Liberal Democrat county councillors yesterday morning met county council education planning officials to discuss the primary schools crisis in St Albans.

We looked at possible sites and discovered that officials had compiled their own list without talking to elected councillors first. Many of those offered were clearly unacceptable. Others rejected were much more promising and rejected because of some spurious approach to the geography of St Albans.

I have continued to press for the Eversheds site to be given serious consideration. There will be a further meeting next week involving SABLE, which is protesting about the lack of primary school places.