Adrian symonds

Upper floors yes but this application is for change of use from retail to residential to include the ground floor

Do it matter? We have so many empty shops, if anyone want to set up a shop there is plenty to choose from, but some of them have been empty for years and I doubt they will ever get anyone in them.

i wondered what happened to it, glad they have done a restoration on it, it would have been sad to lose it, even if it never fly again, still part of our history.

There is something called a power switch on the TV, if you do not like what is on it then turn it off, or try one of the online services, like now Tv, netflix or amazon.

My Tv licence runs out at the end of the yearish and it is not going to be renewed, I went without TV for almost 3 years, i wish now i never bothered to renew the licence. 

Very little worth bothering with, I will stick with now Tv and netflix, oh yeah and optical  disks.

Adrian, the infrastructure which could be utilised could run a tram from the top of Newton Farm through Redhill, Hunderton, Whitecross and into the train station, it could also run from the top of Holmer (back of Wiggins), it could also go from Rotherwas. We are looking at private funding and sponsorships like many other cities.

 

We are merely asking the council to look at this idea and run a feasibility study at the moment but please don't dismiss the idea before any studies take place.  

I still have my doubts and apart from the odd few people like on here and a mate of mine, most people I talk to also have their doubts. It will take a lot of work and a lot of money and who ever backs it will need deep pockets, the old railway bridge needs a lot of work done on it, there are holes in it where there should not be holes. 

There will still be a large part of the city missed out, Most of Newton farm for a start unless you are going to take the tram onto the roads, Part of Hunderton and Redhill, then you are missing out the College, and Tupsley.

While I like the idea of trams i do not think it will work, by all means try it, as long as as it do not cost the tax payers. i would like electric buses in dedicated lanes, but that will not happen, due to the way Hereford is built.

I agree with everything your have written Adrian with exception to your last paragraph, for me, the tram would be brilliant! I also think it is worth looking into this idea in more detail.

 

As for buses in Hereford they are a waste of time. There is only one bus in the mornings from Newton Farm to Holmer and I have to change at Tesco in town to catch it! There are plenty from Newton Farm into town but only one from town to Holmer and that arrives an hour earlier than I need,  Have to be at work for 9am. So loads of people moaning that people use cars when they could use public transport but the service just in not there.

A tram would only be of use to a small part of the city, there are people on the north side of the river and the south that would not be anywhere near where the tram will operate. Also who will pay for it and who will take the cost if it fails? 

If the Tam could cover more of the city which it can not, then I would agree it would be a good idea.

No returns now on the bus either, from the College Green, it is now £2.20 single or a £4 all day ticket, but do that mean just on that route or routes all over Hereford?

TBH, I can go to Gloucester and back  for a few quid more, better shops, cleaner city and just a nicer place.

I think you should look at the prices first, Way over priced and since other stores are having problems, i can not see this one lasting long.

I like the idea of a new store, but it is just the same old thing we have already got apart from having sky high prices, there is nothing then really, so still nothing in the city centre to entice people in.

TBH, I try to avoid town these days, if I go into town it is just the shops I need to go in and then back home, even stopping for a coffee with friends is getting annoying because of the constant noise from the un-required roadworks that is going on.

While there are people who can cycle, there are many who have to rely on public transport.

I do have a bike, I have not used it since before I was ill, I am going to get it back on the road for the summer, but to be honest with some of the idiots on the road I am not sure if I want, people who do not indicate, park where they want to, get too close to cyclists.

Saying that I see many cyclists who are no better, going down one way streets the wrong way, riding on pavements, going through red lights, and also thinking that stopping at a zebra crossing when people going across do not apply to them,

We need a reliable and cheap public transport system and not the stupid tram idea that some people are looking at

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.

i am confused, the top picture of the old Market seat thing is dated March and yet I thought they only just a few weeks back put that seat in. i have heard that it is not in the best place and that someone will fall over it as it is a bit low for some people to see.

I did see it quickly as i past the Old market on the bus and it does look out of place.  I tend not to go there if I can help it.

As for the pictures not sure if i like the instagram effects,, I suppose i just like pictures to be pictures, but for what they are they look arty, if that is a word.

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They may teach their staff the difference between real ale and lager then.

Yes. As far as I am aware, he eventually failed to complete on the deal a couple of months ago - although you'd be hard pressed to know that from the Council - and the jewel in the crown continues it's slow decline.

A shame really, it would be nice to get the butter market into a decent state that people want to go in there.

As for a need for a new pub, with pubs closing it would be a good idea to get those pubs back up and running first.

Yes.

Cheers. 

Land belongs to Darren Sockett. He begged it .

Is that the same Darren Sockett who was suppose to be sorting out the butter market as of which nothing have been done?

More money in fuel than houses - let down once again by councillors. We were sold the original Asda master plan with the help of a flagship entrance to the City - high quality housing - as part of the overall plan - but as with all long term master plans, this council are incapable of (and not interested in) sticking to them - ESG for instance - so the money men skim the cream off the top and depart and we lose.

While it will make no difference to me what so ever as I do not live that side of the river and do not drive, I think a PFS is better than yet more houses, we are having more than enough houses built in Hereford, if there is such a shortage of housing, why is the Hereford Time full every week of houses for Sale?

The city can not cope with new houses, roads are chockablock, the hospital can not cope and jobs are pretty slim.

Stand for West Midland Combined Authority and Herefordshire council is ploughing £25,000 of our money that we have not go into this. Nice of them to ask us, Another waste of money into another useless organisation that will do nothing for us.

Money going to a CEO, managers, board members and anyone else tyhey want to keep in a job, Birmingham and all the other big cities will grab our money and well will get nothing out of like normal.

Instead of wasting £25,000 on this rubbish use it to clean this stinking city up.

Comment were closed off in the HT on this report yesterday - somebody over stepped the mark 

No doubt asked the question I did above. 

Yeah......We know   .

It's a good thing that so many are not as narrow minded as you and go out and support our City shops and businesses.

But there is very little to support, most of the shops in town are the same thing, clothes, clothes and more clothes, the Old Market is full of food places, you go across the road from there and there is another food place.

I try to support small local shops, I use Moores, I go into butchers and buy stuff, I also tend to stay away from the larger coffee chains and use The coffee cart in High Town, the only large coffee chain I use now and again is Nero, but it is only now and again.

so do not say I do not support local shops because I do, just not most of the large ones.

Really sad to see it like it to be honest, i tend to avoid the city centre these days if I can, only going in to meet friends for Coffee and do a bit of food shopping. anything else I get online these days.

At the risk of getting a minus vote from somebody, unless the council has changed in the last 11 months the rule is no councillor from another ward is allowed to come into someone elses ward with out permission from the council. Also the GWW is part of BBLP contract so they should be keeping the GWW clean and tidy as a part of their job. We the people are paying twice over in our council tax and precept money for what BBLP should be doing. and getting paid for doing it. But good job by the people and police.

I agree with you, it is not up to the public to go around cleaning rubbish up, this is what we pay the council huge amounts of money for, we pay more each year and get less for it.

I know that a lot of the problems are cause by people chucking rubbish on the floor, but it is also caused by over flowing bins that are not emptied. Sadly we are not the the only city like it, seems like the whole country is going to the dogs.

I wonder if any councillors  live anywhere near where the proposed sites are

Is that where the butchers used to be? I have not been to the oval for years, but looking at that photo that state of the outside of that shop is disgusting. 

My brother used to help him out in the shop and when my brother tided things up Mr Wilson used to complain that he could not find anything.  I have no idea how he used to find things, but he knew where things was. 

Used to go there for paraffin and he used to allow me to pour to use the dispenser, remember it well, pull the handle down to dispense and push it back up to fill the glass jar thing back up. Classical music always playing in the back.  The ford Anglia parked outside the front.

Remember when the chippy went on fire, as well, but I never remember it being called the Oval Fish and chip saloon. 

Bring back memories.

I hear that the deal to transfer ownership to Sockett has still not gone through for various reasons, principally the developers desire to get some flats into the scheme and the lack of legal access along Maylord Street (sold off by the Council in yet another short sighted desire to offload responsibility for anything and everything). He has been given a final deadline of next Thursday to seal the deal or it's all off. Whether Food for Growth are still around or would be interested is unknown - otherwise, yet another colossal waste of our money to stand still, whilst the building and the traders suffer the consequences.

something should be done with it, it could be so nice and we could get local products in there. 

This is the problem with Hereford, ok, this is one of the problems, we have so many local products and no where to sell them.

Someone must be reading my comments as the area has been blitzed in the past two days by pcso's & traffic wardens with quite a few tickets being issued.

I hope they keep it up

Little chance of that, they will do it when they can be bothered to get up here. People do not care, you go around to other parts of the city you get parking on pavements, double yellow lines and and even cycle paths or what is suppose to be a cycle path.

 Even seen a forklift parked on the pavement when I am going to work.

I have reported the growth on the fence behind the Co-op as you can not see when crossing the road, I doubt anything will be be done, I will complain again if nothing is done by next week.

Out walking on this beautiful sunny morning and saw this eye sore! 2 mattresses just dumped on the footpath between Sydwall Road and Belmont Road, what is wrong with people? I noticed there is plastic on the one end perhaps they can grab a finger print and prosecute these vile people. 

 

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Even if they get a fingerprint the chance of it being on record is pretty slim and just because a finger print is on there it do not mean that they dumped it there. There would have to be hard proof who the mattress belonged too.

It just show what people are like and do not care about the environment they live in. But then if you get a council who do not really care, what do you expect?

I had a survey thing posted to me yesterday about transport from the council. More money wasted as we already done this a few years back and also the council have decided what they are going to do, so what ever we say will make no difference. 

Also, when I said about cycling in the city I got laid into and yet now people on here are more or less saying what I said.

Make up your minds.