Hertfordshire County Council is intending to make an order to prohibit all vehicles from using the road from a point 17m south west of its junction with Harwoods Road north eastwards for a distance of approximately 17m. An alternative route will be via Benskin Road, A4145 (Hagden Lane/ Vicarage Road) and Harwoods Road. The existing one-way traffic system on Benskin Road, Watford, from a point 17m south west of its junction with Harwood Road north eastwards for a distance of approximately 265m will be temporarily suspended to enable all vehicles to travel in both directions within this length of road, whilst works are in progress. If made, the order will come into force on August 11. B642 Aldenham Road, Bushey - temporary closure The county council has also made an order to prohibit all vehicles from using Aldenham Road from its junction with the Bushey Hall Road roundabout south westwards for a distance of approximately 80m. An alternative route will be via B462 (Aldenham Road/Hartspring Lane), A41 North Western Avenue, A4008 Stephenson Way and A411 (Waterfields Way/Lower High Street/ Chalk Hill) or via B462 Aldenham Road, A4008 (Aldenham Road/Pinner Road), A411 (Lower High Street/Dalton Way/ Waterfields Way), A4008 Stephenson Way, A41 Otterspool Way and B462 (Hartspring Lane/Aldenham Road). The order came into force on July 28 and is for gas mains to be Lane, Kings Langley - temporary closure The county council is intending to make an order to prohibit all vehicles from using Toms Lane from its its junction with Primrose Hill north eastwards for a distance of approximately 210m. An alternative route will be via Primrose Hill, Station Road, Gallows Hill, Hamilton Road, Hunton Bridge Hill, South Way, Langley Lane, Tibbs Hill Road, Bedmond Road, High Street and Toms Lane. All vehicles are prohibited from waiting at any time on both sides of this length of the road whilst works are in progress. If made, the order will come into force on August 11. Norfolk Road, Rickmansworth - temporary closure The county council intends to prohibit all traffic from using a stretch of Norfolk Road from a point in line with the eastern boundary of No.25 north eastwards and south eastwards for a distance of approximately 12m. An alternative route will be via Norfolk Road, Church Street, Skidmore Way, Waters Drive and Norfolk Road. If made, the order will come into force on August 12.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
NJ public notices: Proposed legislation would end most online publication by news sites
With the end of daily print publication of The Star-Ledger, Jersey Journal, the Times of Trenton and South Jersey Times, New Jersey lawmakers set out to revise the state's system for the publication of public notices. Public notices, sometimes called legal advertisements, are legally required to be printed in newspapers to make the public aware of municipal and county meetings, planning board applications, sheriff's sales and many other official government actions. Under New Jersey law, they have appeared in print newspapers for decades. Late last year, state lawmakers created what they called a temporary fix that has allowed public notices to be published on New Jersey news organizations' digital platforms. Legislation that allowed for online publication, which first expired in February and was extended, is set to expire at the end of June. With that expiration now on the immediate horizon, state Senate President Nick Scutari has introduced legislation to reform the way government entities on all levels advertise a legal notice of any kind. Scutari's bill would require all governments and public entities to publish or advertise legal notices on their own official websites. The bill says each government website would be required to display a clearly marked link to legal notices on its home page, and the listings would have to be available to the public for free. This would be mandatory beginning March 1, 2026, and optional until then. The state also would create a page under the secretary of state's portion of with links to the legal notices page for each public entity. An archive of notices would need to be kept for at least a year, and notices would have to be on the site for at least a week, or a time period required by law, before transfer to the archive. The archive would not have to be maintained until July 1, 2026. For the year starting Jan. 1, 2026, the government entities would be required to advertise at least twice a month, in an eligible online news publication, the complete text of each legal notice on their websites and the link to the state's legal notices page. Any corporation, individual or other entity that is not a public entity required by law, or by the order or rule of any court, to publish or advertise a legal notice would have to do so in an online news publication. 2024: Murphy signs legislation that dismantles access to public records in NJ The notices are intended to make the public aware of meetings and actions being undertaken by their local and county governments. Reconsidering how public notices are presented comes after the Legislature has already already taken steps to limit government transparency and accountability measures. Legislation passed last year gutted the Open Public Records Act, limiting access to government records. In 2023, legislation known as the Elections Transparency Act weakened campaign finance law. Gov. Phil Murphy signed both of those bills into law. Katie Sobko covers the New Jersey Statehouse. Email: sobko@ This article originally appeared on NJ legal notices publication could end with proposed law
