Days after it was claimed he had admitted the former Radlett airfield site was more than likely going to be a lorry terminal, Herts county council leader Cllr Richard Roberts has said his comments were misinterpreted by campaigners. During a demonstration outside County Hall in Hertford on Monday, Joy Mendelsohn from...
The leader of Herts county council has apparently admitted the former Radlett airfield site will become a lorry freight depot - not a strategic rail freight interchange. Cllr Richard Roberts was speaking to Joy Mendelsohn from Park Street Residents Association at a demonstration opposing the SRFI outside County Hall in Hertford...
A St Albans mental health charity is appealing for the community to help raise £20K to enable them to get through the front door and move into their new home. Youth Talk, which provides confidential and free counselling to young people in the St Albans area, was founded 25 years ago...
A crusading councillor is leading a campaign against the scourge of fly-tipping in a bid to make the whole community take responsibility for the problem. Dr Allison Wren, who represents Harpenden North and Rural on St Albans district council, is also the lead councillor with responsibility for waste, and has spent...
James Cameron checks out the new bistro everybody's been talking about...
Little did Mandy Gray realise that days after saying a final farewell to her beloved mother she would be facing the prospect of bidding goodbye to her home of 56 years. Council bosses want to move the disabled tenant out of her modified two-bedroom house in Howland Garth and into a...
Shocking new revelations uncovered by St Albans MP Daisy Cooper suggest a lack of action by Herts county council to oppose the controversial rail freight depot. It is feared the proposal, for Radlett Airfield near Park Street, will not only devastate Green Belt land, but will choke local roads with thousands...
It's the final chance for residents of Chiswell Green to have their say and prevent a staggering 721 new homes from being built on their doorsteps. Developers want to stick the housing on Green Belt land at St Stephen's Farm and south of Chiswell Green Lane, adding 1,800 new residents to...
The government has failed to support the hospitality industry in its latest Budget, a St Albans publican has claimed. Sean Hughes, landlord of The Boot and Dylan’s, and co-founder of the Save St Albans Pubs campaign group, says local venues are actually far worse off after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s spring statement. “The...
A leading planning lawyer has told Herts county councillors they do not have to sell the former Radlett airfield site for redevelopment as a rail freight terminal. The advice, from Paul Brown KC, says HC needs “good reasons” to halt the sale – one of which is if the original planning...
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