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It's owned by Sports Direct and the staff are on zero hours contracts. I wonder how many of the 'glittering guest list' did their research before taking the freebies on offer and supporting such an arrangement.

Here's the full link https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/development-control/planning-applications/details?id=163699&search=kyrle%20street and the short (managed to miss the last letter off from the original link) http://tinyurl.com/z3ubk7e

Here we have yet another attempt to destroy part of John Venn's legacy - this time the Masonic Housing Trust are applying to demolish No's 5 and 7 Kyrle Street and erect 9 residential apartments with associated car parking, cycles and refuse stores. The scale of the Model Garden street will be destroyed. The Masonic Hall is next door. This is a very mediocre scheme by local architects Hook Mason. The Heritage Statement is unreadable - badly printed - and I have asked for a better version to be put online. Kyrle Street was built by Rev John Venn in the 1880's and was known as Venn Road at that time. It was an extension of his work at the Steam Mill (now Berrows House) and the adjacent public baths (now the Masonic Hall). Rev John Venn was the vicar of St Peter's Church in Hereford and was the City's greatest benefactor, devoting his life to dispelling poverty, constructing a welfare system for the poor of Hereford through numerous projects, some of which continue to give to this day. Ten semi-detached houses were laid out along the new Venn Road, designed by architect Thomas Nicholson, (who had worked on many of Venn's projects, including the adjacent public baths as well as the original St James' Church and St Peter's Vicarage in Ledbury Road). This was to be the first model garden estate in Hereford and preceded the Garden City houses in Barr's Court Road (which have their own Conservation Area) by 30 years. The application site was one of those model cottages. Tenants were expected to use their gardens to be self sufficient and to recycle all of their waste. The two cottages at the eastern end were demolished some years ago to make way for the present car park, but all of the others remain and contribute to an open and pleasant street scene, albeit subject to too much traffic. This site is in the Central Conservation Area and demands conservation. If you would like to comment the application number is P163699/F. Direct link to the application on the Council website http://tinyurl.com/z3ubk7

Guess my invitation must be stuck in the Christmas post ...

I assume you mean 'Bishop Fields' opposite Bishop's School? From £342k To £390k. The application that Cllr Kenyon was going to use the Section 106 monies from to get rid of the traffic lights at the bottom of Folly Lane (as discussed with him on this forum)? That all went very quiet so it doesn't look like it's going to happen. What a let down. Where DOES all the Section 106 money go to? All £0.52m of it?

Well, that's very good news indeed.

Imagine the outcry if a shop said we don't sell to foreign people. Yet when the opposite happens, no one in authority will do anything about it.

Here's the link http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/14948496.Quarter_of_a_million_illegal_cigarettes_seized/ The usual level of debate follows it ...

Certain Herefordshire businesses and people are highlighted in this Daily Mail report as allegedly benefiting from LEP grants. I suspect that this is just the tip of the iceberg. The Mail has found that more than £100million has been paid to LEP board members and officials’ own businesses or projects they have a stake in. These are some of the most shocking examples... 1. ESTATE AGENT HAD OFFICES RENOVATED FOR £40K ... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4000010/Exposed-Secretive-fat-cats-carving-7bn-cash-friends-family-including-40-000-renovate-barn-155-000-Jamie-Oliver-s-charity-restaurant.html

b47 is spot on as usual - but, in response to megilleland, part of the problem for the public is that all of these public bodies have built such strong walls around themselves, getting anything changed is nigh on impossible. This can be seen with our own Council - the Cabinet are autocratic - no matter what foot soldier councillors or the general public say, they are ignored. They have set up a system which renders them completely impervious to any intervention. Sadly, most of the public are unaware, more interested in vacuous celebrities and shopping.

They'll be waiting for the press release - cheaper than real reporting.

Good to hear from you b47. Watched celebrity cycling the other night - I'd vaguely heard of Austin Healey (what were his parents thinking with that name) - never heard of the others. I think being able to cry, a lot, and fall off, a lot, meant they qualified. I doubt any of them could manage Widow Twanky.

Hmmmm, but will Councillors resist the smell of the filthy lucre on the table? Recent actions say perhaps not.

How long? The High Town bomb site is a good guide. Interesting to read in the Lions paper delivered yesterday, that the Council's excuse for not moving this along is not perhaps as they have stated.

Yes it was on here - it was a draft with numerous errors. i couldn't be bothered with it past page 6 - its just job justification for council middle mangers. Always looking forward with futile grand designs, never doing routine maintenance on significant assets - roads, for instance.

The last master plan the Council spent several million pounds putting together - ESG - was a 20 year plan that was abandoned after 6 years or so - basically once the consultants and the money men had taken their fill from the paperwork and then the OLM, so this is more of the same. ESG Civic Quarter - This lies north of Blueschool Street, directly opposite Maylord shopping centre, itself an integral part of the regeneration plans. It is envisaged a new county library will be the centrepiece, creating a major new focal point in the city, and a place where people can get information and learn new skills in a computer led age. The whole area will become a lively, active street scene, incorporating smaller shops, offices and cafes with civic buildings mostly occupying the upper floors along with new apartments. Modern, purpose-built offices will help local businesses grow and prosper. What we've actually got is no library, no lively active street scene, no nothing really, save for Blueschool House soon to be clad in red formica. Is it any wonder a lot of us are more than a little jaded by the out of touch, closed door cabinet system?

Not sure what the Local Data Company stand to make from this report, save to heap worry on those concerned with the sites they identify (remember, this is speculation by a third party), but they're on the money with this comment; Stores which are vulnerable because the town centre is already in serious decline include Blackpool, Bolton, Boston, Hereford, Mansfield, Stoke and Sunderland.

It wasn't that long ago that Mayor as was Charles Nicholls was pictured in the HT outside this vacant shop, touting its future as a Tourist Info Centre ...

I am reliably informed that Mr Socket is now finally the owner of the Butter Market.

Total commitment is a given, particularly given the high salaries involved - do we need a self-serving report to state the obvious? Oh, I forgot, this is the public sector ...

Cllr Johnsons recent statement on the recruitment farce included "The council gets through £1m a day in taxpayers money- we want someone who knows his left from his right to be in charge of that." Not one of those months above gets anywhere near £30m or £31m - Johnson IS actually in charge of that spending, yet he clearly doesn't which way is up let alone his left from his right.

It highlights previous vandalism of removing all of the chimneys and altering the roof, plus the poor quality additions to the rear - all of which mitigated against listing. Once a perfectly good building falls into the hands of the Council, you can guarantee they will well and truly mess it up with their shoddy and lazy attitude to property management - and that includes the County's biggest asset - our highways.

STOR is Short Term Operating Reserve - it would seem the National Grid are inviting tenders to supply electricity via these sites, so it would appear that these applications are entirely speculative by private companies - presumably the land owners expect some reward should they come to fruition, as no doubt does Mr Poole. I hope the architects have been paid for all this work! The lack of technical supporting data is a give-away - I don't understand why this application has been accepted in this form. http://www2.nationalgrid.com/uk/services/balancing-services/reserve-services/short-term-operating-reserve/

Well, that is bizarre. A full application, yet all the drawings are marked 'illustrative only' and all are marked by the Council as 'superseded' with nothing in their place. So what are they determining?

it's not an empty plot! It's presently a double garage serving the house to the left. I've no issue with contemporary design, but this is just too dominant and overpowers the house and garden to the right. The bricks should be red rather than drab grey and the top floor needs to be much lighter in appearance.