I posted this topic about CCTV on the Great Western Way Hereford on our Facebook Page on September 24th. This has reached over 24,000 people, we have had over 500 Likes and the topic was shared over 100 times, all of this in less than two weeks!

We continue to grow our audience 

What we need in Hereford is our very own Hereford Festival with local ales and cider.

An annual weekend starting Saturday 12 noon ending Sunday 5pm as an example. The idea would be to use existing local pubs each would have a live band at various time slots throughout the weekend, food could be available, burgers, hot dogs, curries etc.  We could explore having a bus service running between the various pubs at 20-30 minute intervals. Something similar to festivals in other towns. We need to get Hereford as an annual venue for a great festival.

A printed programme with advertisers also listing all the performance times of bands, singers etc and lists of local ales and ciders would be available for £2 or £3 per copy.

Come on people, give me your ides's and let's get our very own Hereford Festival and make our city the place to be next summer!

Finally, we have some good news following on from our campaign for CCTC on the GWW.

Installation work for the new CCTV on the Hunderton Bridge has begun. A tree to the one side has been removed, I assume to give a better view but a lot more clearing up needs to be done.

There are so many overgrown trees and bushes, there is almost a canopy in some parts making it dark during daylight hours.

Traffic is flowing perfectly this morning coming into Hereford on the A449 Belmont Road, guess why? The traffic lights are out! Which proves the point of our campaign.

I was interviewed live on BBC Hereford and Worcester again this morning as they are running a feature on this whole culture of traffic lights and the problems they can cause in some towns and cities.

See the pictures and movie that I took at 9am this morning.

Just to let you know, I have today made my good friend DILLIGAF a Moderator.

He is well experienced using forums and will assist me in the daily running of HV. Although he is still a member here, can you please all make him welcome in his new role too.    DILLIGAF will be there to assist you all in my absence.

Herefordshire Council met with representatives of the owners of the fire damaged buildings in High Town, Hereford on Thursday 1 October and is encouraged by their willingness to facilitate a sale to enable the site to be redeveloped.

The council can confirm that Hereford based architect Hook Mason Ltd has now been instructed to seek pre-application advice from the council’s planning service to obtain a more marketable development with the aim of selling the property and bringing the buildings back into use as soon as possible.

We have just come back from our holiday on Corfu. We have visited the same island and used the same hotel for years and during our trips we have obviously got to know the owners and staff very well. During a discussion recently, I asked if the current migrant situation had effected Corfu at all as I know many migrants had arrived in Kos. I was informed that the only people that normally attempt to go to Corfu are usually people from the neighbouring country of Albania.

I was then asked, if I remembered one of the guys from the animation team when we were there previously, I asked which guy, to which I was informed of his name. We remembered this chap, so the conversation continued, I was told that he was there on summer season work permit from Ghana but failed to turn up to work a few months ago and just disappeared. The owner was later informed that this chap had been talking on his mobile with other people he had been in touch with in Athens for sometime and they told him to get to Athens as soon as possible and join all of the other migrants. He apparently destroyed his passport and is now in Germany along with many others!  This was also confirmed by another member of the animation team that he had kept in touch with and has encouraged to do the same thing. 

How many other people have done this I wonder?

This does not help the plight of genuine refugees and adds further doubt to those countries reluctant to take in these people, especially if they have no passports or documents. 

Employee irregularities .... 

Review underway .... 

Well we are just over a year on from the last time I did this exercise in this topic (December 2013), so lets see what has changed and see what the differences are...

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List of planning public notices affecting the city

 

It is a legal requirement for the council to give public notice of certain types of planning application and other planning matters by the display of an advert in a local newspaper.

 

If you wish to comment, please follow the advice contained in the notice.

 

10th April 2014

The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) 

Order 2010 Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Sections 67 & 73 

 

Application Types: 

P - Planning permission 

L - Listed Building Consent 

AC - Conservation Area Consent 

SL - Affecting the setting of a Listed Building 

AC - Affecting a Conservation Area 

D - Not in accordance with the provisions of the Development Plan 

RW - Affecting a public right of way 

T - For a telecommunications mast 

 

P140904/CD - P 

Provision of a pedestrian and cycle link between the southern end of Station Approach and the northern end of Canal Road. Requiring demolition of existing store building in builders merchant. Proposal includes street lighting and associated landscaping at Jewson Builders Merchant, Canal Wharf, Canal Road, Hereford 

 

P140709/F - AC 

Extension to changing room at Bowling Club Rear Of Asda, Belmont Road, Belmont, Hereford 

 

P140747/F – AC P SL 

Insertion of windows to the north, east and west elevations at Left Bank, Bridge Street, Hereford

 

P140894/L – AC L SL 

Making safe existing garden and boundary walls at Hereford Cathedral School, 29 Castle Street, Hereford 

 

P140963/O – AC D P RW 

Site for the development of up to 135 homes (including 46 affordable homes), public open space, new access (including demolition of 144 Aylestone Hill). Structural landscaping, sustainable drainage including balancing ponds and infrastructure and associated works at Land at 144 Aylestone Hill and land to the east of Aylestone Hill, Hereford 

 

If you wish to make representations or comments you can during the period of 21 days beginning with the date of the publication of this notice quoting the relevant number: 

 

By the Website: Using the online comment form 

By e-mail to: planning_enquiries@herefordshire.gov.uk 

By post to: - Planning Services, PO Box 230, Hereford, HR1 2ZB 

 

ANDREW ASHCROFT (Assistant Director) – 10th April 2014 

Interesting applications concerning Left Bank, Cyclelink and land to the east of Aylestone Hill. Not sure where you find the online comment form?

Please find attached Octobers News letter for the St Martins, Hinton and Lower Bullingham area of Hereford.

OctoberFinal.pdf

Come along and see some of our stalls. Doors open at 10 am for buyers. Hope to see you there.

Well I will be the first to put up my hand and say that BB have done a fantastic job of clearing the overgrown bushes in Glastonbury Close once and for all.

I spoke with the guys doing the work just before 8am on Friday morning and after a chat they agreed that just a trim was obviously not going to be enough and if you going to do a job at least do it right! This teams whole attitude was spot on to be fair and now we can see around the corner again. 

I believe in giving credit where credit is due and to be honest I cannot fault these guy's, 100% better than it has been for many years. Thanks must also go to CVP for taking my complaint to BB and getting this job listed.

Well done everyone!

Dear Councillors and Parish Clerks,

Good afternoon 

Please see below an update on work carried out this week in the locality:

Belmont Rural

• Litter Picking : Northolme Road
• Vegetation - Cut Back Hedges: Stanbrook Road
• Hedges/shrubs adjacent to footpath: Northolme Road
• cut back hedges: St Martins Street

Hinton and Hunderton

• Foot way patching 55sq Metre
• Remove dangers concrete light Colom: Charles Witts Avenue

Tupsley

• pot hole : Lichfield Avenue

Some of the matters I have been involved with this week include  :

• Carried out driven statutory inspections
• Enquiries around the locality
• Drop Crossing  application
• Redhill walked inspections
• Parish walk  

If you have anything for me to look at the best ways are to email me or use the council web site addresses below and that will create an enquiry for me to go and investigate.  This means you can plot the issue on the map in the right place.  

Herefordshire Council website is the one-stop-shop for up to date information

Maps and timetables for grass cutting and pot holes are now available on the Council’s website.

Grass Cutting

Potholes

Public Rights of Way

Please feel free to ring or email me at any time and I will be happy to help. Have a lovely weekend.

Many thanks 

Matthew Heeley 

Matthew Heeley

Locality Steward Hereford City South| Balfour Beatty | Services | Living Places

I have just read this article in the HT.

Two of the Country Park Supporters (CPS) volunteers alongside one of the new signs

Photo courtesy Hereford Times

BELMONT Haywood Country Park, bordering the city on the edge of Newton Farm, now has a real presence thanks to a grant from Herefordshire Housing Limited (HHL).

 

Erected in late September by Country Park Supporters (CPS), the park has three signs showing people they are entering the 11 acre site. One points the way from the car park off Waterfield Road, Newton Farm, one is situated on the brow of the hill at Newton Meadows and one is sited off Sycamore/Cedar Avenue by the ancient oak tree below the children's play area and the Belmont Pools.

 

The oak signs, supplied by Herefordshire based Walford Timber Ltd, will now put the park firmly on the map for those people living in the South Wye area and beyond.

 

Phil Edwards, chairman of the CPS said, "The park is now looking good thanks to the work the CPS volunteers do with equipment bought from previous grants, and we have been very lucky again in getting funding from HHL to help promote the park with these signs. A small group of our volunteers worked hard installing the signs so that the park can be identified as the lovely place it is.

 

The signs help give the park 'status' that will encourage people to visit it for enjoyment such as walking, cycling and ball games - as well as helping to promote health and wellbeing by being in the fresh air surrounded by nature. Such an amenity should be celebrated and used by as many people as possible - it has something for people of all ages and abilities and a perfect place for a picnic. People can now see that Newton Farm is not 'just a housing estate' but a community surrounded by beautiful open spaces."

   

The CPS won second place in the Hereford City Council Community Achievement Awards competition in May, plus first place in the Hereford in Bloom (HiB) Community Open Space Project. An oak tree awarded as the prize by the HiB Group will be planted by volunteers on receipt of the tree in October.

 

CPS is always looking for volunteers and funding to help to keep the park tidy. Anyone wishing to join the volunteer group or donate funds should contact the CPS secretary, Bobbie Edwards - 01432 350688/bobbieann@talktalk.net

I see the Council are running a survey on the Markets in Hereford http://newsroom.herefordshire.gov.uk/2015/september/local-views-and-new-traders-wanted-for-hereford%E2%80%99s-outdoor-markets.aspx

Rarely shop at them myself but the streets look to be quite busy whenever I visit on a Weds or a Sat.

Well I have been campaigning for a 'relaxation' in the way hot food licenses have been restricted to no later than 1.30am in Hereford for a long time, but today I have been given some really really encouraging news! 

Fancy a curry after a night out in your local nightclub at 2am? Well now you may be able too...

I have had a very interesting conversation with a good friend of mine and a very reliable source  this afternoon, who informs me that the previous licensing issues with regard to hot food are being relaxed and that positive changes are a foot.

From my understanding, any existing restaurant/pub/club can now apply for a late license and providing they can prove that they will have no impact on CIZ or increase criminal activity because they are staying open later there is a good chance that permission will be granted or rather no objections will come from the police etc..

The applicant may need to apply initially for a Temporary Event Licence in the interim but if after a period of say a few months there is no significant increase in crime, there should be no real reason for the council or police to challenge their application.

I have never understood why some of these food establishments have been prevented from still offering a home delivery service after 1.30 but that's by the by now.

So if you or anyone you knows has a take away, restaurant, pub or club get them to apply for a late licence if they so desire and lets see whats happens.

It would be interesting to see what happens if McDonalds in town re-apply now.

As of today it is unlawful to smoke in a car with anyone under the age of 18 present. 

https://youtu.be/5jB9zSTlvwY