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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 [...]

The Secretary of State should re-open the Park Street Freight Terminal Inquiry

October 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

As an individual objector at the Inquiry into the Park Street Freight Terminal, I was one of the “interested parties” written to last month by the Department for Communities and Local Government asking for our views on how the Secretary of State, Eric Pickles, should respond to the High Court order quashing his refusal decision.
The [...]

Council decides not to appeal Railfreight decision

July 12th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Sandy's blog

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 [...]

The latest ruling on the Park Street freight terminal

July 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Sandy's blog

I am still trying to understand the full implications of the recent High Court ruling on the HelioSlough plan to build a massive lorry terminal at Park Street.
After the second public inquiry into St Albans District Council’s second refusal of the scheme in late 2009 – see this blog for lots of previous entries particularly [...]

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 [...]

Helioslough rightly under pressure as public has their say at the Inquiry

December 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

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 [...]

As new railfreight inquiry begins, have we uncovered a fundamental flaw in Helioslough’s traffic modelling?

November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog, Uncategorized

Today was the first day in the new Public Inquiry into developer Helioslough’s appeal against St Albans District Council’s refusal of their application to build a massive freight terminal with a few railway sidings attached in the crucial Green Belt south of the city.
I joined the demonstration organised by STRiFE beforehand and then we all [...]

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 [...]

Over 1200 against, one or two for – it can only be one thing

July 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Hands off Herts, Sandy's blog

Those were the letters sent to St Albans District Council in connection with Helioslough’s second application to build the freight terminal. Tonight’s meeting of the St Albans Planning Referrals Committee duly threw the application out No real surprise there.
The big new news is the opposition of the Association of Train Operating Companies [...]

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Sandy Walkington campaigns with the Liberal Democrats across St Albans