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12:10 PM May 28, 2021
A map showing how the new development between Norton Road, Cashio Lane and Croft Lane in Letchworth might look
- Credit: Herts County Council
An application for up to 42 new homes on the former Norton School playing field site in Letchworth has been deferred for a second time, as councillors seek clarification over access from Herts Highways.
The proposals by Vincent and Gorbing would see homes built on the land between Croft Lane and Cashio Lane, with access via Croft Lane, and is in close proximity to a number of buildings of local interest and listed buildings.
Now Open: Canberra’s New Nikkei-Style Restaurant Brings Together the Flavours of Japan and Peru
It’s a moody, dramatically lit space filled with statues and hangings from Peru. You’ll find Peruvian anticuchos alongside nigiri and sashimi with South American tweaks, and there are three kinds of ceviche to try.
Photography: Ashley St George
by Ashley St George
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At Inka, which opened in March, the focus is on Nikkei-style food – a mash-up cuisine that emerged from Peru’s sizeable Japanese population (Peru has South America’s second-largest population of Japanese people).
It’s easy to see how Nikkei cuisine happened – dishes such as ceviche, Peru’s national dish, seem tailor-made for Japan’s sashimi tradition. Likewise, both cultures revere cooking over flames – whether it’s a robata, hibachi or parilla grill at play. A cuisine that combines Japanese techniques and dishes with South American ingredients and flavours is a no-brainer.
But they lost two seats – including Hitchin South, which had been held by executive member for growth, infrastructure, planning and the economy Cllr Derrick Ashley.
Conservatives Michael Muir (Baldock and Letchworth East), David Barnard (Hitchin Rural) and Richard Thake (Knebworth and Codicote) all kept their seats.
Conservative cabinet member Cllr Terry Hone (Letchworth South), executive member for community safety and waste management was also returned to County Hall.
And so was Fiona Hill (Royston East and Ermine) – whose result was the last in the county to be declared, just after 11pm on Saturday.
Leader of the county council’s Labour group Judi Billing held on to Hitchin North.
Liberal Democrat Steve Jarvis kept hold of the Royston West and Rural division.
And it was fellow Lib Dem Paul Clark who took the Hitchin South seat that had been held by Cllr Ashley – by a margin of just 42 votes.
Meanwhile the Conservatives have retained their control of Hertfordshire County Council – but lost their leader in an election shock when Cllr David Williams lost his Harpenden seat to Lib Dem Paul De Kort.
All 78 seats on the county council were up for grabs. The Conservatives won 46 seats – which is three fewer than they held before, but still 14 more than the other parties put together.
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