I hope the new Conservative administration at St Albans District Council has made the right decision in not appealing against the latest High Court ruling. This upheld one of HelioSlough’s challenges to the Secretary of State’s decision to overrule the Planning Inspector’s decision to find in favour of the Park Street lorry terminal after it [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Herts County Council'
Council decides not to appeal Railfreight decision
July 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Sandy's blog
Tags:Eric Pickles·Helioslough·Herts County Council·Park Street·railfreight·Sandy Walkington·St Albans District Council
Railfreight victory by the skin of our teeth
July 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
Thank goodness for common sense government. Today’s announcement that the Secretary of State has over-ruled the planning inspector and rejected Helioslough’s second appeal against refusal of the lorry terminal at Park Street is thoroughly good news.
It is the proper reward for years of hard campaigning.
Had this awful development gone ahead, it would have irrevocably destroyed [...]
Tags:Helioslough·Herts County Council·Herts Highways·Park Street·Radlett freight terminal·Sandy Walkington·St Albans·STRiFE·Tesco
Time to stop vulnerable people being imprisoned in their homes – we need a community approach to clearing pavements
January 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog
I confess that any initial pleasure in the snow is now wearing off. And as I have already discovered today, last night’s slight thaw and then freeze signals more problems for local people trying to get to school, work and the shops.
My car made some interesting manoeuvres when exiting our side road, but it is [...]
Tags:Herts County Council·Herts Highways·Oakwood School·road gritting·Sandy Walkington·St Albans
Stabbed in the front by Herts County Council
October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog
I am frankly dismayed by Hertfordshire County Council’s decision not to make any highways-related objection to the Helioslough freight terminal application. It looks like they have just caved in to Helioslough’s legal threats. It is totally abject for them to cite concern about costs being awarded against them – of course there is [...]
Tags:Helioslough·Herts County Council·Park Street·Radlett freight terminal·Sandy Walkington·St Albans
Historic clean sweep for LibDems in St Albans
June 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Sandy's blog, Street and Pavement Survey
I do not believe that Conservatives and their forbears have ever failed to win a single council seat in the St Albans parliamentary constituency. Well the impossible happened last Thursday when the Liberal Democrats won every single county council division lying wholly or partly within the St Albans constituency boundaries. As Herts County [...]