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Ninety-three newly-built flats in St Albans City Centre are to be taken over by one of Hertfordshire’s leading housing associations.

St Albans City and District Council has built the flats along with commercial space as part of a £64 million regeneration project. The Council is now in the final stages of negotiating the sale of all the residential properties at the Jubilee Square development to Watford Community Housing.

Watford Community Housing plans to make 33 available for social rent and sell 60 of the 93 apartments on a shared-ownership basis with support from Homes England.

The Council’s initial plan was to sell 63 of these properties at market rate, but this deal will give young people and key workers in the District the chance to obtain a home of their own at an affordable price in an iconic location. Moreover, the flats have excellent transport links being only a few minutes’ walk away from St Albans City railway station. The remaining 33 social rent flats will be available to people already on the Council’s housing register as was originally planned. Details of the sale should be finalised and contracts exchanged within the next few days.

The Jubilee Square development, formerly known as the City Centre Opportunity Site South, is due to be completed in the late spring by construction contractors Morgan Sindall.The design of the buildings was originally chosen by the public following an architectural competition.

It consists of two iconic blocks of mixed residential and commercial space, off Victoria Street, on the site of the city’s former police station and an NHS clinic.

The 5,000 square metres of commercial space will be rented out by the Council through agents Aitchison Raffety.

For more information please visit: www.stalbans.gov.uk

Contactless Payments Made

A Mandatory Option For Taxis In St Albans District

All taxis operating in St Albans District will have to accept contactless payments and can no longer be cash only.

The rule is intended to improve public safety by ensuring people are not left stranded because they do not have cash. It follows to a growing number of complaints from people who were unable to get a taxi late at night because they only had a card.

The decision to make a contactless payments option mandatory was made by St Albans City and District Council, which licenses taxis within its area, after consulting with taxi drivers and their representatives.

Taxi drivers will have until Wednesday 3 May to comply with the new regulation by equipping their vehicles with card machines or they risk losing their licence.

The machines are able to take contactless payments from mobile phone apps such as Apple Pay as well as bank cards.

The Council licenses taxis classed as either hackney carriage or private hire vehicles that operate within the District. Hackney carriages can pick customers up from anywhere in the District including designated taxi ranks and from the street after being flagged down.

Those licensed to operate in the District are identifiable by their colours of white with a yellow stripe, the only exceptions being some black London-style cabs.

Private hire vehicles have to be booked in advance for specific journeys.

For more information please visit: www.stalbans.gov.uk/news

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