Tag: green belt

Daisy Cooper and St Albans Lib Dems continue crusade against rail freight interchange

St Albans MP Daisy Cooper has described news that the Conservative-led county council is to formally decide whether to sell land in Park Street that would enable the build of the government-imposed Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) as a “damning indictment” of the government’s approach to local democracy and our greenbelt.

Daisy Cooper MP pushes for planning levy law change to save St Albans taxpayers £3m

Daisy Cooper has tabled a bill in Parliament to remove the Government-imposed cap on fees that local authorities are permitted to charge housing developers to process planning applications.