The redevelopment of the former King Offa pub site is set to cost almost an additional £900K after the previous contractor went into administration. The council-owned site at Norman Close has planning permission to develop two four-bedroom, 11 three-bedroom and one two-bedroom wheelchair accessible home, and Jarvis Contracting Ltd started work...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper and council leader Chris White were walking through the bustling crowds at a heaving Charter Market one Saturday morning about a month ago. Traders were touting their wares, customers were jostling for a bargain, and the sunshine blessed the street scene with a golden hue. Daisy...
It might sound cynical but do the officers working for SADC just dream up ways to make people’s lives even more difficult on a daily basis? Everybody is feeling the pinch. Should you really have to pay to go and visit your friend who has spent a fortune to live...
Another deadline has come and gone for the city centre's beleaguered Jubilee Square - the development once known as CCOS (City Centre Opportunity Site) South. Having previously been promised for completion last October, then March, and more recently the end of July, it now seems unlikely to be completed until next...
Did officers at St Albans district council impose a gagging order on any discussion of a serving Liberal Democrat councillor facing accusations of child sex offences? Disgraced former Sopwell Ward representative Shakir Rahman, 46, of Creighton Avenue, St Albans, has now been convicted of the rape of a child under 13...
Councillors have voted to move the district's draft Local Plan into the next stage - public consultation. Monday's meeting of SADC's planning policy and climate committee saw members rejected calls to pause the plan while government housing targets are reviewed, claiming to do so would open themselves up to external intervention. Public...
Further clarity is needed on whether we need to build on Green Belt land ahead of any decision on a district Local Plan, says Green Party leader Simon Grover. He was speaking to the St Albans Times ahead of a meeting of the SADC planning, policy and climate committee next week,...
A revised date for the completion of Jubilee Square - the development formerly known as CCOS (City Centre Opportunity Site) South has been confirmed by SADC. Despite previous assurances that the work would be complete at the end of March, after missing a previous deadline of October, the current date has...
Green Party campaigner Juliet Voisey has won the St Peter's ward by-election. She becomes the third Green councillor on St Albans district council, joining Cllr Simon Grover and Cllr Matt Fisher. The result of the by-election was: Greens 628, Liberal Democrats 537, Conservative Party 156, Labour 84. Juliet said: “I’m overwhelmed - thank...
Despite suggestions of a Conservative comeback from some quarters, the Liberal Democrats overwhelmingly confirmed the support of the voting public in this May's district council elections - with one anomaly. After narrowly missing out last year by just 21 votes, the Green Party's Matt Fisher turned that around to take a...
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