A push to expand London Luton Airport to become at least as big as Gatwick has been opposed by a community group. The Harpenden Society has set out its objections to plans for LLA to increase its capacity from 18m to 32 million passengers per annum (ppa) - just under the...
Residents living on the Verulam Estate are suffering a ‘double whammy’ of misery courtesy of St Albans district council. Everyone needs nature. And people know what’s fair, what’s just and what’s right. Significant encroachments on green space proposed, prompted (and not prevented) by SADC are abhorrent to every right-minded person living...
One of the biggest arguments put forwards by Herts county council for selling the former Radlett Aerodrome for a strategic rail freight interchange has been the huge financial benefit it will provide for local taxpayers. Campaigners argue that HCC has failed in its fiduciary duty, not only over the value of...
Things have been quiet for a while following the great Verulam Estate land sale, which saw areas of green space auctioned off for development. Vast swathes of what was previously thought to be public land were sold across the estate in June 2021, including one lot around Mayne Avenue, Samian Gate,...
Has the fight against a rail freight terminal in the heart of Park Street's Green Belt taken a positive move forwards? Campaigners are now preparing a series of legal challenges following the sale of the land to developers Segro by Herts county council. Save St Albans: Fight the Freight say they have...
Up to 40 new homes in the heart of the Green Belt will be built on heavily contaminated land, councillors have been warned. Anderson Design and Build Ltd have been awarded conditional planning permission to construct up to 40 dwellings - including three self-build homes - with car and cycle parking,...
Sparrowhawks and red kites soar through the silent skies; meadow pipets, magpies, wrens and robins are frequent visitors to imposing oak trees; and come twilight you can hear the barking of foxes and catch a glimpse of hedgehogs snuffling in local gardens. At night you don’t hear anything at all. The fields...
A grassroots campaign of more than 70 households is fighting plans for up to 40 new homes in the heart of the Green Belt. The Boissy Park Action Group was formed to oppose a scheme by Anderson Design and Build Ltd to construct up to 40 dwellings - including three self-build...
A bid to build a residential development to the rear of a former Indian restaurant has failed at appeal. KFH Property Ltd proposed a change of use for the disused Cherry Trees Indian restaurant in Lower Luton Road, Wheathampstead, to a veterinary practice. But it also called for outline planning permission for...
The largest development in Park Street after the proposed rail freight interchange could cast a further shadow over the lives of local residents. An application from Scott Properties to build 95 houses on 11 acres of arable land in has finally been listed after its submission one and a half years...
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