A planning application from Premier Inn for a 65 room Hotel in Blackfriars Street has been submitted.

A previous application for retail and flats on what was known as the Old Market Gateway looks to have been
shelved.

 

https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200142/planning_services/planning_application_search/details?id=174776&search=blackfriars%20street

Bovis Homes have submitted outline planning permission with all matters reserved (save access) for the erection of up to 185 residential dwellings (use class C3) with associated parking, access roads, public open space, landscaping, sustainable urban drainage, and associated works at land south of Leadon Way Ledbury.

Planning Application P174745/O

Police sealed off bridge at Hunderton. No entry. No further information. Let’s hope the camera was of use.

I see the litter is creeping back on GWW. The problem now are the leaves. The council used to sweep the GWW with a road sweeper to clear the path and pick up broken glass pieces, but I have yet to see one this year. The leaves have turned the GWW into a slushy surface and today I helped one woman cyclist who fell off her bike when she ran off the edge of the GWW because she couldn't see the edge. Another dangerous section is the S bend under Barton Road Bridge which if you remember caused flooding because the drains were blocked.

 

If nothing is done I can see more people coming off their bikes. 

The GWW is again covered in wet leaves as reported last year providing a dangerous surface for cyclists. Again no road sweepers seen this year. Also noticed the cycle path is now beginning to be lifted by tree roots in various places and the link to Brampton Road is breaking up. Regarding litter the tractor used last week to cut back the bank at the academy end has exposed the usual quantity of litter and debris.

The ride along Blackfriars Street between the lights at the shopping centre and Widemarsh Street has to be the worst section in the city - the only smooth section to cycle is along the white line!

Do you want to get your driving test fee funded?

Herefordshire council tax expected to rise by 4.9%!

This is the maximum amount it can rise without the local authority triggering a referendum.

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You will be aware that during yesterday and today there has been a lot of Police activity around the Cathedral . Police officers in overalls with Spaniel dogs ( Search / sniffer dogs ) etc.

At 0900 today BBC Hereford and Worcester announced what was going to happen at the Cathedral , named names etc.

I added a comment to the HT article stating that BBC H and W did at 0900 announce what was happening today at the Cathedral - I mentioned no names or what was happening .

Within a few minutes that comment was deleted . Why , no secrets were given out , it was in the Public Domain.

I have now asked the HT why my comment was deleted - time will tell if I get a reply - I am sure that they check this Forum regularly .

Bus prices in Hereford is rising once again, when Yeomans took over the bus service they rose prices, now they want us to pay more and then they wonder why people do not use the bus.

at the moment from the College Green to town it is £2, I have been told that is rising to £2.20.

most of the time i will walk to town, but if i got a bit of shopping I will use the bus back, I do walk to work and back home, again now and again I will take the bus home.

I can understand why people use their cars and do not use the bus, I see buses going around with one person on it, and even iof there are a few people on there most are not paying as they get free bus passes.

To each and everyone of you. Course,,,,, what comes with it, the bloody New Years Honours List, isn't something that has anything to do with the meek, the bloody mild and those of us who've hit rock bloody bottom and contentedly remain there because we've got no obvious talent that gets us on the television, on a stage, a film set or elected into a position of authority.

You'll have to look long and hard to find the Lollypop Lady, who's stood on the road in all weathers for four bloody decades getting anything like a 'thank you very bloody much'. There'll be no honours for those who go about their daily lives leaving a trail of nothing more than good behind them whilst caring for people, showing some compassion and generally trying to do their best for their fellow man.

No such bloody luck! Instead the great, the good, the bloody ruling elite and those who've become bloody rich on the backs of us the bloody plebs of society, who've been socially engineered into sitting there night after night watching them perform and living a wealthy life way beyond our own expectations within British society. These are the bastards and the recipients of these awards as they get fatter and fatter as they become more and more celebrated for being placed on an upper rung of our social rotten ladder.

They're all there for us. They always are. Every fu.c.king night on the television. Whenever there's a global crisis these narcsestic sycophantic holier than thou takers are first up on the box telling us, who've got next to buggar all to give, give and give a bit more. The same bastards who live and operate in tax havens, avoid paying their way and keep telling us what to think, how to vote and who to 'keep in' as they fu.ck about on yet another pointless celebrity realty television programme. They are the very bloody same ones who can barely stand up straight because of the weight and burden of medals and gongs that the establishment have hung round their scrawny necks as we celebrate their birth, their life and in many cases hopefully their quick death that happily will free up a position for another pointless celebrity who just happens to be associated with their 'must have' charity that evidences just how caring and giving they are.

Bloody Nick Clegg! The bastard! Eammon Holmes, who can't keep off the television, bloody Richy Starkey who's spent most of his life living abroad so that his bank balance doesn't drop beneath fifty million quid, Darcy Bussell who's back legs have gone and who's now a fully paid up member of getting a bloody pointless celebrity to dance before our lifeless sunken eye sockets because we've become addicted to celebrity and the joy of seeing them over and over again as they skip from one programme to another showing us all just why their limited talent got them into the public psyche in the first place, into our easily pleased hearts and up the steps into bloody Buckingham Palace where they get what we are never going to get. Some bloody appreciation from the establishment and the ruling elite!

It makes me sick. I'd like to gather them all up in one place, begin filming Celebrity Survival and every day drag one of them out and shoot them because the great British public voted them out. Now that'd be entertainment! And then, at the programmes end, once the winner has been identified, then and only then, by all means give them a New Years Honour. After surviving that they'd have earned it if anything I say is worth a jot of notice.

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjJ3cqn7LnYAhVhCsAKHbqaB9UQqUMILzAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fsociety%2F2018%2Fjan%2F01%2Fover-11000-homes-have-stood-empty-for-at-least-10-years-data-shows&usg=AOvVaw2xYprDxe0dGNGzMDPyc9dv

According to new research over 10000 homes have stood empty for at least 10 years in this country.

Now I am not as travelled as many of the posters on HV but are there many empty homes in Herefordshire?

Went by this place today. New signage. Seems to have some new windows out the back. Same or similar staff working by the back door. Unlikely it is open currently but I don't know for sure. Previous establishment was closed down in July 2017. It was known then as Abbey Grange Care Home. Closed down over safety concerns. 

https://www.vennslanecarehome.co.uk/

If you are looking for a low-impact and inexpensive form of exercise in a social ambience, there is line dancing at Northholme Community Centre on Monday evenings at 7.15pm. £5 a pop, pay on the day. No experience needed. No need to wear cowboy gear. Yes, it's cheesy -- but it's fun.

http://linedancingherefordleominster.weebly.com/

There is an accident on Whitecross Road Hereford, just before the junction for Sainsbury's and Aldi. There are two vehicles involved, a red Vauxhall and a white Taxi. This is causing major traffic delays.

Herefordshire Council is appealing for information about an articulated trailer that was dumped on the A49 layby at Much Birch, between Ross-on-Wye and Hereford.