One year ago this week, a group of concerned residents held a public meeting to discuss plans by Herts county council to sell 300 acres of valuable Green Belt land south of St Albans to developers proposing to build a huge rail freight terminal. Even though planning permission had been granted...
An application from Scott Properties to build 95 houses on 11 acres of arable land in Park Street is due once again before the planning committee on Monday, five months after a decision was deferred. In August the committee requested that the planning department seek expert consultants to support their case...
Churches across St Albans, Harpenden and the district around will be celebrating the birth of Jesus, the new-born king, in services on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Here the St Albans Times publishes a round-up of many of those services, showing the range of celebrations on offer – from midnight Mass...
Campaigners fighting the proposed rail freight terminal on the former Radlett airfield to the south of St Albans now expect a judge to rule whether to grant their request for judicial review early in the New Year. If the review is successful the decision by Herts county council to sell the...
One of the top men in charge of rail freight development company Segro has said an angling club will have to remove unauthorised fencing at a country park. It’s just a few weeks since Verulam Angling Club fenced off sections of Frogmore Lakes surrounding Moor Hill Fisheries, prompting a huge outcry...
The leader of Herts county council has washed his hands once and for all over the sale of the former Radlett Aerodrome for redevelopment as a rail freight terminal. Cllr Richard Roberts said: "Not withstanding the legal challenge brought through the Judicial review, the sale of this site was decided by...
Controversy surrounds the installation of new fencing at a St Albans beauty spot on the doorstep of the rail freight terminal site. Residents living near Frogmore Lakes were shocked to see parts of the country park had been fenced off by Verulam Angling Club, which leases the Moor Hill Fisheries site. The...
St Albans MP Daisy Cooper has met with Park Street residents to discuss the impact of the rail freight development on their lives and homes, and promised to take action to ensure planning conditions were enforced. Speaking to neighbours in Hampden Place, whose houses back onto the site, she told them:...
Neighbours of the proposed rail freight site are furious after a 100-year-old oak tree was chopped down by contractors working at the former Radlett airfield. Frogmore residents say the tree, which shielded their view of the site, was cut down with no warning and no consultation. And they say contractors employed...
Friends, family and former colleagues have been paying tribute to former councillor Dick Downs, who has died aged 76. Dick, who for many years represented Park Street on St Albans District Council and St Stephen’s Parish Council was an important and influential figure in the local community. He founded the Park Street...
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