A smorgasbord of suggestions for future development across the district have been submitted as part of SADC’s call for sites – including huge housing schemes for Green Belt land. The call for sites exercise is an opportunity for individuals, landowners and developers to suggest for development over the next 15-20 years...
Councillors in St Albans district no longer have an automatic right to call-in and decide planning applications at a committee meeting. The change is the result of legislation which will see most applications determined by local authority planning officers without any councillor involvement. Under a new National Scheme of Delegation, councillors are...
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...
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