Save St Albans : Fight The Freight

21/05/2025

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/725558
**Signatures needed ***
We already lost our Greenbelt. Now Govn trying to go after EVERY bit of green by calling it "grey"!?!

Petition says: "Grey belt’ was initially described as poor-quality Green Belt land like disused car parks. We believe the new definition in the NPPF is so broad it could include almost any Green Belt land. The Green Belt prevents urban sprawl, protects nature & supports our health. We urge the Government to restore protections by ensuring that ‘grey belt’ proposals are judged against all 5 Green Belt purposes consistently throughout the NPPF to balance development needs against the many benefits of conservation."

We want an urgent change to the ‘grey belt’ definition in the NPPF. We think the grey belt glossary definition [which] could result in the loss of our countryside forever - vital for health and wellbeing, combatting climate change and supporting wildlife - needs revising.

21/05/2025

We think this is sharing.

Read more on the CPRE website . Link in post and here: https://www.cpreherts.org.uk/news/planning-and-infrastructure-bill-2025/

We think the Government's Planning & Infrastructure Bill is bad for nature and bad for the countryside. The Bill as currently proposed would - among other things - reduce the opportunity for legal challenges of large infrastructure projects, reduce democratic input for local authority planning decisions by restricting which planning applications could be decided by elected Councillors, and create options for developers to pay into a Nature Restoration Fund rather than taking responsibility for biodiversity protection and enhancement. CPRE together with over 30 other environmental organisations have written to the Government expressing our concerns and asking the Government to reconsider.

Read more on our website at https://www.cpreherts.org.uk/news/planning-and-infrastructure-bill-2025/

01/05/2025

https://stalbanstimes.co.uk/park-street/a-bridge-too-far-for-rail-freight-depot/

Do we believe SEGROplc? Or is this a case of bridge construction being cheaper than a tunnel?
This is clearly a material amendment.
We suspect there’ll be a lot more “non material” amendments to follow.

Developers Segro have applied for a non-material amendment to their original planning permission which will see an approved tunnel scrapped in favour of a storey-high bridge overlooking nearby Napsbury Park.

22/03/2025

**leaflets dropping through letterboxes** . 📰
We welcome support & campaigning for our fight as an apolitical campaign group. ⚖️
We continue to hold to account Hertfordshire County Council and St Albans City and District Council who continue to let you and us down! 😔

Local Cllrs Nuala Webb and Terrie Smith have, and still do, campaign in person where they can. They held public meetings and roadshows, and demonstrated a few times outside County Hall between January and June 2023 against the land sale. They now regularly meet SEGROplc to raise concerns and continue to hold them to account.

At the Scrutiny & Overview meeting called by Sandy Walkington in May 2023 Stella Nash sent a representative, subsequently there was no actual scrutiny of the reasons why the land should be sold to SEGRO. The land was sold a month later 😔

20/03/2025

Throwback to 20/3/2023
We were at Hertfordshire County Council campaigning outside when they sat to discuss the matter of the sale.

16/02/2025

**Road Closure**
Watling Street [from Park Street roundabout] closed Northbound
17-21 Feb 2025
0930-1600
Diversions might make lorry drivers think they can use Tippendell 🤦🏽‍♀️😑
📸Photos, dashcam, 🚔registration, and time/date needed!
Tell our campaign & Cllrs Nuala Webb and Terrie Smith: will send to police.
We live in hope Hertfordshire County Council might consider sorting the potholes!..

14/02/2025

**Park Street Roundabout**
So turns out the carnage and destruction of trees had a reason but HCC and SEGRO only deigned to tell all AFTER the fact 🙈🤦🏽‍♀️
If you subscribe to updates from SEGROplc you will have received an email with the plans and explaning it is for the road widening and potential lights for A roads.

12/02/2025

The onslaught continues in South Herts.
Cala Homes and the proposed homes along Watling Street. 🚘🚚💨
"sensitive and good traffic Mgt from Watling Street"? Yes...in a place that piles back from Park Street roundabout already...gridlock on its way...🚘🚚💨
Not only is Park Street being uglified it's being built up purportedly "40% affordable housing, 5% self build"
Use their QR code to get in touch:
https://watlingstreet.uk/
Ask them e.g. why a children's playground is being exposed to an area likely to be highly polluted by HGVs and traffic increase, and the lack of trees!
Read their pledge;
https://www.cala.co.uk/sustainability/people-and-communities/community-pledge/

12/02/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19rHvqi74v/
You may have seen the park street roundabout tree 🌳😭 decimation or you may not.
Complain/comment to SEGROplc : https://www.segro.com/countries-repository/united-kingdom/segro-logistics-park-radlett/contact-us
What you will see is a developer doing as they please with no accountability! As warned by us.
Our councils are ineffectual at holding to account it appears. Hertfordshire County Council nor St Albans City and District Council has reached out or intervened for you/us nor updated us. Or you as to how SEGRO is continuing to "uglify" this part of St Albans.

SEGRO Park Radlett Contact Us

12/01/2025

Thank you to those who attended the SEGRO exhibition at the Village Hall this week.
Please now see an updated Q&A section provided to us by Mick, their liaison.
If you have anything further we are still here to help.
Cllrs Terrie and Nuala and our campaign continue holding them to account.

SEGRO Park Radlett Master plan

07/01/2025

*SEGRO plans displayed REMINDER*
𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖.
𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨.
Our local councillors Terrie and Nuala will be on hand if you have specific questions too.
Excellent way to share ideas as well as concerns.
🏤𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙎𝙩 𝙑𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡
🗓️𝐖𝐞𝐝 𝟖 & 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫 𝟖 𝐉𝐚𝐧
⏰9𝙖𝙢 𝙩𝙤 9𝙥𝙢 (manned)
[Cllrs from 10am with breaks]
- Also, 𝘚𝘢𝘵 11/ 𝘚𝘶𝘯12 𝘶𝘯𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘥 until 5pm ONLY (Village Hall staff remain for H&S only)