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Here here. The missus spends more than £10 on a pair of knickers? What a woman!!

Assuming that is what they will be selling and you must buy from there, then yes. Other breakfast burger joints are available however, which further underlines the nonsense of it all. I prefer a nice bowl of muesli ...

It’s a box ticking exercise - the planning application has to have a 'Statement of Community Involvement', so the applicant holds a very short public meeting, displaying the proposals, for as short a period as possible, in a difficult to access location with no parking. Public consulted - highlight vague feel good statements such as 'providing exciting development opportunities for youth in the city' - comments collated - statement to say they've been considered - box ticked - job done. I'll wager the planning application will be submitted within a couple of weeks.

The planning permission that has been implemented is for 'change of use of ground floor restaurant to food take away ...' There is a condition which restricts the sale of hot food between 1.30am and 12 noon to protect the residential amenity of nearby residents. However, the applicant has subsequently stated there is no intention to open as a takeaway, so who knows what is happening.

Their website is here http://www.hereforhereford.co.uk An extremely intelligent and erudite bunch who have consistently shown the Council's approach to theCore Strategy, bypass et al to be deeply flawed and worse.

There are 1000 spaces if you factor in Garrick House car park as well, and don't forget this is 24/7 as well. The council have been boasting about £1m+ pa income from this car parking to deflect opinion from the £30-60m they have had to pay for this development (or, rather, we have had to pay, at the expense of every other service), yet people don't seem to connect the two.

'For an hour of free parking spend £20 or more in Waitrose' it says on the new website. That’s about the only concession. How that’s going to work I've no idea. I can imagine there will be some sort of friction between the developers and stanhope about these charges - they're going to deter shoppers without a doubt. Typically myopic council thinking - grab the money and sod the consequences. http://www.oldmarkethereford.co.uk/neighbourhood What about some innovation? Free electric shuttle bus between the station and the OLM for instance. Concessions for cycling as they do for the Eden project.

Planning will ask for pre-application forms and a fee and then make purchasers wait 4-6 weeks for a reply ...

It’s a great initiative - like so many other things, small and not so small items just not done over a number of years have left the city looking increasingly shabby. I think the money megilleland is referring to is the 20% profit going into private pockets.

It is a service yard for goods deliveries - there is a second one off Newmarket Street. The Edgar St one will have a very narrow slip road - just 2m wide (no one thought to measure the width of a lorry) and the length of one lorry, where deliveries are expected to park up whilst they open the gates or wait for a space in the yard. Alternatively the driver has to hop out, avoiding being run over and ask at the intercom for them to open the Newmarket St gates because there is nowhere for lorries to pull up here. Did someone say not very well thought out? As for exiting, it will entail pulling out across all lanes ...

Well done Jim - the hours that I and so many others have wasted sitting at these lights whilst nothing happens beggars belief, not to mention the impact on the poor souls who live on Ledbury Road. They were never needed in the first place, no one was consulted, it was one councillors ill judged stance that pushed them through, with an uproar once put in, which the council ignored. Not even MP Keetch could get them to rethink, so its about time something was done. In many respects this would be a good test at a minor junction - get rid, see the improvement and use the argument to get rid of more. Mind you, at the rate they're planting the damned things around the OLM we might never catch up! I believe a couple of years ago there was a scheme on the table to remove the lights at the end of St Owens St/Bath St junction - I discussed it with Cllr Hubbard several times and I've seen a drawing. The red light running there is insane. It could still be done - presumably there is 106 money available from the flats currently being built next to The Victory?

That page is years old - it features the former councillor Nick Vaughan - long gone I'm pleased to say. There were questions about expenses and work for a lobby firm in London without declaring it, with one of the lobby firm's principal clients being Amey. Glossed over as a clerical error ...

Any hope that these will be saved do you think?

I can't but it should be good - Angus is always good entertainment. I don't for one second think that a Design Review Panel would have made much difference to what has been delivered however. There are murmurings from within Planning for the need for a DRP - it would at least allow them abrogate yet more duties to a third party.

The Council don't build social housing (one in a long list of don't's). They will offer it to a 'preferred partner' and beaver away at a secret deal 'to preserve commercial confidentiality'. They still refuse to disclose any information about the Merton Meadows housing which may, or may not, be developed by Sanctuary at some point. The Council say no deal has been done, yet Hereford Futiles claim all manner of the opposite and Sanctuary keep a safe distance.

No loss, it was a cheap and nasty scheme which should have been kicked back to the developers to do better. Also, with them declining to provide even a temporary haul road in to the site off Plough Lane (as the previous scheme had indicated), the residents of Baggallay St would have been subjected to 18 months of heavy plant going up and down a single width road, no doubt taking out cars in the process.

Never look at the front page - it takes far too long to load. I use 'Navigation - View new content' and keep that as a bookmark. Its whole topics rather than members posts I want to block.

Is there a way to block a topic from loading? For instance, I have a link to 'new content' which takes me straight to a list of updated topics. It overcomes the very slow loading front page. However, I don't want to see again and again a thread I have no interest in eg eating after 1.30am in the morning. I'd like to just hide it - is this possible?

It's others that have to suffer the consequences of what you say you should be mindful of.

I have to agree with Aylestone Voice. I don't agree with Mr Bramer's politics or his handling of the first station debacle, but I really don't think we should be descending to a personal abusive level - not the least because there are laws of libel.

The OLM is private - why should there be? The council could have insisted on them as part of the deal but … I'm sure Waitrose do a nicer class of toilet.

'Cabinet councillor defends fire station land swap deal' - link here - http://tinyurl.com/oegsztr 'Defending the deal, Cllr Bramer said that as the council continued to consolidate its locations to cut costs it was “likely†that further buildings would be sold or transferred.' Presumably ignoring public opinion in the process.

Seems to be deathly quiet in town today - Bath St deserted - everyone is staying away after yesterday perhaps.

Rudhall Manor just east of Ross. Search for housing development in the grounds of Caradoc Court at Sellack to get a flavour of his modus operandi. How did we get here? One person, not local, doesn’t live locally, has the final say, without debate, without the input of the ward councillor, to sweep away our heritage, given by the City's greatest benefactor for the benefit of local people. This isn't democracy by any stretch. This cabinet system is without doubt the worst thing ever to happen to this county - we'd have been better off staying with Worcestershire. At least there are checks and balances in the two tier county system. Now we just have the crony system. I note the HT report doesn't say what is to happen to the fire station and who is to pay for its demise.

East St is signed 'access only'. Periodically the police stop vehicles entering East St to ask what they are accessing and them send them on their way down Broad St ...