Griffiths of Abergavenny is announced as the contractor for the City Link Road.

The regeneration of Hereford City takes another step forward with the appointment of Alun Griffiths (Construction) for the construction of the City Link Road (CLR).

Well, after several conversations with Cllr Tracey Bowes and in turn conversation that she has had with other people finally, the overgrown grass in the field in Sydwall Road was cut today! BB had to use a brush cutter initially to lower the height of the grass as it was way to high for their mower to tackle. 

It was lovely to see some kids playing football again on here this afternoon.

Here are a few photographs that I managed to take while grass was being cut.

We do however have large bails of what looks like straw now scattered around the field but hey this is still  excellent news.

Thank you Cllr Bowes for all your help in getting this grass cut. 

Last night we had a very brief reprieve from the weeks of road works and traffic queues on the Belmont Road in Hereford. The traffic lights were removed! Today I drove into the city with no traffic whatsoever, traffic lights and roadworks were completely gone however, on my return late this afternoon, I was surprised to be sat in traffic again.

Can someone please explain to me why oh why we have traffic lights for a few traffic cones that surround fresh air? If more roadworks are going to be started this week, why could they not just set up the lights and cones at the same time? Do we really need traffic lights on a Sunday? This also came as a surprise because there has been no work carried out on a Sunday since these roadworks began, yet some clown was working today in order to cause this chaos, this is totally unnecessary.

On another note, I see that the cyclist thinks that the traffic lights do not apply to him...

Just to be clear, these traffic lights are currently facing the Oval shops, there is a zoomed out photo below

After visiting Swansea/Mumbles over the weekend, I realised what an under used area the Meadows is. Why does it not get utilised more, especially during the summer months? Singleton Park has a boating lake, mini fun rides and bouncy castle for U12s, play park with NO LITTER and no damage, various groups of different ages doing different activities, and food & bar caravans. Not one copper or litter picker in sight! Oh and I didn't even have to pay for parking all day...

What have we got........

Scorched grass where childhood memories lie and extortionate parking charges.

Yes I had to explain why the pool disappeared.

Yes she would like it back! So would I!

The only respite we seem to enjoy other than when the traffic lights break down and fail on the Belmont Road in Hereford (A465) is when the kids are on holiday from school. Now we do not have just 2-3 weeks of road works we have the WHOLE 6 weeks that the kids are off replaced with an even bigger nightmare for drivers!  They did exactly the same in the same location last year.

I do not know if this is just me? Every time I have driven and sat in the endless slow queue of traffic on the Belmont Road, I get to the traffic lights expecting to see lots of busy workman trying to complete this work and to be honest, all we see is the exact opposite! The first time we noticed a guy on the digger asleep, yes asleep (maybe he was on his break) and there were 3 other guys chatting. Later the same evening we I returned to Hereford, there was 1 bloke sat with some earphones listening to something connect near the traffic lights but the other men were not to be seen. Yesterday we drove past and saw only 2 guys both were just leaning on a post and chatting, the same again last night. 

We did not see any work being done over the weekend.

Here are just a few random photographs I took this week but I will try and get a few more.

I appreciate that this is essential work but surely, they could reduce this work to a couple of weeks if they had a few more men and reducing the length of time required and in turn opening this busy road again.

Anyone else noticed this?

Christian Bagley was killed on Father's Day in Hereford six months ago today. West Mercia Police have today released two images of people they would like to speak to. Do you recognise yourself in these images? If so, you could hold vital information which could help the police find who killed Christian.

Today I saw JK in Radford Gardens park, at first I thought he was lost! then I realised he was with a few new recruits litter picking.

The constant litter on this new park is from the same culprits day in day out. Having witnessed and challenged them myself I feel it's time to get the local Bobby round too and make them clear it up. Every little helps; maybe!

The group in question are aged between 13-17 both boys and girls around 8-10 of them. They usually arrive after Tea and vacate around ten, ten thirty pm daily unless it's raining! The mess they leave is disgusting, bottles chip wrappers, sweets etc. I believe them to be localish but not in the direct vacinity of the park. The same group are also responsible for the mindless vandalism around the building site - just for kicks!

So thanks to Jim & co for clearing this mess today it's not even on his patch. Top bloke. Don't forget to drop them sticks off to me Jim. Cheers.

Since when have Keepmoat been in a position to dictate who can park on the public highway? 

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to let you all know about events which we have planned during the next few months at Belmont Community Centre.  If you are interested in attending any of the events please give the Centre a call on 01432 263415. 

There is a small charge for the events and more details can be found on the attached posters. 

It would be fantastic to see the local community supporting these events and we are always looking for more volunteers.

Weekly Craft Group

Saturday 20th August 2016

Children's Olympic Party 10 am to 12.30 pm

Children's Olympics v1.docx

Olympic Buffet and Quiz 3 pm to 6 pm

Olympic Buffet and Quiz V1.docx

Saturday 17th September 2016

Harvest Festival 2 pm to 4 pm

Harvest Festival V1.docx

Saturday 1 October 2016

MacMillan Coffee Morning

Macmillan Coffee Morning October 2016.docx

Saturday 29 October 2016

Children's Halloween Party 2 pm to 4 pm

Children's Halloween Party V1.docx

Adults Halloween Party 6 pm

Adults Halloween Party V1.docx

Saturday 10 December 2016

Santa's Grotto

Sunday 18th December 2016

Christmas Carol Concert

An application has been submitted to turn the former records office in Bath St into a boarding house for the Cathedral School.

Demolish existing building and construct a new boarding house to accommodate 49 pupils, nurse bedroom, houseparent accommodation, housetutors flat and overnight staff room.

Details about the planning can be found here

Last Sunday my Wife & I enjoyed a great day out at Sellack ( less than 10 miles from Hereford city centre ) the whole event as I saw it was generally a great success. With all aspects of country life showed & celebrated by many people, including many who I saw there who live in the city. I was appalled to see that the organisers are thinking of leaving this land at Caradoc which has of late become the home of HCF and relocating to the Bishops meadow ! To try and engage with City folk ! & also to make a joint celebration / memorial of the 1st World War.

I see a fantastic event becoming a disaster that will antagonise and disrupt the South Wye area, not be able to provide the area of land needed for parking of visitors , competitors etc. If per chance it were to be wet what would all those vehicles, feet and the pounding of horses hooves do to the cricket square & football pitches ? Where would the shooting events be held ( need to be away from main arena area etc for noise reasons alone. I am sorry organisers but you surely must think again!

The setting at Caradoc is superb, the size of the meadows area means it would be easy to enlarge the arena, create another smaller arena, enlarge car park and still remain within the confines of the grounds.

I am not saying the current format is perfect, the catering stalls, burgers, pork rolls & general fast food were generally of a poor standard ( my pork roll was almost twice the price of the ones sold in High Town with half the meat in it & no crackling ) such a shame for a County that provides quality food for so many throughout the Nation. Such a shame when Hereford boasts some of the finest Indie restaraunts around, why couldn't we have had the choice of a Rule of Tum or Beefy boys burger, or a Shack Revolution pizza or indeed a baked potato or Pork roll as served in High Town ! Perhaps it may be an idea to invite the Hereford Indie Food guys to go on tour with a pre event taster tour next year !

Really organising committee , don't do it you will spoil a great event just work on what you have already got and here's looking forward to Caradoc 2017.

Pete

Stand for West Midland Combined Authority and Herefordshire council is ploughing £25,000 of our money that we have not go into this. Nice of them to ask us, Another waste of money into another useless organisation that will do nothing for us.

Money going to a CEO, managers, board members and anyone else tyhey want to keep in a job, Birmingham and all the other big cities will grab our money and well will get nothing out of like normal.

Instead of wasting £25,000 on this rubbish use it to clean this stinking city up.

Was out on the town last night. First in a while. The new Hogwarts pub is well presented and maintained. A group of lads were getting a little over excited and had their ear bent by security, allowing them to continue their enjoyment but toned down. Well tackled. I digress......

Walking from one establishment to the next I encountered a 'bare' High Town - and what an eyesore! The place was covered in litter from the day traders, it consisted of pop bottles coffee cups wrappers of sorts fast food tubs etc etc. Does it not get cleaned after hours? It really was a shocking sight. Disgusting. Why do I pay my council tax again?

The thing to note is After the shooting BBC interviewed 2 witnesses one was American one was English you did not see there faces .Ask yourself the question no French people around in that part of Paris seems odd it is the contrived plan by the Illuminati to put everyone in a false sense of fear. They create a problem wait for the peoples reaction then offer a solution that fits there agenda. Go on you tube and read about Albert Pikes letter to Manzzini written in 1878 then try and tell me i am wrong in what i have just written.

For those that are not aware when a housing development is built a CIL's charge is made by the Council.  Once upon a time this payment was used in the area affected by the development.  This has now changed to those that have Neighbourhood Plans receive 25% of the charge those that do not have a NDP receive 15%. The remaining amount goes to the Council. This is quite a considerable amount of money going into the coffers of the Council but is little mentioned and is fairly ironic that the people who have actively objected to the Link Road and the SLR find that the money that should have been spent to improve their community is now being used on some white elephant.   

I may have my facts not quite spot on and if anybody is the wiser please correct me.

Well what can I say, other than a huge THANK/ YOU! To everyone who joined for the Great Western Way Clean Up. This was really a brilliant example of a community working together. We had senior Police Officers, Police Cadets, Community Support Officers, over 10 Councillors, several members from Hereford Voice, the Hereford Mayor and an army of volunteers from within the community.

We have made a big improvement along here and cleared away lots of overgrown trees and bushed allowing more light in. This event I would like to run every year so that we can keep on top of this.

Here are just a few photographs I managed to grab.

Authorised Travellers sites public consultation

Out walking on this beautiful sunny morning and saw this eye sore! 2 mattresses just dumped on the footpath between Sydwall Road and Belmont Road, what is wrong with people? I noticed there is plastic on the one end perhaps they can grab a finger print and prosecute these vile people.