Chris White is taking his campaign for a new school in St Albans to Whitehall.

Chris said: ‘At a time when there is no serious opposition to a new school, with the community and the county council lining up in support, it beggars belief that the Department for Education could have made such a mess of things.

‘I have already raised the matter directly with the Decentralisation minister Greg Clark and have now submitted a report to the DfE via Local Government Association contacts.

‘I am sure that blocking new school provision is not the government’s intention and so I am hoping that ministerial intervention will sort out those who failed to agree either of the free school applications that were made for St Albans.’