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In which case a Secretary of State will have to say so.

Planning meetings scheduled for: Wednesday 4th June 2014 Wednesday 25th June 2014 Wednesday 16th July 2014 Wednesday 6th August 2014 Wednesday 27th August 2014

Planning meetings scheduled for: Wednesday 4th June 2014 Wednesday 25th June 2014 Wednesday 16th July 2014 Wednesday 6th August 2014 Wednesday 27th August 2014

Here are the rateable values for High Town Shops: You would be handing over roughly 50% of the rateable value to government coffers. Do a search to find out which shop pays the rateable value ie Marks & Spencer 30/34 High Town

Colin can we merge this with Saving Working Boys Home update or Fire Station Public meeting and have all the comment in one place

Yes, bringing an industrial estate into the heart of the city and conservation area.

BBC Birmingham Local Radio - 14 May 2014 By Michele Paduano - BBC Midlands health correspondent And who is going to be paying this fine - surley not the rate/taxpayer? Why not just sack the managers responsible for running this sort of target. I am sure the staff on the front line are doing the best they can with all the cuts. I see they have set up such a body in Herefordshire. From their frequent questions: CCGs have taken on many of the key functions of the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) - the commissioning or purchasing function. Locally it was known as the Herefordshire Primary Care Trust. And what are they doing now? Shuffling the chairs around again or leaving for pastures new.

Have just returned from the consultation. I was the only person there and there were four HWFR personnel in attendance, although someone else was just arriving as I left. There are two sets of plans on display both identical. HWFR are adamant that the Bath Street site is the only option available to them to satisfy their criteria. The main criteria is, the station has to be located within the high risk area they have displayed at this consultation. This area is approximately as shown below: and sited close to their retained firemen - 15 in total. They insist that they have looked at the Link Road, but they say this is liable to flooding. Rotherwas is outside the risk area. That basically is was what their scheme is built around. I raised the conservation area issue. I said that if the link road floods and they can't get out what about the housing proposed in this area! I asked what their position would be if they were refused planning permission. No Comment. The point of this consultation is only about the design of the station. They expect to put in a planning application in July. The form to send in your comments about the design of the station.

I shall be going down later this afternoon to see what they have got to say.

Business Improvement Districts Standard Note: SN/PC/04591 Last updated: 9 September 2013 Author: Mark Sandford Section Parliament & Constitution Centre Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are partnerships between local authorities and local businesses which are intended to provide additional services or improvements to a specified area. A BID must be agreed by ballot and is funded in whole or in part by a levy additional to the non-domestic rates. This standard note sets out the working of Business Improvements Districts in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It provides details on how BIDs may be constituted, with reference to key figures. Read more here:

LOCAL AUTHORITIES (MEMBERS’ ALLOWANCES) (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2003 It seems that you have to pay a few people a lot of money to tell us that we can't get the grass cut!

This item under Hereford Council News 13th May 2014.

You can check the position of these fire stations on Google Maps. To see H&W fire stations and others around the UK in Street View go to Google Maps and in the search bar type in fire stations. Hit search button and zoom into map or in the panel below click on list all results. Open map to full view and click on fire station of your choice. Some are not shown ie Bromyard, but you can get the post code from the link below and paste it into search window. Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service has 27 Fire Stations strategically located across the two counties. Find a Station... The Service has five wholetime Stations based in the cities of Hereford and Worcester and the three towns of Kidderminster, Bromsgrove and Redditch. It also operates three day-crewed Stations in the Worcestershire towns of Malvern, Droitwich and Evesham The remaining Stations all operate the retained duty system, and are utilised mainly in Herefordshire, with 12 out of the 19 Retained Stations located there. North District: Bewdley | Stourport South District: Broadway | Pebworth | Pershore | Tenbury Wells | Upton upon Severn West District: Bromyard | Eardisley | Ewyas Harold | Fownhope | Kingsland | Kington | Ledbury | Leintwardine | Leominster | Peterchurch | Ross-on-Wye | Whitchurch

Announced 12th May 2014 - Herefordshire Council This council is trying very hard to get people to abandon their cars. Not that I would want to cycle up Hafod Road

Richard Hadley stood as "A Positive Choice For Ledbury" candidate in a Ledbury Town Council election early this year and won with 48% of the vote. His blog has some salient points concerning the safeguarding of the town centre and his views on The Marches LEP and Hereford Council are quite clear. His manifesto is also well worth a read. Maybe some of our councillors can see where they are going wrong.

More historical notes: 'The Hereford and District Working Boys' Home and Certified Industrial School, Bath street, Hereford, was established in 1874 by a committee of gentlemen called together by Arthur G Levason esq. of Hereford, who is chairman, and with Mr Peyton G. Levason, joint hon. secretary; the work was commenced in a small house in Commercial road, opened by the Lord Bishop of the diocese on April 29 of that year: the present building in Bath street, holding 125 boys, is now (1913) full and maintains a full average yearly number; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Atlay, June 14th 1876 and the premises were opened 1 Feb. 1877, and a wing, consisting of an infirmary, workshops and schoolroom, was added, the foundation stone being laid by Mrs. A. G. Levason, Aug 9th 1886; there is an assembly room called the "Meadows" Memorial, Mrs Meadows, of Aylestone hill, having presented the sum of £1,000 to the Home in 1895. The objects of the institution are to receive orphans and other voluntary cases of boys from 9 to 14 years of age in a state of destitution, or growing up uncared for, under evil influences; they are clothed, fed, taught and employment is afterwards found for them; the school is certified as an industrial school, and the boys, when not engaged in other duties, are employed in farming, gardening, shoe making, cutting firewood, basket making and cane working; Mr & Mrs Edwin Horth, superintendent and matron.' Also a list of records and documents of Hereford Society for Aiding the Industrious. Interesting to note that some items marked closed have a 100 Year Access Restriction - maybe hiding dodgy deals! Obviously someone has read them and made this decision to redact them - surely not the council?

I have sent an email to the Chairman of SAVE (West MIdlands) alerting him to what is going on in Hereford and and linking him to this topic. I will post his reply. Remember the Fire Station consultation tomorrow - I will get down there to make my views known. Wednesday 14th May at the rear of Hereford Fire Station, St Owen Street, Hereford HR1 2JW from 2pm to 8pm. Access venue from Daws Road and follow signs.

Got my links mixed up. Link to plans here:

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 24th April 2014 P140862/FH - P Rear extension at 14 Redbrook Close, Hereford P141045/F P141046/A - AC Demolition of single storey entrance and erection of two storey extension. 2 no. fascia signs at Hereford Sixth Form College, Folly Lane, Hereford 8th May 2014 P141141/L – AC P L SL Partial demolition and reinstatement of north elevation and works to make good existing elevations, Old Market Inn, New Market Street, Hereford P140843/F - AC Change of use and conversion of garage to provide single storey 1 bed accommodation, Garage at, 52 Bodenham Road, 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)

Introduction: A SAVE Guide to running your own campaign to save an historic building I thought it would be useful to print out the whole section.

Interesting letter (4th March 2014) by Jesse Norman. Seems to make sense concerning a by pass. Marches_LEP_Letter_to_Graham_Wynn_040314.pdf

The Federation of Small Businesses 17th December 2013 Hereford City Business Improvement District latest £40,000 grant awarded to Hereford to appoint BID Manager and cover preliminary work leading to the successful creation of a City Centre BID by December 2014.

Some background.

It will be useful to have information on this scheme here. The exact boundaries of the BID area in Hereford are being refined as a part of the consultation process. All streets in the shaded area of the map are being considered.

As a result of my experience in the OLM it endorses my view that you should support independent businesses if Hereford is to have any character and identity. You need to see the wider issues.