The environmental cost of the controversial Park Street rail freight depot continues to mount up, as dozens of mature trees have been chopped down to allow access to the site from the A414. Between 60 to 70 trees on what was once Hedges Farm have been destroyed by Herts county council...
One of Park Street’s oldest houses is on the market for the first time in more than two decades. Local artist and author Suzi Clark is planning a move to the Cotswolds to be closer to family, which means Rose Cottage is looking for a new owner. Grade II listed and timber...
Dramatic photos taken from across St Albans show the thick billowing clouds of smoke erupting from the fire at Ventura Park in Colney Street. They include pictures taken from the roof of The Maltings Shopping Centre by manager Richard Marrett. London firefighters are supporting their colleagues from Herts in bringing the inferno...
Rail freight developers SEGRO have snubbed calls by residents of Frogmore and Park Street for compensation over the daily dumping of dust from the site onto their properties. Throughout the recent heatwaves, dust from the former Radlett Aerodrome site is blowing across the villages and onto vehicles, windows, garden furniture, washing...
The A5183 Watling Street northbound exit from the Park Street roundabout will be closed full‑time, day and night, for approximately four to five weeks over the summer holidays. This closure will begin tomorrow (Saturday July 25) as part of the redesign of the road layout as part of the Radlett Aerodrome...
Should rail freight company SEGRO be compensating neighbouring residents for the disruption caused by the massive development on their doorsteps? With a hosepipe ban imposed across the district, households in Park Street and Frogmore are legally prohibited from hosing down the thick sandy dust which is daily deposited on their cars...
Row upon row of mostly dead saplings and whips stretch into the distance at what should be the new country park created by rail freight depot developers SEGRO. Hundreds of new trees have perished since they were planted over the winter, repeating the pattern of the previous year when exactly the...
Beleagured residents of Park Street and Frogmore are urging St Albans MP Daisy Cooper to take urgent action to tackle the billowing clouds of dust from the nearby rail freight development. During the recent heatwave, most residents found themselves sealed indoors — windows shut against constant clay dust and structural noise...
Frogmore residents have challenged rail freight developer SEGRO to provide evidence of the ecological surveys they claim were carried out at a site used for nesting by endangered skylarks. As part of the ongoing construction of the strategic rail freight interchange on the former Radlett Aerodrome, SEGRO wants to remove an...
Frogmore residents are fighting to prevent the destruction of a long-established breeding habitat for skylarks, a red-listed species of significant conservation concern in the UK, which could be lost as part of the strategic rail freight development. They want to save a bund - an artificial embankment on the site of...
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