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Park Street Freight Terminal: Two Councils, Two Petitions

January 19th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

In my previous blog post, I described the huge support for the STRiFE petition to the county council asking them to neither sell nor lease to Helioslough the land they own at the Radlett Aerodrome site in Park Street. (My understanding is that the Earl of Verulam owns a significant part of the proposed site [...]

Huge turn-out for STRiFE petition photocall

January 6th, 2013 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

There was a gratifyingly large turn-out in this morning’s mist and gloom for the photo-call to promote STRiFE’s petition to Hertfordshire County Council not to sell or lease its land to Helioslough for the freight terminal. Hats off to Cathy Bolshaw and the STRiFE team for being so proactive.
I was joined by Liberal Democrat councillors [...]

A terrible Christmas present for St Albans

December 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

Today’s sneak announcement from Eric Pickles that after all he is minded to approve the Helioslough freight terminal is truly terrible news. Nothing has changed in terms of the inappropriateness of this site. It’s going to mean misery for residents in Park Street, Colney Heath and the south of St Albans district. Commuters will suffer [...]

Shock Pickles decision: No new Public Inquiry into Park Street freight terminal

December 14th, 2012 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I am still getting my head round the implications of the letter e-mailed to me this afternoon from the Department for Communities and Local Government stating that Eric Pickles “has concluded that it is unnecessary for him to re-open the inquiry into the Radlett appeal and conjoin it with the planned inquiry into the Colnbrook [...]

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Helioslough latest: Secretary of State announces another Public Inquiry

September 19th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog

I and my Liberal Democrat colleague David Parry were slagged off left and right when we suggested last autumn that the only way forward in terms of preventing the Helioslough Freight Terminal would be to hold a new Public Inquiry, thus allowing substantial new facts on the ground to be considered.
We argued that otherwise the [...]

Park Street Freight Terminal – A tale of two ministers

July 30th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

I am very pleased to reproduce the above letter. A really pathetic attempt by local Conservatives to smear Vince Cable as a supporter of and secret lobbyist for the Park Street freight terminal has backfired spectacularly.
As I have written previously, Conservative Party links to Helioslough were exposed when it was revealed that Simon Hoare, the [...]

Lessons for the Park Street freight terminal decision from the BSkyB scandal

April 25th, 2012 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

“It’s time for deputy heads to roll” was the excellent joke on today’s BBC World at One as they reported the resignation of Jeremy Hunt’s special adviser over his wholly inappropriate links with the Murdoch empire in the middle of a quasi-judicial process to determine the outcome of News Corp’s proposed takeover of BSkyB.
Certainly it [...]

STOP PRESS – Park Street Freight Terminal decision delayed till June

March 29th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog

I have just received an e-mail from the Department for Communities and Local Government to say that the Secretary of State is postponing his response to the court decision on the Helioslough appeal, which we had all been expecting next week.
You will recall that the Planning Inspector recommended approval of the scheme. The Secretary of [...]

High noon for Park Street – official

February 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

The Secretary of State has considered carefully all the representations before him. On the basis of the submissions received, he is of the view that there are no substantive issues which require the Inquiry to be re-opened and he has therefore decided that he is in a position to re-determine the appeal on the basis [...]

A re-opening of the previous public inquiry still makes the most sense if we want to stop the Helioslough lorry terminal

November 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

Along with other witnesses to the previous freight terminal inquiry, David Parry and I were invited to comment on the latest submissions from Helioslough arguing that the Park Street freight terminal should go ahead. St Albans District Council also submitted a critique which is an excellent piece of work and STRiFE offered their own arguments [...]

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