Does the district’s recently adopted Local Plan provide the protection against speculative development which councillors claimed it would? That’s the question being asked by campaigners fighting against a scheme for 84 homes on Green Belt land in Sandridge village. The Local Plan identifies where more than 15,000 homes should be built across...
An extraordinary meeting of St Albans council has adopted the district's first Local Plan for 34 years. The Plan replaces the District Local Plan Review 1994, and follows four years of work by SADC officers and the Liberal Democrat administration. It allows for the building of 15,000 new homes in the district,...
With just days to go before an emergency meeting of SADC’s Full Council is expected to approve the St Albans Local Plan, further reactions to the Planning Inspectors’ report have come in from campaigners and councillors. After a three-year preparation process and rigorous scrutiny by Inspectors Matthew Birkinshaw and Thomas Bristow,...
Residents from across the district who oppose the council’s proposed Local Plan are being urged to gather peacefully outside the Civic Centre. The gathering is scheduled for 6.15pm on Wednesday September 9, ahead of the Extraordinary Meeting of SADC’s Full Council at 7pm. An ePetition signed by 611 residents has called on...
More than three decades since St Albans last had any semblance of a Local Plan and the final hurdles are in sight for this latest interation following approval by Government inspectors. The Lib Dem Plan took three years to prepare and allows for the building of 15,000 new homes in the...
The fight against 84 homes on farmland in Sandridge village continues, after councillors voted to defer a decision on the Green Belt scheme. The proposals are for arable land owned by the Salvation Army behind Shottfield Close, with the council’s planning officer recommending approval. Local campaign group Save Our Sandridge has been...
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...
A wall of silence has come down over whether archaeological assessments were carried out in advance of extensive roadworks around the Park Street roundabout – potentially the site of a major Roman road. The Watling Street route is believed to have run from Park Street to the roundabout and then to...
Plans have been revealed for a third floor on top of the building on the corner of Catherine Street and St Peter's Street. The scheme for 93 St Peter's Street, a building which includes furniture and interiors shop Zoohause, would see the erection of a recessed third floor on top of...
A petition calling on district councillors to reject the proposed Local Plan has now passed the 500-signature threshold which means it must be debated by the council. At the time of writing, the petition has attracted more than 600 signatures from residents across the district. The petition calls on councillors to vote...
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