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Thousands of homes are proposed in Dacorum's Local Plan, including near Markyate. - Credit: Archant Thousands of acres of Green Belt land on St Albans' doorstep are at risk from development. The new Local Plan proposed by Dacorum Borough Council (DBC) threatens to destroy over 850 hectares (2,100 acres) of countryside - the equivalent of 1,214 football pitches - with 16,000 new homes. Green Belt land is threatened at Berkhamsted, Tring, Hemel Hempstead, Kings Langley, Bovingdon and Markyate under DBC's development blueprint for the period up to 2038. But countryside charity CPRE (Campaign to ...

12 Feb 2021, 12:43 Logistics is big business. Across the UK, take-up of industrial and logistics space has exceeded the long-term annual average of 14m sq ft every year bar one over the past 13 years. It has more than doubled the long-term average in four of the past six years. The 2020 figure is yet to be confirmed but could reach 40,000,000 sq ft for the first time. In the sphere of logistics, the key drivers of this rapid increase in take-up are the relentless rise of ecommerce and the shift from Just in Time to Just in Case logistics. The latter has been exacerbated by Brexit and Covid, b...

By Kirsten Robertson and Matthew Mclaughlin Toby Sturgis at Wiltshire County Hall Photo by Trev Porter Future developments are being decided upon without the full input from the public, some Wiltshire residents are saying. Over the last two weeks, various online meetings have been held over Local Plans in towns and rural areas. Physical events, where maps and plans might be shown to the public in village or town halls, have not been possible due to the pandemic. Instead, people were invited to sign up for virtual information ses...

Traveller family's 'heartache' over 17-year battle to live on their own land in Cambridgeshire “We don't ask anything of anyone except the right to live on our land in peace." Updated Sign up to FREE email alerts from CambridgeLive - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow me...

MP Layla Moran called on the Government to fund an Abingdon flood scheme warning that “the climate emergency must not be forgotten.” The Lib Dem MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, wrote to the Minister responsible responsible for flooding, calling on her to “reconsider the Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme”. The Abingdon Flood Alleviation Scheme did not go ahead previously due to increased cost projections from the Environment Agency. Ms Moran said residents “felt ignored and overlooked”. After sending the letter, Layla Moran said: “Flooding is about the human cost, not ju...