Today was the first opportunity for members of the public to give evidence as witnesses at the Railfreight public inquiry. It was a good morning. Anne Main spoke first and concentrated on rail issues and particularly the disgraceful failure of Network Rail to provide a witness to the Inquiry who could be questioned and cross-examined [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Hands off Herts'
Helioslough rightly under pressure as public has their say at the Inquiry
December 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog
Tags:Hands off Herts·Helioslough·Park Street·Radlett freight terminal·railfreight·railfreight public inquiry·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·St Albans Civic Society·STRiFE
St Albans District Council 1 : Labour Government 0
May 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Overturning the Government’s proposals for house-building in the St Albans Green Belt is a mighty achievement for the Liberal Democrat administration at St Albans City and District Council.
Local Liberal Democrats formed the Hands Off Herts campaign to fight these wholly inappropriate Labour Government plans under their so-called Regional Spatial Strategy to extend Hatfield westwards and [...]
Tags:Hands off Herts·Regional Spatial Strategy·RSS·St Albans District Council
St Albans versus Helioslough – Round Three
May 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Now it has been confirmed that St Albans District Council will consider the new application from Helioslough, we will have to dust off the “Hands Off Herts” logo.
I cannot over-emphasise the destructiveness of the Helioslough proposal. There is no meaningful change in their new proposal. The monster freight terminal they propose would be a [...]
Most Important Ever Public Meeting in St Albans
January 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Liberal Democrats have responded to the Labour Government’s plans to cram the district with over 10,000 extra houses with a ‘Hands Off Herts’ campaign, to be launched on a cross-party basis on 18 January.
Liberal Democrat Leader of St Albans District Council Robert Donald said
We are not going to take this lying down and will protest [...]
Tags:Chris Brazier·Hands off Herts·Robert Donald·Sandy Walkington