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£2.5m is peanuts in the construction world - they've spent more than that on carpets and dishwashers for the Shire Hall and much more than that at Plough Lane on goodness knows what. The approach to High Town from Offa Street up to the Old House is a disgraceful entrance to High Town - that was not done when High Town was done, nor was Commercial Road - they both still suffer from the previous poor refurbishment. 'working with private landlords ' - that'll be the burnt out shell they've done nothing about for several years then.

Aye. And I hate pickle. But love tea.

The sticker, with no house number supplied with mine - write your own - failed to stick to many bins - certainly mine peeled off immediately.

Good example of not jumping to conclusions and posting mis-leading thread titles.

Easy - use an ad blocker - I've never seen any of the horrors pictured above. Less data downloaded and pages load much faster as well. Ubique, assuming you're using Safari (or Chrome) on your iPad, install AdBlok https://getadblock.com Under Safari in the menu bar, click on Safari Extensions and follow your nose from there.

Agreed. Use ' ignore posts by' and you are spared his nonsense - I added that name a while ago.

This is deplorable. It seems to me a lot of 'managers' are talking to each other but little or nothing is being achieved on the ground - 'twas ever thus in public service, but we are repeatedly told we have to pay serious salaries to get the best people for the job, which we do. Time for them to do the job they are well paid for. How hard can it be to get a team down there and deep clean it?

interesting snippet to update this thread - I hear Mr Bramer is holidaying in Costa Rica until May but is available by email. He will see his ward constituents, but they will have to pay for their own flight and board costs. As Cabinet Member for Contracts and Assets, Mr B holds probably the most important post in the Cabinet, albeit seemingly remotely.

To pick up on cloudberry's comment - Herefordshire Core Strategy 2011 - 2031. Note - 2011. It is now 2015 and the CS will (probably) be adopted at some point this year. It will be 4 years late and yet no one has been brought to account for such a delay and the damage that has occurred as a result - open season for planning permissions on green field sites in particular. Has any councillor asked why the delay and what the cost has been? It was illuminating to hear someone on a radio phone-in recently, discussing what savings are still to be found within public spending. The caller was a retired local plans officer, who freely admitted he was grossly overpaid for what he did and that his department spent 6 years and £4m on a plan which was so complicated by the end that it was decided to bin it and start again. Such is the waste in public services. No doubt he is pulling down a large inflation proofed pension. Back to the Inspectors questions - Q9 - Where is the new urban village? Indeed.

Quite well it would seem.

I think you forgot to say that this alternative delivery model will create 'over 1000' jobs. Or probably not.

Dippy - indeed, as if there weren't enough signs there already. This one a tiddler at a mere 9m long x 0.8m high. You could always submit an objection but we know what the outcome will be ...

Different pots of money - different departments - different egos - same lack of joined up thinking, same box ticking, same spending money for the sake of it, just to get more next year. Repeat annually, return some years later, dig up and build something different.

HT says 'By law any surplus must be used for transport projects' - I take it that doesn't specifically mean public transport. That would exclude for instance, cycle paths, pedestrian routes - you know, the things that were promised as part of the relief road proposal at consultation stage and then deleted, along with bus lanes and more.

I think you'll find the only 'transport projects' this cabinet understand are swathes of tarmac through ancient forests.

Dippy - here is a link to the film and yes Leader Johnson asserts no one has ever complained to him about the way the cabinet is run ... Interesting that one man and a mobile phone can produce a half decent film, yet the council claim they are still in the feasibility stage of assessing if broadcasting can be done, no doubt paying many £000's in the process. Can you spot which councillors are playing candy crush on their council funded iPads?

Got mine - it’s a lovely piece of A3 card, beautifully printed on both sides, urging me to choose how i move and assuring me it was funded by the Dept for Transport. My very own personal travel planner. It even has a hole punched in it to hang it on a rusty nail. Lets see, the Admag has a circulation of about 48000, x say 10p for calendar each = £4800. Lets see what b47's contact says is the real cost. Sorry, dippy - no pictures, no patricia, no olm, just blandsville. Nothing is more reliable than the council's ability to waste our money.

Madness. Who printed it? A local business? When Amey were in charge of printing calendars, local printers who had worked for the council for years were suddenly dumped, causing some considerable hardship, in favour of others from far away who obviously had an advantageous relationship with them. I've not received mine yet - if and when I do I shall be complaining, after tossing it into the recycling bin.

… and health, for which we have to pay.

Ok, thanks. But if I have a filter that says 'show new content' why does it list 20 greyed topics that don't have any new content? As I said, I don't think it works as it should, but it's fine, I can live with it!

Colin, some of that last post has gone missing! I use the 'mark community read' but this doesn't stop all the topic showing when I next visit (or even refresh) - a bug/conflict perhaps between this function and 'show new content'.

Is there any way to block topics from showing? I have a 'show new content' filter which is fine, but there a couple of topics that I have no interest in that keep showing. It would be nice (for me) just not to have to see them. Also, is there a way to 'mark all topics read'?

Sent back to Cabinet - so what does that mean? They were the ones that arrived at this mess first time round -are they to be allowed another go at it? The independent report in Supplement 1 says 'PB route selection exercise is so poor that it has no credibility, so there can be no confidence that the preferred route is indeed the best route'. PB being the Council's Consultant's Parsons Brinckerhoff, who just happen to be owned by Balfour Beatty (or at least they were until a couple of months ago), so an entirely unbiased view from them. PB were sold to raise cash for the ailing BB, whose shares have been in free fall as senior staff/directors/CE's abandon ship. Ridiculous that councillors were only given a few days to read and consider 250+ pages of information and that some of the data wasn't even available today, requiring an adjournment for an hour whilst it was found. Why the obscene haste to push this through - is someone's pension pot riding on it?

Work doesn't start until Sunday - todays jams more likely 'Black Friday' stupid shopping hysteria.

It needs a couple of flat bed Transits equipped with brooms and shovels cruising the streets picking up and clearing up dumped bags - with a strongly worded letter through the nearest door of each. Too many desk jockeys pushing the blame from desk to desk and not enough feet on the ground dealing with the 'early stages of this transition period', as it was described to me by a council officer recently.