Category: News

On 6th February, Playgroup Day will be celebrated for the 11th time in the playgroups of Hafnarfjörður. To mark the occasion, the playgroups will celebrate in various ways. On this day in 1950, pioneering nursery teachers founded their first association. In celebration of this day, the country's nurseries have celebrated it in a variety of ways, thereby contributing […]

The Winter Festival will be held from 1st to 4th February for the 17th time, taking place in all six municipalities of the capital region. This festival of light and darkness consists of four main pillars: Museum Night, Swimming Pool Night, Snow Celebration and Light Art, along with over 150 free events where numerous artists take part in creating a unique atmosphere in the city. Find out about the full programme […]

The Family Service and Curron Ltd signed an agreement this morning for the use of the CareOn system, a social care technology that streamlines the management of the council's home care service. The company Curron ehf. has developed a smart app which home care staff use to increase the safety of the service, facilitate flexibility, optimisation and improve the quality of the service. The Family Service took part in a pilot project […]

An open house will be held on Monday, 5 February 2018 at Norðurhellu 2, 221 Hafnarfjörður, where the proposal for an amendment to the Master Plan of Hafnarfjörður can be viewed.  The change consists of replacing two connecting roads south of the current settlement with a single road, Ásvallabraut, and altering its route so that it connects to Kaldárselsvegur and Elliðavatnsvegur via a roundabout below Hlíðarþúfurnar, […]

A fault has occurred in the sewage pumps at the City of Hafnarfjörður's pumping and treatment station in Hraunavík today. After inspection, it became clear that it was not safe to run the station's treatment equipment at full capacity while repairs are carried out. From this point on, some of the sewage from the station will bypass the system and flow directly into the sea […]

A town council meeting has been called for Wednesday, 31 January. The meeting will begin at 5 pm in the town council chamber at Hafnarborg, Strandgata 34. You can view the agenda here. You can watch the meeting live here. The broadcast starts promptly at 5:00 pm. 

In January, the musician Jón Ragnar Jónsson will visit all Year 9 pupils at Hafnarfjörður's primary schools. Jón will chat with the pupils in each class about healthy lifestyles, with a special focus on the use of smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes. He brings entertaining life stories and sings a song about love and chewing tobacco. The Cancer Society of Hafnarfjörður and the Municipality of Hafnarfjörður […]

The Municipality of Hafnarfjörður invites tenders for the cleaning of planting beds along main roads in Hafnarfjörður. The beds total approximately 11,753 m². They are of various shapes and contain varying levels of vegetation. Tenders will be opened at the Environmental and Planning Services on 2 February 2018 at 10:30. Tender documents are available from the Environmental and Planning Services of Hafnarfjörður, Norðurhæð 2. Price: kr. 2,000.

Regarding the report in Fréttablaðið yesterday, Friday, 19 January, it is correct that several plots in Skarðshlíð have been returned to the council, but the vast majority of them have been allocated to those who were on the waiting list for plots in the neighbourhood. Those who have returned plots have cited two main reasons. On the one hand, that financing […]

On 18 January, an information meeting about the City Line was held at Hafnarborg. Hrafnkell Á. Proppé, the Regional Planning Director, gave a presentation on the new public transport system, which was presented by the municipalities of the capital region together with Ólöf Kristjánsdóttir, an engineer and Head of Transport at the engineering firm Mannvit, who presented Mannvit's report on a street space assessment. Over a hundred people attended the meeting and many more followed the live stream […]