Pedestrians are up in arms about plans to scrap a footpath for students at St Michael’s Hurst. Hertfordshire County Council (HCC) will determine its own application to remove the requirement for a footway as part of planning permission for the Avanti Meadows Primary School in Farnham Road. The education and highways authority stepped in after East Herts Council accepted that the developer of 35 homes south of the school could not afford to provide the pavement and a crossing stipulated as a condition of planning permission for the properties. The county council built a crossing in September la…