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Staggering - I wonder how many Councillors are aware of or want to know this? The contract is £20m a year - the additional £18.5m is one years worth of 'extras' - which is how contractors make their profit. Go in at cost, pile on the extras. This is how we end up in a £40m court case with Amey - make no mistake, the same thing will happen again with BB, assuming Herefordshire hasn't gone bust before then.

Any change to the approved layout has to be referred back to Planning, prior to it being done. Glenda, just moaning about it won't change anything, as you must know - if there are things that are not right then contact Planning enforcement and the HSE. Building Control are not Planning (and I'm surprised to learn that HHL are using private Inspectors) and have no interest in any planning issues. I doubt they have an HSE officer on site - they will/must have a CDM manager (construction design and management), who should be pulling them up on health and safety issues.

I am advised that FC have now been asked by Planning to submit a retrospective planning application.

Glenda, HHL have no liability. Planning enforcement have the power to stop work on site if conditions are not being complied with and creating a serious hazard - as do, in addition, the HSE. As I said, someone needs to submit a complaint to either to trigger action. If contractors are under threat of the site being closed down, they will sort it out, because, bottom line, it will cost them otherwise.

It is a floristry school and workshop as well as a shop.

I signed up to their newsletter email list - just had the first one with a summary of the latest articles and news with links to click on - can't be bad. I'd like an RSS feed (which would do what you ask) but these seem to be falling out of favour for some reason.

Road sweepers after the event are not the answer - its an easy cop out by contractors, and Denise is right that mud should not be transmitted onto the highway, and that includes pavements. There should be wheel washers on the site - this is standard practice and they are readily available. Likewise contractors vehicle parking is controlled by the planning permission with demarcated areas. This is a planning enforcement issue, as well as a public safety one - Glenda, I would suggest that you are well placed to report this to planning enforcement, and a phone call to the Police wouldn't go amiss either. Lets not forget someone was killed on the Abergavenny road a few years ago after skidding their car on mud left on the road by a farmer.

Indeed, but t'was ever thus with public works, and that includes fees for those endless consultants reports - no one in charge is too fussed just as long as they can tick the box - and those who should be asking the questions - councillors I'm looking at you - either don't want to rock the boat, or aren't intelligent enough to realise or, more often than not, completely oblivious. If they were asked to pay £100k for concreting their own yard, their response may be rather more animated. I realise Herefordshire Housing aren't the Council, but ...

In the spirit of Christmas, I will wait until the New Year and then follow up my original complaint to Planning Enforcement with something a little stronger. I could even have a moan about the 'A' boards they've put out on the pavement and which present a hazard to the visually impaired and less able - charity begins at home?

The Council have demonstrated time and again that you can!

Still waiting for a response ...

Was the Christmas holiday period not expected this year then?

£250 per advert I believe.

Only Herefordshire Council would house a public consultation in Santa's Grotto (in the Buttermarket) … dear, oh dear.

He didn't get away with it - Hereford Times reported that he gave a false name and address and drove off, but later thought better of it. For failing to stop after an accident, Greenow was given a £300 fine and eight penalty points were put on his driving licence. For driving without due care and attention he was fined £200 and his licence was endorsed. Prosecution costs and a victim surcharge took the total Greenow must pay to £575. Hereford Conservative Association said that there was "no question" of withdrawing Greenow's membership over a motoring offence. He was subsequently re-elected. I din't vote for them.

Given that Historic England list this site on the 'Heritage at risk' register, stating that its condition is 'Very bad', its vulnerability 'High' and its trend 'Deteriorating', it would seem the Council duck out of the responsibility for rectifying this for the next 25 years. Let's hope the Lads Club are aware of what they are taking on.

As part of the great family silver sell off/southern link slush fund, it seems that Widemarsh Common is next - public notice in this weeks HT - www.herefordshire.gov.uk/media/3892271/widemarsh_common.pdf The order is as clear as, which is no doubt is intended, but whatever it is, it does encompass the whole common.

The Council spend 10 years and many, many millions of pounds preparing a new Core Strategy which will govern all development for the next 20 years. Yet, just 6 weeks after adopting it, councillors choose to ignore the whole thing and approve this. Quite extraordinary and very worrying. We've seen it before and no doubt will see it again.

It's 1 x 5 bedroomed property, not 5 properties! It's badly worded.

Well, yes, and errr, no. These 'packages' actually form part of the LTP consultation draft proposals along with others such as the South Wye Transport Package and the Hereford Transport Package (western bypass by 2027 anyone?). There is no mention AT ALL in the LTP how all the grand schemes are to be funded. Overnight, we could fix SCOOT for next to nothing and turn off some of the lights, at least part time and see a good deal of the problems reduce if not go away - but consultants wouldn't get much of a fee for that would they? Allegedly £1.1m in fees so far on the shambolic SLR application ...

There are large display boards up in the Butter Market. VERY confusingly, there are actually three different paper questionnaires available to complete - each has the SAME cover, each has the SAME headline - 'High Town Public Realm Improvement Consultation'. Look VERY closely and you will see they are different - there is; High Town survey pack Parking Review survey pack High Town traders survey pack The consultation website hereford2020.com has been broken for a week. When it was accessible, the plans were such low resolution they were illegible. I asked for higher resolution copies with the predictable nil response. Hard to say whether this is rank incompetence or deliberate obfuscation by our highly paid consultants.

This application was prepared and submitted three months before the decision to sell - was it a done deal perhaps? Yes, there are many agents in the County more than capable of doing this work - whether they want to work for the Council is another matter!

Much better colour - looks like he's painting the holly the same colour. Usual pitiful standard of workmanship - not his pavement so why bother.

No planning permission for that sign, nor the hanging banners to the left of the picture. Reported to Planning Enforcement.

I have had no response to my complaint to Planning Enforcement on Monday.