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Costa Coffee, I the Pavilion, The Old Market, Garrick Lane - Current rateable value £71,000 and pay £34,009 you need to sell 23 cups a day at £3.00. Starbucks, 62 Commercial Road - Current rateable value £53,000. £25,387 to pay. A revaluation of rateable values usually takes place every five years. The last was on 1 April 2010 and was based on the valuation date of 1 April 2008. From 1 April 2017 rateable values will be based on the valuation date of 1 April 2015. You can find more information and search for a property's rateable value on the Government's business rates pages. To calculate a business rates bill, the rateable value is multiplied by the national multiplier. This is set by central government each year. For the financial year 2017/18 it is £0.479 pence in the pound. Therefore, if your rateable value is £52,000 your business rates bill would be £24,908.

Is that why the council leave the graffiti all over the city.

In the Sunday Express today: Cyclists kill or maim two pedestrians every week, according to statistics ALARMING accident statistics have shown a record number of pedestrians are being killed or seriously injured in crashes with cyclists. Over the past seven years there have been 25 pedestrians killed in accidents with bikes and another 700 seriously injured – meaning roughly two people every week are being killed or badly hurt in crashes with bikes. The Department of Transport data, which does not state who is at fault in the accidents, shows three pedestrians were killed in crashes with bikes last year and another 112 were seriously injured. Readers comment: "Why did the existing laws for drivers, which Matthew Briggs wants extending to cyclists, not stop 226 pedestrians being killed by drivers in 2016?" and Jesse Norman - Transport Minister "We already have strict laws to ensure drivers who put people’s lives at risk are punished but, given recent cases, it is only right for us to look at whether dangerous cyclists should face the same consequences" Vote winner for Jesse here in Hereford?

LIst here of Cabinet member portfolios item 12. Confirmation of Cllr Bramer responsibilities. Updated: 1 August 2017

The Herdsman signage and plantings are more tasteful than this in your face. Blunt and brutal is a fair description - one ruling for the big boys - another for the rest of us.

In the Guardian today: (extract)

Also today a parish ward election in the Hinton & Hunderton Ward. Full list here.

The talk was booked sometime ago as part of the HCS ongoing programme. However members of the HCS noted your topic on HV and thought it a good idea for me to post the details of the talk to attract those interested to hear Derek Foxton.

In The Guardian today: If he thinks it's too dangerous to cycle on the roads no wonder we see cyclists on the pavement. The main problems regarding our interactions with other members of society is a total lack of respect and awareness for one another. The "I'm alright Jack" and "What's it got do with you" approach is what typifies present British behaviour whether in cars, on bikes or on foot. It's quite nice to give way once and awhile.

In the council's land and buildings asset register March 2016, Franklin House (item 207) is listed as freehold and occupied by the council.

The Hereford Civic Society have this lecture coming up soon.

So what's happening to Franklin House?

This point was raised in Parliament by Kettering MP, Philip Hollobone in June 2010. A transcript of the debate is here. The public highways on this development existed prior to the development and were maintained by the council. So unless someone in the council agreed to anything otherwise, and it was incorporated into the development planning application, the status quo should remain.

Information here: It's Our County

Have a look at these links. Forthcoming elections Find election information for your area Parish councils and wards map

Call for action over ragwort No use changing the e in your name ragwert to hide. The NFU are after you!!

Just love these two quotes about additional funding for Herefordshire roads: All for 38.9 miles of road. Good value for money? Two deluded individuals.

Nice set of photos here: Booth Hall Hotel Details from British Listed Buildings HEREFORD SO5139NW EAST STREET 683-1/7/155 (North side) 10/06/52 Booth Hall Hotel GV II* Hotel. C18 and C19, with C15 wing, much altered, to north. MATERIALS: painted brick; hipped composite tile roof; 2 brick ridge stacks; brick stack to front. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 5-window range: C20, 6/6 and 1, 8/8, sashes, under segmental arches; parapet. Entrance to centre right: late C19, 2-leaf 4-panel door, and lattice glazed overlight, in moulded architrave under moulded hood on scrolled consoles; C20, 8/8 sash, to right; two C20, 6/6 sashes and part-glazed door, to left; segmental arches; storeyband. Left returned side: 2 early C20, 6/6 sashes to 1st and 2nd floors; similar sash and blocked opening, to ground floor; all under segmental arches; returned storeyband. Wing to right: timber-frame and plaster; plain tile roof; C20 stack to rear. INTERIOR: 1st floor hall: ceiling has cusped quatrefoil windbraces; C15 hammerbeam roof with carved spandrels and figureheads; pierced and moulded screen. Victorian Gothic screens, balcony, doors, panelling, fireplace with overmantel, leaded lights and staircase. HISTORY: The hall is thought to have been built between 1380 and 1400 and is said to be mentioned in a deed of 1392. In 1392 the building was acquired by the City by licence from the King because they had no place in which the Sessions of the Justices of Assize or of the Peace or the Pleas of the City might be held. It seems to have been used by the Mercers Company for their Guild Room from C16 until at least 1756. The basement was used as a freemen's prison. The building finally became an inn at the end of C18 or beginning of C19, and the Great Room was lost sight of in later alterations until the collapse of a chimney in 1919 revealed the presence of the carved roof. A former landlord is mentioned in Borrow's Lavengro. (Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club: 1981-: 165-170; Proceedings of the Woolhope Club: 1919-1921; RCHME). Also this website with up to date pictures:

Has somebody told the Hereford Times. They appear very quiet on this. Has Jesse had a word in their ear? I am surprised that no one has blamed Brexit yet.

There were 12 charges registered against Gelpack Industrial Ltd. 11 of these charges have been satisfied since 1989. The only one outstanding is with Bibby Financial Services Ltd (as security trustee). Seems odd that this charge was created in May and the financial problems emerged 2/3 months later.

This doesn't sound good. They have a charge against the company here. In the last ten years Bibby Financial Services Limited has deliberately destroyed thousands of good businesses - don't become one of them! Whatever you do please read the stories of former clients of Bibby Financial Services before you sign an enormous contract in some cafe or car park. After you have read them, please tell yourself: 'Beware of Bibby Financial Services'!

Amendments to original planning application re-submitted August 2017. This document gives the complete picture - Amended Design, Heritage, Community Involvement, Access & Transport Statements (33MB too big to download) The rooflines have been re-designed to soften the previous harsh appearance - slight improvement

Sorry Dippy more good news. They appear to have sold Leadon Court, Ledbury for £5,775,000 through Fisher German so plenty of spare cash. Maybe they are taking their money offshore. I wonder if they are related to this famous seafarer with local connections?

Here is their plan for the future. Specification of yacht. Note that there are 8 berths so she could take the whole cabinet with her! A snip at £287,320.

Is that to give a balanced view!