Contractor appointed for Park Street rail freight terminal

23 Sep 2025

Construction company STRABAG UK has been awarded the contract to deliver the next and final phase of infrastructure works at SEGRO Logistics Park in Park Street. Working in partnership with Enfield-based civil engineering firm, Galldris, and Huntingdon-based earthworks specialist Mick George Group, the contract covers the creation of the plots on which the rail terminal and warehouses will be built; the establishment of the bund surrounding the development plateau; the building of the private estate roads; and the construction of the rail terminal. This work will also include a range of offsite highway improvements, such as junction upgrades on the A414 and M25, as well as a new link road bypassing Park Street and Frogmore.

A spokesperson for STRABAG UK said: "We are committed to working with SEGRO and other delivery partners to ensure that the community are kept informed of key work activity that may impact them. The teams are in the process of site mobilisation and will commence work promptly." St Albans South county councillor Sandy Walkington said: "These are fine words about 'the community being kept informed' but this needs to be a two-way street with the ability for the community to have input to ensure that any works are as little disruptive as possible."

Local campaigner Andy Love added: "Although south St Albans residents are very much aware of the planning permission for a massive Strategic Rail Freight Interchange (SRFI) in Park Street and the unpopular sale by Herts county council of publicly owned greenbelt in Park Street to allow SEGRO to proceed with this development, this news about the appointment of contractors feels, to me, like the final nail in the coffin. "Can I offer any hope that the construction of these massive warehouses and then when operational, the thousands of additional HGVs and commercial vehicles using the St Albans' section of the A414 will not be as bad as many feared? Sadly no!

"We all know that if there is an accident on any of the local stretches of the M1, M25, A1(M1) or A414, traffic can quickly become gridlocked.

Can the SRFI operations and those commuting to work there cope with such daily uncertainties of horrendous congestion?

I'll leave that question for others to answer, particularly those that allowed this development to proceed so close to the centre of historic and highly populated St Albans!"

References

1. ^ Park Street (stalbanstimes.co.uk)