CPRE are compiling a countrywide map of brownfield sites suitable for development.  If when you are out and about over the next few days and spot a suitable site please could you let the CPRE know.  

Out & about this weekend? If you spot a derelict site we can add to our brownfield #WasteOfSpace map, let us know!

As you are all no doubt aware developers are currently targeting precious greenfield sites for housing developments but CPRE are certain that there are many suitable brownfield sites that should be developed before losing precious greenfields.  Once the information is gathered they will present their info to the government.   

This is super - please share

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..How the local radio have more adverts for Cheltenham, Worcester Crown Gate and Gloucester Shopping centers than our own OLM?

I actually got confused the other day, the advert said "visit the new Odeon multiscreen" ... "eat out in one of our new resturanst like Nandos, Prezzos or Zizzi".... oh a advert for the OLM I thought ... "come and visit our new shopping experience at Cheltenham" hah.

So now we have a "cookie cutter" shopping experience just like everywhere else and the local radio is advertising everyone elses more than ours.

Just came across this job advert on the council website.  Surely this isn't allowed.  We all know that Bill Wiggins used his council conservative connections in the past to wrongly block Jim Miller standing for a local election so you'd have thought the council would be very wary of appearing to favour him in advance of a general election.  Helping to recruit his campaign team is showing political bias in my opinion.  To also say that the job is to help Tory councillors in their campaigning is also using the council website inappropriately.  

So, there you go, IOC, Greens, Labour and Independents - an open goal for you.

 

Position Details

Reference:

 3470 

Closing date:

  22 Aug 2014 (Midnight) 

Salary:

 Â£ - Â£  

Hours:

The role

Campaign Manager for North Herefordshire Conservative Association

We are looking for someone to run the office in Leominster and to help support the North Herefordshire

Conservative Association Member of Parliament and County Councillors in the run up to the national and

local elections in May 2015 and beyond.

The job is part time and flexible but a minimum of 15hrs /week, competitive salary available dependant on experience.

You will need to be an efficient administrator, able to self-manage and have strong IT user skills. 

An interest in politics and political campaigning would be an advantage. Further details at www.nhca.org.uk

In the first instance, please send a CV and covering letter to: office@nhca.org.uk. 

Closing date Friday, 22nd August and interviews beginning of September 2014.

Or maybe we should all apply!

As of Monday 11th August 2014 Goodrich Grove will be close for approx 6 weeks to install the new suage drains for the new development on the Vortex site,Radford Gardens and houses by the play area in Kilvert Road.

The Hope Pole in Commercial Road closes it's doors on September 8th and re opens as BBQ and Brew on September 25th with 24 additional staff

BBQ And Brews Website

I've ripped this off and done it at my home. You'll laugh!Best Prank Call Ever by Tom Mabe - YouTube

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8

29 Jan 2009 - Uploaded by Nick Macdonald

the best and most epic prank call ever recorded! apparently MabeInAmerica was the telemarketer.

Over the next four days, Wednesday to Saturday 6 to 9 August the following roads will be closed for resurfacing work to be carried out. Charlton Ave, Masefield Ave and between 1-20 Waterfield Road.

All buses will travel to and from the Oval via Kilvert Road to access upper Newton Farm, and into Hereford City.

How humiliating for Hereford United, they can't even secure a game with Bartestree.

Read all about it

This popular programme has a section in it where the panel are asked to complete blanked out headlines in an obscure journal. Maybe someone might like to guess the blanked out bits in this local document worthy of a place on this show.

Witness Appeal For Information Following Theft From Shop In Hereford

West Mercia Police are appealing for information about a theft that occurred at Co Op Stop and Shop, Whitecross Road, Hereford.

It happened between 7.45pm and 8.05pm on Saturday 5th July 2014.

A selection of scratch cards, cigarettes and other groceries were stolen.

Officers are eager to hear from the women seen in the attached pictures, as well as anyone who witnessed the incident, in connection to their enquiries.

Information can be given by calling West Mercia Police on the non-emergency number 101 quoting incident 0699S of 5th July 2014.

Alternatively you can give information without giving your name by calling the charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or by visiting their website: www.crimestoppers-uk.org.

The Herefordshire Council have an online survey about the parking in Hereford. In my opinion, there are far too many disabled bays along broad street and in King Street and Bridge Street they they could increase the maximum parking time to 2 hours, at least this way you have a little more time to shop etc.. The traffic wardens are too keen to issue tickets too, all of this does not encourage people into our city.

This of course is just my view but there is an online survey which I think is worth completing, see below.

We are undertaking a review of on street parking arrangements in the historic core of Hereford city centre. National good practice indicates that we should review on-street parking restrictions periodically in order to check that they continue to meet the needs of all road users. In addition the review will aim to support current schemes in the historic core including street de-cluttering through rationalising existing signage, 20mph zones and more cycling facilities.

We are consulting with businesses, residents and visitors who use on street parking in the historic core of Hereford. Questionnaires for residents and businesses will be delivered to properties within the city centre area. In addition our survey staff will be out in the city centre talking to people who are using on street parking and providing them with questionnaires. Surveys can be returned via the Freepost address supplied.

Alternatively you can complete the questionnaire online.

The closing date for responses is 17 March 2014.

 

 

Some weeks ago, Councillors Paul Rone(no embarrassment is intended) and Andrew Atkinson put forward a motion for Councillors to take a cut in their pay packet.

My initial reaction was to hurl bile and phlegm upon these two lads suggesting that it was a political gimmick designed to win favour from their constituents and upon the pages of the Hereford Times, I kicked them as hard as I was able to.

Then, after giving it some thought, which is what I should have done in the first place, but because Im dull I didn't, I realised that this was no gimmick. It was simply two young lads choosing to do things in a different way. They simply wanted to raise the issue of huge and unsustainable salaries that exist within the Council and set an example in the hope that others would follow.

Im given to understand that when these two lads tabled their suggestion within the Council Chamber they took a kicking from all who were in attendance.

I am aware of the views of Councillor Powell but Id like to know what our other Councillors think about the Rone/Atkinson proposal and explain to us why these two lads didn't receive any support for what was a thoroughly good and well intended suggestion.

I'd like to know what our Councillors think about this issue and why it was that their suggestion was met with hostility.

My view is that these two lads tried to break the mould and thought in a different way which is what I now want from our local leaders. I want free thinkers who are prepared to think outside the old ways of delivering democracy and approach local issues in an entirely different way. I believe, after some reflection, instead of hurling shouts of 'gimmicks' and other choice words of derision, I should have said, 'well done'. I'd be very grateful if our new Councillors would take the time to explain their views on this issue and perhaps shed some light upon why it was that they were subjected to a political kicking.

My warmest regards to you all.

It's wet outside so I thought I would start a new topic!

Does anyone ever pay a ticket for parking on double yellow lines in the city?

I would have thought that good a defence would be - I will pay when you start enforcing the double yellow lines in Bewell Street which are always clogged up with taxis. Every day that road is blocked and nothing is done. Surely this is more dangerous given the need for emergency vehicle access on a narrow road than parking on double yellow lines in Commercial Road.

But is there one law for us and another for taxis?

Queuing patiently to buy my weekly Lotto ticket in Morrisons the othe other day, I fell into conversation with the bloke standing behind me.  'You realise you've more chances of sleeeping with Joan Collins than winning this thing, don't you?'  It could have been Al Read speaking from the grave.  As there were 17 people in front of us, I thanked him for this fascinating statistic and legged it into High Town.

Clustered around the bull statue in front of the Old House was a small knot of East Europeans, avidly buying £5 raffle tickets from a man I'd recently seen featured on a 'Police are anxious to interview this man' CCTV freeze-frame on the Hereford Times website.

'Excuse me: what's the first prize?' I impudently enquired from the back of the throng.  'A night with John Major at the Castle Pool Hotel,' came the rapid response, like a Hamas rocket.  'And suppose the winner's a bloke?'  'Send the missus; Edwina never complained!'

But it was the fascinating array of runners-up prizes which were the real clinchers for me.  Second prize was a week's suuply of bacon butties, cooked in the winner's own kitchen by Councillor John Jarvis (ketchup not included).  Then there were half-hour bedtime readings for a whole month from the Highway Code, by Councillor Brian Wilcox - surely guaranteed to get you to sleep.  Next was a signed copy of Roger Phillips' little-known gem 'All you could ever want to know about farming' (a slim volume this, just 24 pages long); and then, to cap it all, the piece de resistance: a weekend's weeding of your own garden by Councillor Patricia Morgan, dressed only in khaki short-shorts and a wet T-shirt reading: 'I really, really want Big Tony's job!'.