County Council will just not learn that you cannot treat St Albans residents with contempt and get away with it.

On Thursday evening the council’s land agents distributed a letter to local residents saying that on Monday they would return to Birklands Meadow to clear the scrub and self seeded trees.

Now last year they agreed to have dialogue with the residents before going back to finish the work. After numerous phone calls and emails from both myself and Robert Donald the Monday start has once again been postponed until a meeting with local residents has been held.

All of this could have been avoided if they simply did what the agreed to in the first place.