Council capitulates to Hallam Land appeal

April 10th, 2008

The findings of the appeals hearing are published by the council here, but to save you time we have an extract of the relevant pages here. These “Appeals Digests” were released on Monday 7th April 2008.

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Newsletter April 2008

March 18th, 2008

King Harry Lane Playing Fields
On 21 February 2008, the Planning Inspector announced his decision on the Appeal lodged by the developers Hallam Land against the St Albans Council’s refusal to allow building on King Harry Lane Playing Fields. The Inspector said that, following the Hearing held in St Albans on 16-18 January 2008, he had decided to allow Hallam to build their proposed so-called ‘Retirement Community’ on the part of the site adjacent to King Harry Lane (approximately one-third of the total area of the site.) This overturned the two unanimous decisions by the Council’s Planning Committee in February 2006 and March 2007.
The ‘Retirement Community’ will consist of:
• a 40 bed Care Home
• 45 extra care/assisted living units, being 1 and 2 bed flats
• 65 houses, restricted to purchasers aged 55 and over (all leasehold) and consisting of seven 4 bed units, twenty six 3 bed units and thirty two 2 bed units
• 16 key worker units, being 1 bed flats
• Community facilities including swimming pool, gymnasium, day centre and therapy rooms.
Residents contributed most generously to legal costs.
All the Reasons for Refusal submitted by the Council Officers to the Inspector could be satisfied by financial contributions from the developer, except one which involved a modification to a building. None of the Reasons produced by the Residents Association were included by the Officers in the Appeal Document.

Bus services on Verulam Estate
Changes were made to the estate’s bus services from 3 September 2007. The revised route is a clockwise circuit around Abbey Avenue and Mayne Avenue. The Committee contacted Keith White, the County Council Manager responsible for bus services and feedback from bus users is requested.

The Tree Warden for the Verulam Estate is Sue Frearson who has volunteered to take on this monitoring role. Any further volunteers should contact Sue on 01727 761878.

Neighbourhood Watch Scheme (NHW)
Residents should be aware that the local Ward Constable has changed from PC Jodie Dalzell to PC Phil Snook. At the present time our PCSO (Police Community Support Officer) remains as
Jill Brown but she is due to join the Hertfordshire Constabulary in the near future. Who will be allocated to our area is unknown at present.
Crime on the estate continues to decrease (from 2006 to 2007 it went down by some 18%) and we are now classified in 8th position out of 20. This is good but with a figure of 77 crimes recorded in this area we can do better. The OWL (Online Watch Link) has developed very nicely on the estate with many households signed up to the system. However there are still 5 roads which do not have an NHW co-ordinator and several roads need more households on the scheme:- Abbey, Corder, Crossfields, Glevum, Icknield, Jerome, Netherway, St Stephens and Lower Westfields. The messages and guidance of Ken Lane, Area Co-ordinator have been well received. He has been supported by Bob Adams, Trading Standards, who has designated part of Rowlatt Drive as a ‘No Cold Calling Area’ and mounted suitable explanatory Notices. The first local NHW Conference was held in February 2008; there were 5 hours of presentations and workshops which 3 members of the VRA Committee attended, together with the Police and PCSOs.

Recycling Plans
The Council in leaflets notified residents of substantial changes in domestic waste and recycling collections. The garden waste collections will be resumed on 14 March 2008.

‘Core Planning Strategy for St Albans’
The above St Albans Council consultation paper caused considerable concern locally in September 2007. In this document “Area of Search
No. 1: South West St Albans” contained a proposal for a major expansion of the Verulam Estate into the area bounded by the A4147 and the M10. This included up to 900 new homes and a new road linking Blue House Hill roundabout to the M10 along Bedmond Lane to form a St Albans western by-pass.
Special meetings of the VRA Committee were held on his proposal and members of the Committee personally delivered to residents a copy of the leaflet on this issue prepared by Sam Othen of Samian Gate. As a result the number of objections to the proposal sent to the council’s website drastically increased. We must be vigilant in the future as to what happens to this proposal.

Subscriptions
Subscriptions for the year 2008/9 are now due. The Membership Secretary has a group of collectors who will be collecting subscriptions throughout the year or they can be paid direct to the Treasurer, Les Hull, at 7 Claudian Place.

Agenda for 2008 AGM and minutes of 2007 AGM

March 18th, 2008

The Association’s Annual General Meeting for this year will be held on Friday 18 April 2008 in the hall at Prae Wood School. The meeting will commence at 7.30 pm and the Committee invite members to join them for refreshments from 7.00 pm.

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence.
2. Policing / Neighbourhood Watch – Community Police .
3. Waitrose news.
4. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 27 April 2007. Minutes available here.
Copies will be available at the meeting.
5. Matters arising from the minutes.
6. Election of Officers.
7. Chairman’s Report including Verulamium Park Lottery Bid.
8. Treasurer’s Report.
9. Membership Secretary’s Report.
10. King Harry Lane Playing Fields.
11. Subscription Increase.
12. Bus service.
13. Recycling plan.
14. Any other business.
15. Date of next meeting.

Hallam Land win appeal

March 5th, 2008

On 21 February 2008, the Planning Inspector announced his decision on the appeal lodged by the developers Hallam Land against the St Albans Council’s refusal to allow building on King Harry Lane Playing Fields. The Inspector said that, following the hearing held in St Albans on 16-18 January 2008, he had decided to allow Hallam to build their proposed so-called ‘Retirement Community’ on the part of the site adjacent to King Harry Lane (approximately one-third of the total area of the site.) This overturned the two unanimous decisions by the Council’s Planning Committee in February 2006 and March 2007.
The ‘Retirement Community’ will consist of:
- a 40 bed Care Home
- 45 extra care/assisted living units, being 1 and 2 bed flats
- 65 houses, restricted to purchasers aged 55 and over (all leasehold) and consisting of seven 4 bed units, twenty six 3 bed units and thirty two 2 bed units
- 16 key worker units, being 1 bed flats
- Community facilities including swimming pool, gymnasium, day centre and therapy rooms.

Latest King Harry Playing Field application rejected

April 5th, 2007

At the Meeting of the Council’s Plans Central Committee on 26 March, Hallam Land’s proposals to develop KHL Playing Fields were unanimously rejected.

Agenda for 2007 AGM and Minutes of 2006 AGM

March 27th, 2007

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Association’s Annual General Meeting for this year will be held on Friday 27 April 2007 in the hall at Prae Wood School. The meeting will commence at 7.30 pm and the Committee invite members to join them for refreshments from 7.00 pm.

A G E N D A

1. Apologies for absence
2. Policing / Neighbourhood Watch – Community Police
3. Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 21 April 2006 Minutes available below. Copies available at the meeting.
4. Matters arising from the minutes
5. Election of Officers
6. Chairman’s Report
7. Treasurer’s Report
8. Membership Secretary’s Report
9. King Harry Lane Playing Fields
10. Bus service
11. Recycling plan
12. Any other business

The minutes of the 2006 Verulam Residents Association Annual General Meeting are provided in PDF format and may be downloaded from here. Adobe Reader is required to read documents in PDF. It is commonly used and is freely available. 2006 Minutes

King Harry Lane closures

March 8th, 2007

King Harry Lane is to be closed for resurfacing sometime after 2nd April. This will be in two sections, one either side of Abbey Avenue, in seven day blocks. The second closure will divert traffic along Mayne Avenue and Westfields. Heavy Goods vehicles will be diverted via Blue House Hill and Verulam Road during all closures and will be banned from using the entire length of King Harry Lane.

Verulam Estate Bus Services

March 1st, 2007

Changes were made to the estate’s bus services at the beginning of September without warning causing inconvenience to a number of residents including school children. The services are paid for from Council Tax and it was the decision of the County Council. They have explained that the reduction in expenditure was the cause but have not justified the lack of consultation. They say the lack of notice was due to the changes being ‘minor’.

At a meeting held with a number of residents in late February, including bus users, the County Council manager responsible for services on the estate stated that residents could also use the 881 service despite it appearing to be a scholars’ service. The 320 also is routed through the estate on a few journeys.

Due to the poor timekeeping the County Council is proposing a new timetable which would see services operating one way entering the Estate via Abbey Avenue. This approach was tried previously and abandoned after protests.

Another application to build on King Harry Playing fields

December 19th, 2006

A new application to build on the King Harry Playing fields was made on 11 December 2006. The reference number is 5/2006/2729 and can be found on the Council’s website.

Only a third to half the field is planned in Phase 1 - this is the part nearest to King Harry Lane. A care home and residential homes for over 55s plus 16 key worker units are planned. This should put less traffic onto King Harry Lane at rush hours than in the previous applications.

However it is phase 2 and particularly the lack of information about it which gives cause for concern. Phase 1 leaves two roads in place for Phase 2 to be added.

The three week period for objections expires on Friday 16th February. Objections are only taken into consideration on certain grounds.

Planned doorstep collection of rubbish and recycling

November 6th, 2006

A new regime is being planned to commence in late 2007 or early 2008. This will consist of two wheelie bins and two boxes. The wheelie bins will be collected on alternate weeks. One will be for ‘green’ waste including cardboard and the other for rubbish. Either can be used for food waste. Two sizes will be available.

One box will be for plastic bottles, cans and newspaper the other glass. Both will be collected with the green wheelie bin.
Once the new system is in general use the static recycling sites including Waitrose and Sainsbury’s will be removed.