Adrian Pitt

I agree with Colin 100%, lived in Redhill all my life and traffic is definitely smoother flowing when there were no traffic lights, where Ross Road meet Belmont Road is a bottle neck but nothing like it is nowadays. So lights out for me too 

It's really good to see more and more local Councillors joining HV. Welcome 

Turning the lights off was Colin's idea Wendy, and I still believe it would help but now with the new addition makes things even more complicated but this whole junction is a mess if you ask me.

I see your point, but i think it has the opposite effect, i think it is highlighting scams, which has to be good, furthermore, they are two totally different threads and should be treated as such. They are both related by one simple word SCAM

I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone here for your support,and kind comments made it is very much appreciated.

You are always very active, so credit due Councillor.

I received an answer from Amey to my request for the trees and bushes to be cut right back. A grounds
supervisor will meet on site with a sub contractor and myself by the end of the month to discuss works needed to be carried out. The grounds supervisor is confident on what works need doing, budget allowing.

Keep up with your campaign Colin for 2013 you are doing a great job with this.

I have just spotted this article about this campaign on the Hereford Times website

Hereford Council destroyed Hereford long ago! They killed the shops in Widemarsh Street n broad st by putting in poxy 1 way systems where people couldn't access them and weren't allowed to park for any sufficient length of time and why pedestrianise everywhere? when there are no decent shops (except if u want to drink coffee all day n just hang out if u havent gor a job - Oh yeh there are no jobs because there are no shops because you can't get to them easily by car - silly me) #justsayin.

I moved away from Hereford over 3 yrs ago and have access to everything right here. Hot food, cold food, swimming facilities x 3, shopping facilities x 10, traffic jams don't exist n I can walk my dogs without having to worry who's behind me! Goodbye Hereford n enjoy your cold pasties!!

It would not take much to do the job properly in the first place, but even now to remove these dead posts is no big deal. I agree they do look unsightly. They will not do anything until some child cuts themselves on the sharp metal within, like on the concrete one.

Yes we always clean our things prior to putting them in the wheelie bin.

The person responsible should still be prosecuted in my opinion. I hate these people who think they can just dump their rubbish where they like and expect someone else to clean it up.

Still, this is a good result, Well done Colin and Craig Sandman's team :Thumbs-Up:

"Stand ready to challenge any schools or councils that say 'bah, humbug' to a bit of festive fun."

 

I didn't write the above headline, it was said by the UK government's Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham. The full quote is: "Armed with our guidance, parents should feel free to snap away this Christmas and stand ready to challenge any schools or councils that say 'bah, humbug' to a bit of festive fun."

 

It remains to be seen whether or not this official response will finally end the annual spate of incidents where frustrated parents are bullied into not recording their children performing in school plays by condescending school staff.

Data Protection Act

 

The reasons given by a very small number of schools for banning photography and video recording by parents at school performances have varied, but Commissioner Graham was responding specifically to the excuse that schools were taking action to avoid breaching the Data Protection Act, for which Graham is the official watchdog.

 

A number of schools had argued that as adopted and fostered children were in their care during school time, that they risked breaching the Data Protection Act by permitting parents from photographing their own children at school. Commissioner Graham has unequivocally stated that schools do not risk breaching the Data Protection Act in this way. He said: "Having a child perform at a school play or a festive concert is a very proud moment for parents and is understandably a memory that many want to capture on camera. It is disappointing to hear that the myth that such photos are forbidden by the Data Protection Act still prevails in some schools."

Common sense

 

He added: "A common sense approach is needed. Clearly, photographs simply taken for a family album are exempt from data protection laws."

Threat of arrest

 

Most of us may wonder what all the fuss is about as we have not experienced such narrow-minded impositions at the schools of our own children. But only recently news emerged of a parent who, in 2007, was threatened with arrest by police as he arrived at his daughter's school if he proceeded to break the school's ban on photography at a nativity play. The same school in Leicestershire still has the ban in place, although photographs can be taken after the performance is completed.

 

The school's head defended the ban, which was brought in at the request of some parents who didn't want their children photographed, and claimed that it accommodated both these parents and those who did want to take photos. The question has to be asked, if you don't want your children photographed at events like this, why? Indeed, why allow your children to be seen be other parents full stop?

Copyright

 

A few years ago there was a suggestion that video recording and still photography would be banned during a play being performed at the primary school our children attended. It was only a concern about copyright because the school had licensed a commercially supplied play. But by seeking clarification from the publishers of the play it was clear that photographs or recording made for personal, non-commercial, viewing, did not constitute a breach of copyright.

 

Official school guidance is that photography during school plays should be permitted. If there are genuine concerns from parents about the security of their children in the face of an audience of parents snapping their own kids during the Christmas nativity play, then it's that problem that needs to be addressed. Banning cameras is certainly not the answer, and it looks like that's now official.

Good article

100% agree with your campaign mate

WE NEED A BYPASS - PERIOD!!

That's what forums are for, "open debate" I am of the same opinion about your disappointment when referring to other councillors not registering.

Keep up the good work :Thumbs-Up:

Bit off topic I know, but I'm not sure how to start a new thread or whether this warrants one, but here is one of my conspiracy tales from the post war years.

 

At the time that Hunderton was being laid out & planned, it was suggested that a river crossing be made at the end of Beattie Ave with a road passing to the west of the Water Works & linking with Kings Acre/Whitecross Road at the Foxhunter roundabout.

Both Beattie Ave & Wordsworth Road were planned & built sufficiently wide to take the then anticipated flow of traffic.Beattie Ave was then expected to be only temporary anyway because of the limited life in the prefabs. How wrong they were!!

 

Here's where the conjecture sets in!!

 

It is alleged that someone overseeing the works did not want this to take place for reasons one can only speculate upon, & in a successful ploy to thwart the road arranged for one of the 3 storey blocks of flats in Villa St to be so sited as to effectively close the end of Beattie Ave.

 

Have look at Google Earth & you will see how logical the route was & there is even a vestigial tail on the roundabout at the end of Westfaling St & Wordsworth Road to take the new route.

 

There...it's all out now!!!

Very interesting reading, thanks for that, just had a look on google earth and yes your right.

I fully agree with Colin's reply above. He has explained it perfectly, nobody can be blamed here that's just a load of rubbish and is just an escape goat on behalf of BR.

 

If other councillors choose not to join the site, then that can only be down to them, what do they fear? as someone has already said, are these elected councillors not professional then? they refuse to join because they possibly object to another councillor being on here? how pathetic and child like! They should rise above all of that and contribute in helping out, answering questions where they can, giving information to their constituents and not worrying about someone else.

 

Quite happy to canvas for our votes though and they will be sniffing around come next May, of that I am sure.

 

This site could be very useful to them, I am finding it very useful myself.

 

Roger it seems that you have some other issues with Cllr Powell as you are constantly moaning about her. To be fair to her she has tried very hard to help and advise on here and I appreciate that.

I couldn't agree more.

Can we not get back to normal service here as this topic is getting a little boring, if the other councillors want to put up their childish little protest instead of serving their community on here then let them carry on, how pathetically sad. :Thumbs-Down:

Thanks for the info Rebecca,.Just had a look at the download for allowances, which makes interesting reading. If we do take cllr Edwards as an example, his 'Travel expenses' for 09/10 states £758.20=£63.18 each month.....hmmm...for the man who wants to be known as 'the cllr on a bike' seems to me that pedal power has suddenly become very expensive!?

Also can anyone shed light on what 'Special responsibility allowance is?

But all this money is for his role as district councillor, not parish, so he must use other transport then (bigger area)?

I personally think that it's a poor show that he has not even registered here, speaks volumes to me that does.

Welcome aboard, its nice to see you here.

If they catch the perpetrator he should be prosecuted to the letter! that is disgusting.

You could of borrowed my zoom lens Colin the picture would of been that much better, great pictures all the same, keep up the good work.

Yes part time traffic lights is a good idea too.

This is such a shame and in stark contrast to the beautiful pictures taken before of the lake. The picture of the heron in flight was so nice to see, why do some people have to ruin it? Makes me sad.. :Sad_32:

Yes some people are just out to cause trouble I have read through some of the posts and the same people keep repeating themselves, yes it is sad. Make a point of course, but that's it.

Where are these tyres actually at the poolside?

It is also a sad day when you have exactly the same ip address as lpusseycat, Listen I have administered many forums and websites for over 15 years, I am not stupid! but you are obviously unaware of what I can see for each member.your both using AOL too, very strange. You are both ipusseycat and footballboy, now how SAD is that!!