A council has said rules brought in by Labour mean it cannot intervene in a dispute over woodland that was torn down by travellers.
Residents told the Daily Mail they were ‘devastated’ after Hertsmere Council said ‘changes to national policy’ meant ‘no further action can be taken’ at a site near St Albans in Hertfordshire.
The Government’s Planning Inspectorate gave the travellers five years of temporary permission to stay on the land in 2024, two years after men arrived to fell the thick layer of trees which bordered Bridgefoot Cottages.
Key to the travellers’ successful appeal was their claim that a mother, Theresa
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