herefordman75

They could use smart lighting too if they thought about it - ones on a sensor that only come on when someone is detected? Probably not as safe as having full LED ones on 24/7, but maybe more cost effective if they were switched to sensing between say midnight and 7am

I wouldn't use it in daylight let alone when its dark to many unseen corners for my liking, you could not see anyone lerking there until its to late. We won't get cctv look how long it took on GWW and the council didn't pay for that one, as I have said many time before unless its a 'pet subject' of the council's they are not interested. People's safety is right out of the window.

If your last comment is correct about people's safety being right out of the window, then surely if someone is unfortunate enough to be attacked/injured (or god forbid, worse), then would the council be liable as they have not fulfilled their duty of care to the electorate? Just a thought.

I was thinking more of a shuttle bus to bring people into the city to walk around the participating establishments etc rather than running between pubs. Maybe there could be a stage set up on Castle Green, or Bishops Meadow for bands and live acts (some decent stand up's would be good too - not all of us like live music).

Not sure about a festival set around pubs, it makes us all out to be boozers.

 

Who you callin' boozer? <hic> wanna fight about it, step outside, i'll take yer all on! <hic> you're my bestest buddy ever <hic>

Clun have just had one this weekend just gone, involve a minibus between venues with food and local ales etc.

I personally think it's a fantastic idea. If it was just the pubs in town, then is there a need for a minibus? Unless of course there are plans to run one around local villages to collect and drop people off (say a £5 charge per person) from outlying villages (Kingstone/Madley/Holme Lacy/Moreton etc) as public transport get a bit iffy if you are tanked up after a festival, lol. Obviously insurance and costs are an issue there though, but may attract more people if there is an option of not having to drive in to town.

How about the Hereford ABC Festival? (Ale, Beer & Cider Festival) as a name?

Moan  Moan  Moan.  All it seems to me is that a firm stands up and delivers a service and decides to charge a bit more for doing it. Wake up people!!  If they are the only ones delivering the bus service, they can charge what the hell they want. If you don't want to relieve the Hereford traffic problem then take your car, pay 2-3 pound for parking, plus your petrol costs and suffer. Yeoman's have given 30+ people jobs. Their families are, I suspect, extremely grateful. Herefordman75 and Adrian Symonds wind your necks in. Be grateful.

Personally it doesn't bother me how much the bus costs, I drive and cycle to work (8 miles each way). However, it's those on low paid jobs that are the ones who suffer. When they have to spend nearly a third of their wages per week on transport costs, it starts to bite for them. It's all well and good for you "townies" who have the luxury of being a short walk/cycle/bus ride away (with nice regular services every half hour in some cases), but for those of us who live in the outlying villages, it's very expensive to use public transport.

What the hell is wrong with this city? Get a local company to take over the bus service and then they put the price up, even on bus routes they was doing before First pulled out.

 

Not just 5p opr 10p, oh no, 20p more expensive now. from town to college Green I just paid £2.00 instead of £1,80. i tend not to use the bus much as it is, I use my legs, so I will be using a lot less, just buying small bits at a time.

 

No wonder people do not use the buses and the city comes to a standstill most days, I think that what the council wants so they can spend our money on roads that do nothing, so they can build more houses. if people got any sense they would not come to live here. Hereford used to be a nice place to live, but over the last few years it have become a dump, with a council that do not care about the city itself as long as big business is cared for.

 

I can understand why youngsters go and never come back, they got sense.

My daughter came in last night and told us the bus fares had increased by 30p (449 route) - no signs on buses to warn people, or notices in the papers, they have just done it. No wonder there are hardly any bus users on rural routes it's cheaper to use a car at £6.90 return!

If it's of value Grid Knocker, the Police have all but moved out of the BT building and with the advent, some years ago now, of digital telephonic equipment, not much of the building is used now. It was originally that size because of the analogue switch gear. Could easily be turned into a nice Office Block :- plenty of parking, CCTV and good access. About the price. Maybe somebody slipped up. Any way, if I'd the money I might consider it. Now where have the kids hidden their piggy banks?

I would have said better off repurposing it as cheap affordable housing/flats

well I have now looked into this and my view is that we need more festivals, of different types.

 

This was primarily a music festival with tribute bands. The fun fair and other bits and pieces were a side line to entertain children and adults waiting for their favourite band to come on. £8.00 was a good price if you were staying there for the music. You pay more to hear one tribute band at other venues.

 

The Barrels charged £9.00 for entrance, well worth it but you would have to have spent lots more for beer or cider!

 

I am not sure why there was only 4 local cider producers there but that was the producers decision.

To hire the KGV meadows you have to go through property services who will decide on the provisions you need to provid for your festival. Balfour Beatty did the clearing up, safety etc and I have no problem with their work.

 

Does seem that many people enjoyed the festival. When it was put on in Swansea it rain and the field looked like a mud bath but hey, that is what all festival are about. We need things like this to happen in Hereford. I am not sure how much it costs to get into the Bromyard Festival but I think it was a similar price, HAY festival costs a bomb and Brecon Jazz Festival can be expensive,

 

Let's hope that other people want to provide entertainment for the masses, I do not want to have to keep going to the Cathedral or Shire Hall for my entertainment. In the 60s the City Council refused permission a for a band(pop group in those days) to perform in Hereford because of their long hair and permiscuous behaviour, which is why the Beatles and Stones never got to Herefordshire

Except at the likes of Bromyard (I assume you mean the Nozstock festival), Hay and Brecon, you have genuine bands and performers on a much larger scale, so while they may be more expensive to get into, at least you are getting a decent experience. If my memory serves me correctly, with Hay don't you just pay for to see the performers, actors and writers etc, rather than to actually get in?

Shhhh, if they hear you, they will change it to a premium rate number rather than a local one (that would be free via most service providers)

Oh yes, a quick lick of paint and a tidy up and back on the market it goes. I was under the impression Cllr. Rone was going to revamp and re-open how naive of me.

They have put planning in to change the upstairs into flats - so won't be long before a change of use goes in to convert the whole thing I reckon

Will pass the number on to my other half - she's the 'hog guardian in our house! We have at least 3 that come round every night foraging, not sure if it's normal or not, but they do like their rich tea biscuits. It's the same ones each year (with the addition of a couple of smaller ones each time) and I am pretty sure they are living under our small shed, so are never in danger. Easily identified as the bigger one has got a big white stripe on it

On a slightly more sensible note, that would only leave the Saracens Head (only just as it's on the river path pretty much) and The Broadleys south of the river? (in town of course)

The diesel to power all of the above for 7 days

 

They only there 3 days, so why fuel for 7????

Council planning to build a St.Martins Street link road costing £250 million to complete, paved with Unicorn horn & Leprechaun Gold perhaps????

I remember back in the early 00's I think, when the good old EU decided that fuel pumps had to be a set distance from the road, there was a major campaign to get these exempted due to their historic nature - I am pretty sure they are listed now as well. Very quaint little place, hardly changed in the last 50 years or so, I think he still uses a manual till as well!

We need to have a long, hard look at what we currently have, and decide if there are better ways of utilising it........

 

We could use the corrupt councillors as bridge supports for the 2nd river crossing that is so desparately needed?

Thought I had seen somewhere....

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/11314506.Holmer_residents_get_first_look_at_460_homes_proposal/

Think it was being mooted earlier this year/late last year. Seem to remember seeing something in the HT at one point about it, numerous reactions of excessive traffic/pollution/flooding etc, which is justified in my eyes as the Starting gate roundabout is a bottleneck (even after the Highways Agency altered it), with traffic queing all the way past Kenchester Water Gardens almost daily, so with another (potentially) 700 cars added it'll be even worse. The P&R will alleviate things slightly, although it's not going to improve things unless there is a dedicated terminus at say the OLM or Merton Meadow with a shuttle running between the two, rather than using service buses.

Biomech -Good Morning , just another thought , many , many years ago my hobby was Stamp Collecting , people gave me stamps for my collection ........My question is. .....as collecting grass appears to be your hobby would you like others to help you increase your grass cuttings collection ?

...and compost it, bag it, then sell it at the car boots next year???

It's my Household rubbish collection day tomorrow - my decision is , shall I get up at 0625 tomorrow to put my bin out at the curtlage of my home or do I do it tonight .

Let me explain my problem ( well one of them !) we live on a country land 3 m wide. Coming up the lane just before our home is a bend, visibility around the bend is restricted . The front of my home is about 5m back from the edge of my boundary , it's all hard standing which vehicles use as a passing place - I have no problem with that - the problem that I have is that for the last 9 years I have placed my bin / black bagby the house so that the bin people have to roll it an extra 5m to the vehicle . In the past this has allowed vehicles using the lane including many farm vehicles a layby to use so that vehicles may pass in safety.

The new collectors, for whatever reason ( think that it's their instructions , which are black and white with no discretion ) have been placing the bin on my property but only a smigin off the lane . If I am at home I can rescue the bin quickly otherwise it's parked / dumped correctly on my property but within the firing line of vehicles using the lane.

Rambling on but I am glad to read on the bin that it's the property of HCC so I presume that they will replace it if damaged by vehicle etc

I will finally add that I am going to ask / request that the bin people do return the bin closer to our home

you need one of these round the corner

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Oops,got my wellies on the wrong feet :)

Hello all, new to this, but bear with me.

The issue of a Hereford bypass is one of my pet grumbles, why we have to be the only City on the A49 without one is ridiculous, as it is strangling the life out of the county.

I can see why the council want to go East - they want to open up the land at Stretton Sugwas etc for housing (which would part pay for the "bypass" - economic sense really), anyone else seen the long term housing plan? 3500 homes in Kings Acre by 2030 if my memory remembers correctly.

Anyway, a Western route is a much more sound idea. FIrstly it links the A4103 and A49 to Rotherwas, there could be an exit onto the Ledbury road, but with a weight limit to prevent HGV access to and from iy maybe? I know there are some issues with wildlife and plants etc, but didn't the same thing happen with the Newbury bypass? and that has flourished since it was built into a wildlife haven (anyone remember Stumpy?)

Plus it would be shorter, saving money, and fuel due to the reduced distance that goods traffic from Worcester/Shrewsbury would have to travel, reducing the environmental impact.

The new link road (to me anyway) is pointless, as there are very few HGV's that use the A465 due to the height limit at Belmont and Pontrilas, so what commercial traffic is likely to use it exactly? (think someone else mentioned that point somewhere else too?) My other concern is the link between the A465 and the Clehonger road. Looking at the plan, you will approach the new link from Clehonger, and when you get to Mcintyre's Corner (as it's known) you then hit what looks like an S bend to branch off to the new roundabout, anyone else remember the number of RTC's that have happened along that stretch, surely adding a chicane is going to cause a few more issues?