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    I've had a look but won't waste my time responding - it's a non-consultation like so many others, I've no doubt the plan is already in place and ready to go. It looks the Government have handed councils a licence to print money in fines, as what few Police we have simply can't be bothered to impose any motoring law. Cue lots of cameras for automated fine collection and an assumption that you are guilty unless you can somehow prove otherwise. Having been on the receiving end of fines from a London Council for motoring offences by a car with cloned number plate of my plate, I can tell you that is next to impossible.
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    Small wheels and big potholes don't sit well together. Most of the City's roads are in a truly terrible state and the pavements are not much better. There's a degree of education required over scooters eg do you ride only on the road or only on the pavement or both? Do you have to be insured and display an ID plate etc etc. Of course, no one cares and people will do what they want to do, knowing what few Police are left aren't interested in dealing with the paperwork. Typically, the Government trials have been a shambles and have been manna for screaming Daily Mail headlines, to the extent that these scooters are already toxic in many people's minds. Anything that reduces car use has to be a good thing, and the Voi scooters highlighted in the YouTube video linked above seem to have very sophisticated software to control the behaviour of the scooter independent of the rider, but whether Hereford will turn them or any other a profit remains to be seen. Would I use one? No, I'm not against them, but I'll stick to my bike.
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    You'll be lucky to get a human before next week!
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    On the bright side, that will make it easier to take up and redo properly! Is this a utilities repair, I haven't been down there recently. BBLP should be managing this to ensure the highway is reinstated to the same standard. Therein lies the problem.
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    What on earth!! That is unbelievable. Can this be flagged with Cllr Harrington please?
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    Eight weeks - clearly not the budget solution then. I hope they've thought about the drainage - all those areas are laid to fall to drains. You would hope so, but I see so many resurfaced roads with standing water on them because the falls are incorrect, it clearly isn't always the case ...
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    The ward councillor should be sorting this out - where is she? It needs her to pull together the parties that are ignoring it and ensure that they are all aware of their responsibilities. I note that it has been over 2 years since I commented further up this thread about the BBLP contract review - no surprise that nothing has happened and my periodic emails to my ward councillor and Cllr Harrington about this issue go unanswered.
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    It doesn't look too healthy at the base - probably a natural demise, which is sad to see, but part of nature. I really hope that it's left as it is and BBLP don't get in there with their chainsaws and do their worst. This will be a huge wildlife resource for many years to come.
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    No doubt Liz Hurley was 1 of the 36 lucky ladies, probably the first in line. Good to hear from you, it seems you survived the ordeal, or did you ...
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    Sadly, I can only agree. Trialling turning off some traffic lights would be a positive start, long promised but still not delivered.
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    Just staggering. As for the Cathedral and Wye quarter - it'll never happen, why bother, and, even if it does in some way, it'll be a piecemenal shambles a bit like ESG, and look how well that turned out even WITH a masterplan. Not to proceed has been 'considered and rejected' - this is not recommended as this will reduce investment in Hereford city centre which is not consistent with the council’s corporate policy to support the local economy and growth. Business will invest if it sees short term gain - no one is going to hang around for Herefordshire Council to deliver - their record is plain for all to see. The St Owen's Street scheme was signed off and should have started by 31 March this year. It was quietly pulled for no stated reason. Now we have to spend £20k for 'critical friend reviews' - have they completely lost the plot (that's a rhetorical question)?!
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    Miller Court in Ledbury Road is seemingly no longer required by the University in the endless game of property shuffle - there is a planning application submitted by Platinum Care Services for a change of use to a care home.
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    Hideous. Does it enhance the Conservation Area? I think not. Mind you, the state of the car park opposite doesn't do much either, but money talks, as they say.
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    This seems to have been slipped out very quietly and there's precious little information on how it will work. I believe if you already have a broadband connection, your existing analogue phone will continue to work (or it might need a small adapter). BT are pushing their own new 'digital voice' phones for home use, but as their current offerings are pretty poor compared to the likes of Panasonic, that doesn't bode too well. The pricing structure has yet to be announced - I'd be amazed if it wasn't more expensive. As ever, it is the most disadvantaged that will be hit hardest by all of this. Of course, if the internet goes down then the phone won't work to call the emergency services ...
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    The City Council working with the County Council would be a first - they've been at each others throats for 21 years now. Only now, when it suits a political argument, are we hearing about muti-million pound repair costs. Are these even realistic? What are they for and how have they been arrived at? This Council has demonstrated beyond doubt that they are incapable of managing large (or any) construction projects, so why should we believe anything they say about this one? We saw how they managed a very minor repair to the Porch of the Town Hall - scaffolded for 2 years was it? The Council seem happy to throw millions at the Shire Hall yet not at the Town Hall - perhaps because the City Council are there? No, this is a public building for the City of Hereford, built with our money for us. It must not be sold.
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    Out of interest, I had a look around - you are right, I think that branch of the NHS is fast disappearing. Kyrle St Dental Practice offered something called 'NHS Dental Prototypes – Dental Contract Reform England' - although it sits under a NHS banner it is, it seems, paid for treatment. "The practice is taking part in the NHS Dental Prototype Scheme, this is being implemented by the NHS and the Department of Health to look at new ways of providing the care you need to improve your oral health." I think the ways of providing care are well established - it’s the charging for something which I've paid into all my life - via tax and NI - and then being asked to pay again that's new.
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    Trolleywise links takes you to https://www.wanzl.com/en_GB/360-degree-service/TrolleyWise Works for me. Statistics are staggering; 520,000 abandoned shopping trolleys returned to UK supermarkets in 2017 (1,400 per day). Industry estimates actual abandoned shopping trolley numbers closer to one million per year. Cost to British business is £35m per year (more than £95,000 every day). 40% of UK shoppers do not think there is a problem with trolley theft.
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    After much perseverance by the Ward Councillor, the historic Booth Passage, an ancient right of way, has been reopened, with the gate padlocked open. This gate wasn't shown on any planning drawings, nor the artists impression shown above, and it does not have planning permission Next job is to find the light switch ...
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    Yet another example of the appalling driving that we see all the time now, as well as being drunk, drugged and having no licence, mot, tax or insurance, take your pick. It's fast becoming like the wild west, we need some Sheriffs!
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    I'm not sure that's full disclosure by the Council - where is the weekly/monthly hire cost for the scaffold itself? It's very unlikely that they bought it at the outset, that's just an erection cost (as they say). Further, those figures don't accord with those in the Hereford Times report. Given the length of time that has elapsed, I would say the Council have a duty to reassess the situation, just as long as BBLP and a certain local builder don't get involved!
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    Approval isn't automatic and certainly isn't when the buildings are listed or in a conservation area. All of the work opposite Steels needed planning permission and I've complained to the Council that the as built doesn't accord with the approved scheme, but with no response. Enforcement is now practically non-existent.
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    If only they would start delivering at least some of their last election pledges instead of plotting for the next election. Turning off traffic lights anyone?
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    Property Services and Balfour Beatty prepared a survey and scheme of repairs and applied for listed building consent last year - this was withdrawn, after the Civic Society amongst commented that it was inadequate for a building of such importance. It looks like the Council have now done the right thing and gone to one of the leading conservation practices in the Country. Let's hope the usual suspects don't get to do the actual building work.
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    I raised the issue of these yellow lines with the ward councillor - they are the wrong pattern for a conservation area. They should be the thinner (50/50/50mm pattern rather than 100/100/100mm) and paler buttercup yellow, as stipulated by all the heritage bodies. I see they made the same error in Ledbury. The response basically was that the Council isn't consulted (they don't need to be, it's good practice) and BBLP are essentially autonomous and lack expertise to deliver what could be reasonably expected. For a minimum of £20m a year, that doesn't seem acceptable in any form to me.
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    To keep it on thread, the ruling parties were voted in because people wanted to see something happening about the City's frustrating traffic problems. They said they would address it, they had the answers, lights would be turned off. They have failed to deliver. More consultants have had more money for no demonstrable benefit to the City. I do wonder if there isn't some hidden payoff for all these traffic lights - like a never ending lucrative maintenance contract for instance.
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