greenknight Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Well hello...it's been a while but I'm liking the revamp. Been away with work and doing a bit of my own rebuilding and I guess that brings me to the topic in question. Does anyone know what's going on in the fields next to the Barrett new development and opposite the road that leads out from the old Herefordshire Nature Trust building ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 2 hours ago, greenknight said: Well hello...it's been a while but I'm liking the revamp. Been away with work and doing a bit of my own rebuilding and I guess that brings me to the topic in question. Does anyone know what's going on in the fields next to the Barrett new development and opposite the road that leads out from the old Herefordshire Nature Trust building ? We used to play in there as kids & knew it as the old caravan site for some odd reason. The last I saw was that someone had turned parts of it into a race track for bikes/motorcyles but that was a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Just had a walk down and it looks like they are building a road possibly something to do with the new housing that's been built off Hampton Dean road.theu are using the site next to hereford nature trust for storage and have built a temp road into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 Thanks Ragwert It's not part of the new development and I would be surprised if it's housing because that field floods regularly as it did this year even with a relatively short wet period of thaw from the snow. Surely would have come to the attention of our eyes and ears in planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODT Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 I think you'll find it's a feeder road for all the HGVs going to and from the biodigester at Court Farm in Hampton Bishop. The HGVs will be able to avoid Hampton dene. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted September 28, 2018 Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 45 minutes ago, ODT said: I think you'll find it's a feeder road for all the HGVs going to and from the biodigester at Court Farm in Hampton Bishop. The HGVs will be able to avoid Hampton dene. Beat me to it. Reading up about this biodigester site it looks to have been built twice the size it should have been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Seems unlikely that such a large scheme on such a sensitive site can start without any checks and balances from the controlling authorities, not the least planning permission. I recall a large strawberry grower building a similar new road to serve a new caravan shanty town the size of Kington on the edge of Leominster, all without planning permission, which then took several years, and a lot of our money, to get removed through legislation (and the road remains, albeit through not such a sensitive site). The Council need to jump on this immediately - I'll be raising a query with the ward councillor. Edit - I see that planning permission was granted in 2015, and an application was submitted in March of this year to deal with the conditions and this is undetermined. As such, the applicant is not entitled to start work and has in fact rendered his planning permission null and void by doing so. The Planning Officer is Rebecca Jenman - I urge readers to express any concerns directly to her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODT Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 The site is being fed by 50 - 60 HGVs an hour at the moment carrying what looks like the maize type crop grown just to feed it. Thought farming was about feeding people! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 Some of this maize crop goes into the digester and some I think is made into forage for cattle over the winter. Farming is now very high tech and is not easy to keep up with all the different methods used nowadays. As an aside remember before you start farmer bashing to thank a farmer every time you drink a cup of something and eat something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted September 29, 2018 Report Share Posted September 29, 2018 On 28/09/2018 at 08:06, greenknight said: Well hello...it's been a while but I'm liking the revamp. Been away with work and doing a bit of my own rebuilding and I guess that brings me to the topic in question. Does anyone know what's going on in the fields next to the Barrett new development and opposite the road that leads out from the old Herefordshire Nature Trust building ? Good to see you back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Thanks Ragwert It's not part of the new development and I would be surprised if it's housing because that field floods regularly as it did this year even with a relatively short wet period of thaw from the snow. Surely would have come to the attention of our eyes and ears in planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Thanks very much for the replies. Was surprised about their point of access because it floods there regularly in the winter. Sure they will take steps to prevent this but the water will only find somewhere else to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 14 hours ago, Alex said: Good to see you back. Thanks Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted September 30, 2018 Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 TWG I found the PA for March 2015 but what is the PA No for the one submitted in March please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twowheelsgood Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 P180927/XA2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 This has received fairly extensive coverage in the HT this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 3 hours ago, Denise Lloyd said: This has received fairly extensive coverage in the HT this morning Ptffff....hereford times coming here nicking our stories. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 We are the unpaid reporters but at least it serves the purpose of getting certain activities out in the open! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Thanks Ragwert It's not part of the new development and I would be surprised if it's housing because that field floods regularly as it did this year even with a relatively short wet period of thaw from the snow. Surely would have come to the attention of our eyes and ears in planning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 I think you need to look at the scale of this..is this farmer expecting to feed this thing with product from outside the county because the local impact is going to be significant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denise Lloyd Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 No it goes into the Anoeribic oops spelling Digester Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 Court Farm is discretely tucked away at the back of Hampton Bishop. I know you should never judge a book by its cover but the dominant stone and large wrought iron gated entrance suggest that this is no small holding. The heavy ground work machinery and trucks must be gaining access off the Mordiford to Bartestree road as there is still no access onto Ledbury road and I can't see a way onto land through the narrow lanes in Hampton Bishop or the road from said village into Hereford. The developing access road must be at least a mile long so one would think that the planned returns for this type of investment are there in perhaps many different forms. I see there was an application back in 2010 and it makes an interesting read. As for this road evolving later into something else ...I couldn't possibly comment but will have a chat with my brief because I purchased a house near here and it did not come up in any of the searches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODT Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 ....................so where do you think the groundwork vehicles are gaining access? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODT Posted October 4, 2018 Report Share Posted October 4, 2018 The original application (I think) stated there would be no significant impact on traffic. Yeh, right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted October 5, 2018 Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 13 hours ago, ODT said: The original application (I think) stated there would be no significant impact on traffic. Yeh, right! I can see a roundabout going in and speed limit reduced.You cannot have hgv's pulling out of there with a 60mph speed limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 14 hours ago, ODT said: ....................so where do you think the groundwork vehicles are gaining access? I'm struggling to see other than perhaps somewhere on the Hereford to Mordiford Road. One Boundary is the Ledbury Road and another is the Lugg itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 25 minutes ago, ragwert said: I can see a roundabout going in and speed limit reduced.You cannot have hgv's pulling out of there with a 60mph speed limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted October 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2018 Not wrong Ragwert but can you already feel the frustration... I can see an extension of the 30mph city limit which will absorb the Lugg straight and in doing so merge into the limits of both Luggwardine and Bartestree. I've used that road at 5/6 am in the morning heading East and its getting busier and trade guys in particular are having to leave earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragwert Posted June 23, 2019 Report Share Posted June 23, 2019 Work on the access road has stopped & i'm fairly certain when driving past that all machinery and storage units have been removed. From the parcel of land opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atm63 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 We did some work for the farmer a few years ago, not a liked man / family. I believe they are taking their chances and playing games with the system . Maybe it has stopped altogether . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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