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Cash will disappear soon and the government will create electronic credit through a card which holds personal information about you. The ulterior motive is towards using the card as a form of ID, although your mobile phone is already doing that. Credit cards of the future: 4 exciting trends

Letter in the Hereford Journal 21st May 2014:

A few to be going on with. Many more to come across. You can spend hours going through these sites. Interesting reading.

Hereford Enterprise Zone - Skylon Park The Executive Board oversees progress on the implementation of the Masterplan, marketing, consultation, infrastructure and service delivery and sales. The Board meets monthly. Executive Board members are nominated on the basis of the expertise, relevant interest, availability and experience they can bring to the day to day running of the company’s business.

Herefordshire Business Board The role of the Herefordshire Business Board is be the advocate and voice of business in Herefordshire, through the encouragement and promotion of sustainable business development and inward investment. The Business Board was initiated by Herefordshire Council as a way of connecting with the business community in Herefordshire, to help inform proposals, plans and strategies and to provide business input into Council processes. The board has a role to represent business in Herefordshire and also represents Herefordshire within the Marches LEP, with the Chair sitting on the Marches LEP board.

"The Bulmer Foundation has demonstrated in recent years that it can influence the direction of public policy as well as delivering practical outcomes in a collaborative and very professional manner. The Foundation's influence in the development of the Herefordshire Environment Partnership; their involvement in the Safer Herefordshire Partnership and their pivotal role in facilitating the Sustainable Food Strategy, are good recent examples of this. The Council has been delighted to partner the Foundation in originating New Leaf, h.Energy week and Ecohere - creative approaches to addressing the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions in the county. These innovations are in my opinion, great examples of what can happen when a local authority and a third sector organisation work really effectively together." Geoff Hughes Director for Places & Communities, Herefordshire Council

Marches Local Enterprise Partnership The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership was launched to create the conditions for economic vitality and sustainable employment across this diverse region, globally recognised for its pioneering industrial heritage and entrepreneurial spirit.

Hereford Futures - Overview Led by the Chairman, Ted Willmott CB OBE and the Chief Executive, Jonathan Bretherton, the company has a board of highly experienced non-paid directors and a small, expert executive team. Working hand-in-hand with the council’s officers and other partners, Futures ensures that the necessary technical skills and experience are brought to bear on various challenges, including finding solutions to highly complex regeneration and physical development problems. The Leader of the Council chairs the Futures Gateway Committee, which is a forum for considering which projects will be progressed by the company. The primary purpose of the Committee is to agree workload management arrangements for individual projects and to review progress. All decision-making about Council projects is subject to the Council's governance arrangements.

I am compiling a list of organisations with links to the council, many of which appear to be duplicating the work of one another and the council and involving in many cases the same names popping up at the helm. Feel free to add any you know or have come across.

Yes Bobby it has hardly been progress for most of us. I think alot about where we are heading nowadays, after 60 odd years of being a member of society, I feel that the aim of the establishment is to exclude anyone who is not a member of their clubs and groups. I have noticed that over the years and certainly within the last two governments there is a tendancy to try to loose us behind a smokescreen of bodies, what I call organisations within organisations. These incestuous bodies can be found everywhere and most duplicate the roles of other organisations and coincidently have the same named individuals calling the shots. Our own council is a good example and I have started a topic entitled Organisations within organisations. I am sure you can add a few examples which we have come across here in Hereford Voice.

Not sure whether this was posted Agendas, meetings and minutes - Monthly calendar Calendar Events Hereford and Worcester Fire & Rescue Authority Policy & Resources Committee Date: Monday 2 June 2014 Time: 10.30 am - 12.30 pm Location: Worcester HQ Hereford and Worcester Fire & Rescue Authority Date: Monday 9 June 2014 Time: 10.30 am - 12.30 pm Location: County Hall, Worcester Herefordshire Council Planning Committee meetings Wednesday 4 June 2014 10.00 am and Wednesday 25 June 2014 10.00 am Looks like there will be a lot of scurrying around in June to make sure that they are all singing from the same song sheet.

Time to go and vote for change of direction. It will be interesting to see the outcome and the media response.

What else is in the long grass other than litter and dog faeces?

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. 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 15th May 2014 P141076/F P141077/A – AC SL Refit of retail unit including new shop front and signage at 24 High Town, Hereford P141086/FH – AC P Demolition of garage and the erection of a new single storey building. Water View, 15 Cantilupe Street, 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)

Hereford Times Wednesday 21st May 2014 in News By Bill Tanner Nice to see Bill is on this. This council ducks and dives to push it's agenda through and forced an affected individual, Mrs Srodzinski through the High Court, to protect her interest - well done to her.

Hereford Times Wednesday 21st May 2014 in News By Bill Tanner “We welcome the support,†she said. Handed on a plate more like it! And they go on about everybody cutting back while they carry on with their pipe dreams.

HEREFORDSHIRE'S STRATEGIC HOUSING LAND AVAILABILITY ASSESSMENT (SHLAA) 2011 The three sites mentioned above can be found here: Land off Faraday Road see page 215 Hereford Bus Station see page 267 County Offices, Bath Street see page 269

Got a grid reference or directions how to find them.

A UNITED EMERGENCY SERVICE 2012 GLA CONSERVATIVES GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY SHARED SERVICES AND ESTATES OPTIONS FOR THE METROPOLITAN POLICE SERVICE Slightly off topic, but gives this gives you an idea of the thinking regarding the future sharing of ancillary services, fire, police and ambulance and emanating from the Boys in Blue (GLA Conservatives)! Amazing that West Mercia Police are held up as an example and cited throughout this document. Note the driving force of these schemes are the estates departments. However nothing about demolishing existing buildings to get your way. Also Blue Light Estates This seems to be the "transformational" pattern across the whole country.

Going back in time it is amazing that there was talk of some sense in these HF documents about relocating some infrastructure into the ESG. And now we have arrived at some scheme devised behind closed doors for no stated reasons which appear to benefit the interests of a few individuals. Summary of the Masterplan 2.71 Potential occupiers of the ofï¬ce element will include the relocated Hereford Centre and modern Library for Herefordshire Council, a Police Point for West Mercia Police and ofï¬ce accommodation for a number of public and private organisations which could, if grouped together, beneï¬t considerably from shared space and facilities. 2.132 The village contains two locations identiï¬ed as being suitable for major space uses. The ï¬rst of these, north of the link road, is allocated for development of a new Divisional HQ building by West Mercia Police and could also accommodate other commercial uses. The second lies to the north and east of the football ground, a potential site for Higher Education or major ofï¬ce use. These locations for major space uses are complementary to the UDP policies for the area and are identiï¬ed to enable suitable opportunities for new and relocating users. In Hereford Futures Business Plan 2012 - 2015: 4. Public Services, Infrastructure and Facilities West Mercia Police West Mercia Police Authority (WMPA) have identified a strategic need for a new Territorial Police Headquarters (TPHQ) in Hereford, which will enable them to both meet their changing accommodation requirements, and ensure that they are able to properly respond to the anticipated policing needs of both the County, and the City. At present, they are operating from two principal locations in the city; one being the existing HQ on Bath Street, the other is temporary rented accommodation on Barton Road. For operational reasons WMPA wish to consolidate onto one site, however there is insufficient room at Bath Street for any further expansion, and they are now seeking suitable sites on which to build a new TPHQ sometime in the next 10 years. The feasibility of siting a new TPHQ on land in the ownership of WMPA, within the proposed Urban Village is being actively investigated by WMPA with the support of Futures and the Council. Futures’ role in the project will be to advise Herefordshire Council on how to secure best value and also ensure that the proposals by WPMA are compatible with the delivery of the Urban Village. Supersurgery The ‘Hereford City Primary Care Centre’ will comprise a purpose-built medical centre which will combine within a single site a number of existing city centre medical practices. The new medical centre will provide personal services that are tailored to the specific health and social care needs of individuals by giving more control to service users. This project has been an ambition of the Primary Care Trust for many years, and the development of the Urban Village provides an opportunity to realise delivery. Working in partnership with NHS Herefordshire, Hereford Futures will help to identify and promote potentially suitable sites for the new medical centre, and advise on how to secure best value. Fire Services HQ Just as with the project above, provision of a new HQ for the Fire Service has been a long held ambition. Given the condition of their existing building, the need to secure replacement accommodation has become more presing, and the Service is actively searchng for suitable sites. The company's role (Hereford Futures) will be to lead negotiations with the Service and support delivery of the new HQ if they choose to develop on one of the opportunity sites. So who has being putting a spoke in the initial plans?

The question to ask if 10 Romanians moved into a house next door to you is: 1) If a Registered Social Housing Landlord property how did they qualify to get a house over other people in a waiting list. 2) If privately rented have the rules for a house in multiple occupancy been followed 3) If they bought the house outright or got a mortgage on it then you can do nothing providing 2 above is in order and they are not allowed under the mortgage to sublet. I do not know why the media (The Guardian seems the most frightened and antagonistic) are highlighting the Romamians except to get at Nigel. There are plenty of English people who are not partically good neighbours and have a lot of anti-social behaviours. Only a few days till the polls.

Agenda Council Friday 23 May 2014 9.00 am Appendix 2 MEMBERS’ QUESTIONS TO COUNCIL – 07 MARCH 2014 Question from Councillor RI Matthews of Councillor AW Johnson, Leader of the Council Construction of a New Access Road Question 5: It is my understanding that both of our local Conservative MPs, and a large number of top businessmen together with the board members of the local Enterprise Zone support the construction of a new access road from the main A438 Hereford/Ledbury Road at Tupsley into the Rotherwas Industrial Estate. All of these people are of the view that the industrial estate will not succeed and operate to its full capacity until such a road is in place. Because of the overwhelming support for this road from such influential people, can you assure Members that their concerns will be addressed before the Local Development Framework is any further progressed? fter all, it must be remembered that your administration is without any overall majority, and therefore I suggest that it would be undemocratic were you not to give this matter your every consideration. Answer from Councillor PD Price, Cabinet Member Infrastructure Answer to question 5 I don’t share Cllr Matthews’ understanding. I am of course aware that there are a range of views on this matter, influenced by a number of factors, but would wish to focus on the evidence. Extending the road network to the east of the city in advance of a relief road which can only be delivered through a western route, would not only displace traffic to more residential areas, it would not enable the housing growth this county needs. I would also remind Cllr Matthews that the draft Core Strategy was approved by Council in July 2013 for submission; this included a relief road to the west and did not include a Rotherwas to Ledbury Road link. There is no authority to include it at this stage and further delay to debate the matter, in the absence of any new evidence to support the case for a link road in advance of a relief road, would have a significantly negative impact on the future economy of the county. Supplementary Question It would appear to me that any inspector considering our Core Strategy would be deeply concerned when he becomes aware of the views of our local MPs and others. Does the Leader agree with me that this could well be the case, and consequently result in a negative response to the Council’s proposals? Response: Councillor Johnson, Leader of the Council The Leader acknowledged the reservations people had about where the road was proposed, but reiterated that residents wanted a bypass. Council priorities included future economic development, which a bypass was an important part of. Hard evidence showed the road should go west and MPs were now looking at this evidence. It was noted that any road built going east on a flood plain would not be able to have homes included with it. Additionally any expansion of Rotherwas could not be carried out without access improvements. The Leader emphasised the importance of not missing the opportunity, which would bring with it homes and jobs for the County. However this did not preclude any future road building which might subsequently be built going east.

Agenda Council Friday 23 May 2014 9.00 am Appendix 1 PUBLIC QUESTIONS TO COUNCIL – 7 MARCH 2014 Question from Mrs Protherough, Clehonger, Herefordshire Question 6 Selling of Bath Street Site With an urgent need for sustainable housing developments in the City Centre, why does this Council feel that it can achieve best value for the local taxpayer by selling the Bath Street site to the Hereford & Worcester Fire Authority, rather than as a prime residential development site, which could include sensitive redevelopment of a building of historical significance in the City? Answer from Councillor H Bramer Cabinet Member Contracts & Assets Answer to question 6 A decision on this matter is scheduled for later in March. The council has to consider how best to use its assets in the public interest; the options for achieving best value will inform any disposal decisionto be made. The Local Development Framework, scheduled for public examination later this year, identifies a number of strategic sites which together would provide sufficient capacity tomeet projected housing need in the city. As with any site, the future use will be determined through the usual planning process, as would the impact of any development on the character and appearance of the conservation area; the building itself is not listed. Supplementary Question In its Core Strategy is proposing 2,500 houses are built in greenfield sites around Hereford City and 800 in the city centre ‘urban village’. Yesterday Nick Boles, Planning Minister, announced new planning practice guidance which emphasised the need to redevelop brownfield sites in preference to greenfield sites, protection of countryside and environment and taking account of infrastructure constraints e.g. road and sewage systems. There are as yet unconfirmed rumours of changes in Community Infrastructure Levy to encourage developers to develop brownfield sites. In view of this will the Council consider changes to its Core Strategy housing, and reconsider the practical advantages of using Bath Street site for housing which also has the environmental and social advantages of accessibility to the city centre on foot and proximity to essential services? Response: Council Price, Cabinet Member Infrastructure The Core Strategy is a live document. If something is announced from government we will look at it, but we need to take the Core Strategy forward. In response to the remainder of your question on Bath Street I would refer you to the written response provided.

Cambo. I sent an email to their West Midlands Chairman a few days ago. No reply so far. I will send a copy to Kathy Clark.

Here is a list not up to date: 3 Mobile, 24 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Ann Summers, 19 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Clinton Cards plc, 27 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB David Christopher Ltd, 29 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Fat Face, 2-3 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA Game Stores Group Ltd, 13 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA H S B C, 35 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AQ H Samuel Ltd, 23 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Hereford Confectionery Services, 15 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA High Town Hire, 4-5 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA Lloyds TSB Bank plc, 6-8 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AE Marks & Spencer plc, 30 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Monsoon, 10-11 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA Mountain Warehouse, 12 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA O2, 9 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AA Santander UK plc, 20-21 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB Vodafone Retail Ltd, 28 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB W H Smith Ltd, 25-26 High Town, HEREFORD, HR1 2AB