Adrian symonds

I am glad it is going to stay open, even if I thought it closed years ago.  I do not go to that side of the city very often these days.

Something needs to be done, because people park  so close to the corner it sometimes bring traffic to a stop and one day someone is going to get killed.

We will wait and see if it makes a difference.

You don't like The Courtyard either?

Is there anything you do like about Hereford?

It could have been better. Why have three stages? It could have had a larger stage. I have seen a couple of good shows there I must admit.

And your spelling and grammar!  Find a positive in Hereford. Or go?

Where do you get off telling me what I should do?

That's it I have to ask Adrian ......is there a anything about your home county that grabs you. Nothing agrees with you yet if it makes you so unhappy why haven't you tried life elsewhere?

 

I have never known anyone with so much negativity.

Is there anything that grabs me about my home county? No, not any more.  I used to love Hereford, which is why I stayed here, while many people I know decided to go. 

One of my friends sadly decided to get out a few weeks back and go to Devon, 

This link is dead?

It was ok at the time, they must have moved it.

So as well as paying for shows, they want people to donate. i admit I have not been there for a few years, I do not like the place, cramped and the stage is too small to put anything big on. shame really because I like theatre. 

Proposal approved. Traffic Order will be in force from 7 November 2015. Subject to the lines being painted I suppose.

 

Herefordshire Council

Good, about time before someone gets killed.

Waste of time ...it's difficult to see who will enforce!

Oh right, lets get rid of all double yellow lines then. Not that it makes much difference, because people do seem to ignore them, even to the point of people parking on pavements or putting fork trucks on pavements as well.

It is a shame to see the old  ones go, they look much better than the metal pipes that are now stuck in the ground.

We still got a old one down the road next to a new one, it is not connected, I have no idea when it will be removed

Pity Morrisons didn't keep some of those parsnips back yesterday - only three loose parsnips for sale when I was in there yesterday then there was 1!

Loads in Sainsburys, 

I hate these vouchers, the ones that offer you x amount of money off your next shop (because they were too expensive today!) They are banking on the fact that ou will forget to bring it next time and usually I do.

Also a waste of paper to be honest, the amount of rubbish I get from some supermarkets now is beyond it. all I want is a receipt to tell me how much I spent. I do not care if my shopping is a penny cheaper than another supermarket and I certainly don't need a bit of people to tell me so.

One day I will be able to go to a supermarket without being nagged about loyalty cards, time to get rid of the things and just keep the prices down.

As for waste, things are getting better. As for parsnip thing, I think it is a load or rubbish as I have seen parsnips in supermarket in all shapes and sizes and why can't the farmer sell them to the public directly?

According to a local businessman, all of the boarding cost in excess of £44k! That is what he was told by a site worker when they were erecting the boards. Unbelievable amounts of money, where do they get these figures from? 

Yeah, seems a bit iffy to be honest.

The multi million costing materials installed in High Town Very Recently were apparently bespoke and up to the job. Then the neglect and trucks etc moved in. The Maintenance Schedule is dubious to say the least and the cleaning has dropped down the food chain to a privately operated Gulper Machine or whatever it's called. High Town is shambolic and dirty/grubby.

 

I was walking down Church Street (main shopping street) in Liverpool at 07.30 last Friday morning and the jet washers were out keeping the area sp!ck and span. All over the situation. Very clean. Just never gonna be happening around here. 

 

(I edited the post after noticing that the word 'sp!ck' is on the word censor list! Learned something tonight!) 

I agree, don't Liverpool have a elected Mayor? Maybe that is what we should do, save paying for a Mayor that just goes around with a chain around his neck and doing little else.

Roger - you do love a good whinge.

 

Will be interesting to see the full proposed details and plans at the public consultation. The amount of scaffolding and empty shops is my biggest concern. Visually it looks crap at the moment and is def suffering from a lack of proper cleaning and maintenance

No point in spending money on public consultations, the council never takes any notice anyway. 

For all the negatives this road has like bloody traffic lights I can now see some positives like the Police & Fire stations, cycle & walkway to and from Train station to City Center,

Hereford - Gloucester canal.Just hope they also put the bus station alongside the train station.

What I don't get is that we get all this news that we have no money for this, no money for that and yet we can afford to build new fire stations and new police stations, new roads that are not needed and yet we can't afford to keep toilets open in the city centre.

We need a decent city bus station, the one at Tescos is too small and someone is going get hurt there if it carries on, worse now since Yeomans took over the runs for some reason.

You watch our council tax go up again to pay for Herefordshire council vanity projects.

It's a building site, of course it looks a bit tacky.

If the council had spent thousands of pounds on really smart signage I dare say that would be wrong too?

Looks hell of a lot better than plain wooden sheets.

 

Should have got someone maybe to paint it, like what they have done with the boarding around the fire damaged buildings in the city centre. 

Yep! I'm up for that too. We are in Europe, so why do we not have pavement cafe's and bars? 

We do, well some anyway, but it took many years for it to happen, because people thought it was too common.

Hereford city centre is not dull...

Try Cwmbran, or Stevenage, or Gloucester to name but three.

Hereford isn't Worcester, Cardiff, Birmingham or Bristol, and to expect it to be as exciting as somewhere much bigger is unfair.

There is far too much bashing of Hereford going on, and I intend to stick up for the old girl.

We as a population are very lucky to live in such a lovely part of the country and should be a little more grateful and a little less miserable about it.

Sure the "powers that be" are a bunch of tools at times, but I dare say, so are most other councils.

Hereford itself is dull, sure we got some great countryside, not that it will last long as they keep building on it, but that is about it. Oh yeah the retail markets are nice.

I know Hereford is not Worcester, Cardiff, Birmingham or Bristol, I am not expecting it to be, but let get some life in the city centre. 

​When we first separated from Worcester I thought great, now i think that perhaps it was not the best idea.

the council is a total waste of time, and over the last few years the Tories have to be honest got the city in the state it is in and yet people still vote them in. But that is Hereford for you.

I will bash Hereford as much as I want, I was born and bred here.

Tell me why Hereford is not dull?

Just been through there in the last hr.Problem with Maylords is that its privately owned so it has private contractors to do the cleaning which they obviously are not doing.

On another note empty shops seem to be filling up in the town centre.The old Bristol n West place has someone in after well over three years being empty.

The big shop with scaffold on by Maylords is to open as a cookware shop.Barnardos by black n White house is filled.

My mum worked as a cleaner in Maylords when it first opened and everything had to be spot on, it was always clean. even when she left and the contract was taken over be a different company it was still clean, it is only in the last few years it have fallen apart. 

The lift always seems to be out of order, I know it is getting on, but they should sort it out.

The old Barnardos shop is Off the wall that have moved from St'Owen street, so still a empty shop somewhere.

That place is getting worse, the toilets stink and a lot of the time are broken, maybe because now they are about the only loos left in the city centre and the lift seems to break down too often.

The cleaning is awful, dirty and grubby and with all the stalls in the lobby it is far too crowded. It shows how far downhill Maylords have gone. A few years ago they would not have anything in the lobby at all, now they have what ever they can get.

Who owns the place now?

I know times are hard, but giving it a decent clean would not hurt it.

I'll enlighten you .... 

 

 

 

 

That is called 'clutter' ..... Too much going on .... As alluded to by The Council Leader ..... 

 

 

Obviously not the point I was making .... 

As I said, i have not really got a problem with a bit of clutter as you call it. i like the idea of being able to drink a coffee outside, need to have a place that sells beer in the High town as well, so we can sit outside with a pint. I know it will not happen, but we can dream.

The retail market is good for people who uses it and gives a bit of life to a other wise dull city centre. 

I go past it most days going to work, I saw them putting up the signs stuck to the boarding, it looks tacky to be honest. It is a shame that the garage have come down, certainly for something that is not needed, but the council need their projects and need to carry on being dictators and not caring what the public say.

You can't buy coffee on the internet as by the time it arrives it's cold. Same as a haircut. You can't buy that on the internet. 

You can buy coffee beans on the net, I buy mine from James Goumet from Ross on wye,  

 

I suppose a coffee shop is better than an empty shop. They will know that there is the opposition situated about 3 feet away (who have no rates to pay). It's part of the clutter that gets wheeled into High Town every day.

 

I would anticipate this new coffee shop will try and cordon off some space out front for the tourists' who will have quickly worked out that there's actually not a lot of proper shops in High Town to go into.

Not sure what you mean by clutter to be honest, the way you put it is if it is a bad thing. I think the coffee cart being ion High town is a good thing a local company that sells pretty decent coffee. To be honest over the last couple of years their coffee have improved and while I prefer to drink coffee from a proper cup, I find their coffee nice. 

A lot of chain coffee bars over roast their beans and make them bitter, Coffee cart don't seem to.

The best coffee is still in Diagos, they sell local roasted coffee. 

The thing that I do find that takes up far too much space in the city centre is when there is two or more different markets in the centre at the same time. I like the retail market, but when you have got the farmers market on the same day it is too compact.

For too long Hereford was stuck in the past when it came to having tables and chairs outside, i think it was the cafe that was by Tescos passage, which is now the spice shop that started it. 

I love being able to sit outside with a coffee or a mixed berry smoothie in the summer watching people go by.

Next to Lloyds Bank. See planning application and docs attached (Number P153035/F):

 

AppForm 237293.pdf

 

BlockPlan 237298.pdf

Ah, I see, thanks for that.

Where is 4/5 High town? I tend not to use the coffee chains if I can help it, the only one I do use if I have to use a coffee chain is Neros. I do prefer the coffee from Deagos, but it is a bit out of town, so I normally use the coffee cart if it is warm enough.

Costa is awful coffee and only ever been in one starbucks, never again.

I have heard of Coffee#1, but never been in one. I will give it a try when it opens.