Alex

They are ALWAYS there! Druggies too, every time I go past there is usually a few drinkers or druggies there and it looks terrible.

Screwfix is open and has been for several weeks.

Who are the directors and the main shareholders?

I think Cllr Nick Nenaditch is one...

Thank you I was about to reply but it would not have been so polite.  I don't like being duh'ed!!!"

Well it was not meant to taken personally, I was merely pointing out the OBVIOUS reason behind putting the barbed wire across the top of this fence. I am aware of the law I am not sure this qualifies because where Glastonbury Close is at the back of the hotel it used to be fields and the hotel and the fencing at the back was definitely there way before Glastonbury Close, the reason I know this is my uncle has lived in Golden Post for over 40 years and we were only recently discussing the corn field that used to be there. So if the hotel was there before the Close why should this law apply and what is the purpose of barbed wire anyway?

I did not think you were allowed to put barbed wire across the top of a fence!  This is in case some bad boy/girl tries to climb over and harms theirselves

Duh! That's the idea surely...

1.30am? You'll be pushed to find anywhere after midnight - hell, the other weekend I couldn't even get a Subway at 11pm on a Saturday night!

 

People don't want "hot" food, they just want food, so if there are no burgers or kebabs about, it's a trip to the petrol station of sandwich place as you say.

 

As a related aside - didn't government pass a law that allowed 24/hr pubs? I see Horrorford stayed well clear of that one.

Again they cited violence, but studies and evidence shows that violence is significantly reduced as you don't have a mass kick out with 24/hr licencing

I am glad that this debate has popped back up. Colin can you start a campaign for Hereford to get this stupid local curfew changed especially as there is no mass kick out these days like Biomech has stated above and I know you have stated this in the past. I could start one myself but I would not know where to begin and HV is the ideal platform to highlight how far out of touch this council really is. I have always supported CVP in the majority of issues that she has been working hard on but I cannot support her stance on this, I appreciate what CVP has said, that it was not her vote alone, so she is not at blame here but I am quite surprised at her voting for his personally as she normally puts local business's first.

This is a stupid curfew and clearly does not work either! No wonder the HT made Colin James letter a 'Star Letter' on the issue, this council should start supporting this city and its traders especially now the new shopping centre is not far from opening, it's going to be even tougher for those in the city centre. If I want to order a takeaway at 2.15am after a good night out with friends then quite frankly, I should be able to do just that!

Candidates?

My mate lives in Kingstone and speeds are terrible there and this is 2014!

I have to agree with Bill, yes there are cut backs all over the country, but that would not happen in Hereford because our A&E is open 24/7. read the name of this website HEREFORD VOICE, that means news pertaining to HEREFORDSHIRE!

I had the same thoughts but it was posted in the open forum so i guess that's okay..

Love Wagamama can't wait now     

Hinton Hitman, I totally agree with your first sentence about ensuring the law is applied in every licenced premises and the licencee is responsible for what goes on in their clubs and pubs. In regard to McDonalds clearing up outside their premises they volunteered to do that.

In regard to your coments about myself:-

1. I do not eat curry because I am alergic to spices.

2. I do drink alcohol.

3. I do attend meetings in pubs.

If you knew me which you obviously do not.

1. I am not small minded.

2. I do not have an over inflated opinion of myself.

 

I would take more notice of what you say if you were courageous enough to come on here under your own name, instead of hiding behind an avatar!

 

Alex, the rules of the regulatory committee is changing in regard to licencing, and for the record I was one of the councillors who allowed the public house in Eign road to re-open after the stabbing!

With respect CVP we are not talking about re opening the pub after the stabbing?? We are talking about being able to purchase hot food after 1.30am. I would like to know where you stand on this as per my previous questions:

So your not supporting getting this silly rule changed now then? What utter rubbish Cllr! You can still stop in at the Lunchbox, Tesco's or any number of garages on your way home, so what's the difference to being able to buy hot food from a take-away or even allowing deliveries to still continue? I feel really quite strong about this to be honest, so can you clarify where you are with this rule please Councillor Vaughan-Powell? Are you in favour of leaving it as it is or are you in support of relaxing this rule now that licensing laws are much more relaxed nowadays and the original problem of lots of people all conversing outside the local chipper have now long gone because people leave clubs and bars at various times throughout the night?

 

I am likely to get my head shot off with many of you by what I am going to say. I am a member of the Regulatory committee who deals with licencing among other things, the restriction was asked for by the police, as a member of that committee I had the opportunity last year of going out with the police on a Friday/Saturday/Sunday in Hereford, other members went to Leominster, Ledbury, Bromyard and Ross, it was quite an eye opener where some people caused distruption and trouble being so drunk when they came out of clubs and pubs etc. We do not change the rules on a whim but with concrete evidence where people do not know when to stop drinking and all the problems they present, and yes before you say it, a few spoils it for the many, after witnessing the problems for myself I can understand why the police want every one off the streets and on their way home as quickly as possible.

So your not supporting getting this silly rule changed now then? What utter rubbish Cllr! You can still stop in at the Lunchbox, Tesco's or any number of garages on your way home, so what's the difference to being able to buy hot food from a take-away or even allowing deliveries to still continue? I feel really quite strong about this to be honest, so can you clarify where you are with this rule please CVP? Are you in favour of leaving it as it is or are you in support of relaxing this rule now that licensing laws are much more relaxed nowadays and the original problem of lots of people all conversing outside the local chipper have now long gone because people leave clubs and bars at various times throughout the night?

I managed to get a curry at 2.40am! Get in!      

Now that's what I should be able to do EVERY WEEKEND! Common Councillors PLEASE put some pressure on to get this stupid licensing changed, especially now that we have the more relaxed licensing laws in recent years, it would also go some way to encouraging young people to stay in Hereford. 

Bit of lateral thinking coming up here, peeps.  Probably far and away too sensible to ever get beyond first base when the Plough Lane suits take a look at it.

 

TKMax is emigrating across the road to the Edgar Street Grid.  The liquidator is going to have a hellava job finding a new anchor tenant for the vacated two-level space, yet Maylords without a powerful anchor will shrivel on the vine (sorry, I've got a feeling that there's three mixed metaphors in there already!).  Right, ready?

 

Offer the space to Herefordshire Council to fit out at its own expense as a new City Library (the Victorian building in Broad Street could eventually be turned into a full-scale Museum, Art Gallery & Visitor Centre with a whole gallery dedidicated to poor old Brian Hatton, whose family got well and truly stuffed some years ago when the gallery they'd paid to have built up in Churchill Gardens was closed by the Council).  Good civic libraries are hugely successful anchors: take a look at Cardiff or see the crowds who flock into Worcester's wonderful Hive.

 

Comments please?

Sorry but this is a shopping centre smack bang in the middle of our city and in my opinion should be kept as one! A library oh yes that will please all of the other surrounding stores like Wilco... They should of took over the old tax office in Broad St right next door to the Museum, this would of been the perfect building, you could of then turned the current Museum/Library into this good idea of a visitors centre but I just don't like the idea of the library going into Maylord Orchards. 

I never knew that, thanks you for the heads up 

It works in Bristol. It will work if they want it to work or would you prefer disabled or mums with buggies/prams crossing the main ring road as it stands ?

I have seen fully covered footbridges in other cities and it's a no brainer in my opinion, Colin is smack on with this idea and why Hereford never adopted this I will never know, the city is disjointed for sure. Thank you to megilleland for providing the images.

 

 

Not sure what the status of the buildings are, but being in a conservation area, the council must have duties to protect them? See here for Hereford City Central Area conservation area. The Hereford City Central Area map is here.

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe a councillor could delve into what is going on and tell us the current plans for the site and timeline?

 

I will probably get slammed for this but... this is the problem with Hereford oh lets save this building oh and lets save this black and white wall and this special medieval window, I really wish this lot had burned to the ground, I really do because by now we would of had a nice new modern building, instead of the monstrosity still hanging by a thread waiting for someone to start working on it. Nobody wants it! And even when it is finally restored it will continue to be listed and no future tenant will want to touch these buildings with a barge pole and who can blame them? More hassle than they are worth add this to the Hereford Council rates and bam! Welcome to Hereford's ghost town. They have also ruined what could of been a spectacular new shopping centre, it looks just like the old cattle market, pig sheds! (I know this was their aim, so I hope they are happy with the brick shed we now have)

I think Jims intention is to set a date in the New Year!

Thanks dippy

When is the meeting peeps?

Let me be very clear about the priority that is needed for Hereford's road network - congestion reduction is absolutely essential if we are to get the traffic moving.  To deliver a by-pass will take a minimum of 20-30 years at a cost of hundreds of millions of pounds. The by-pass would facilitate 15% of the current traffic on the new bridge that is through traffic - the remaining 85% of the traffic would still remain.  What is more to deliver the by-pass, Herefordshire as a whole would need to build an absolute minimum of 16,500 houses (IOC believes that this figure would need to be well over 25,000 houses in reality) with at least 40% of these houses in and around Hereford City.  Let's be clear, the houses would come first and so would their cars.  And guess what? They would all be driving into Hereford too! So the houses that are needed to deliver a by-pass are the reason the by pass will not relieve the congestion experienced on a daily basis - and it would take decades to do it with a deteriorating congestion problem during that period.

 

There is no easy answer. The mantra of "let's build a by-pass" actually distracts from the real problem.

 

45% of the vehicles EVERY morning and EVERY evening are travelling less than 2 miles.  They start their journeys in Hereford and they end their journeys in Hereford - and at the moment who can blame them? Walking and cycling around Hereford every day is depressing!!!! The public realm is depressing! Pedestrians and cyclists are treated like second class citizens - shunted around huge junctions that have been designed ONLY for vehicles. The trees that might make things look a bit better are all being cut down and the routes don't connect with anything. No one has prioritised safer routes to school to maximise the chances that children can get there safely without the use of a car. An integrated transport system would tackle this problem at a tenth of the cost of a by-pass and would not necessitate us building vast numbers of houses for people from the south east to come and retire to (because in reality that is what will happen if we go down that route). 

 

This policy is NOT about saying cycle in from Kingstone! That would just be silly! It is about making options other than car use safe, clean, easy and quick to use for all of those journeys that can be done in 10-15 minutes and creating a culture where people are happy to chose to do it that way. Plenty of towns do it, we just need to focus our extremely limited resources in the right way.

 

And to all of those who insist that a by-pass will work for them, I suggest you will reach retirement age before it is delivered. 

 

Sorry - plain speaking from a plain speaking councillor. 

I for one Mark do not agree with those figures, I would suggest that the trough traffic is much much higher and has merely been dressed up this way. These figures are based on traffic coming from Cardiff to Manchester or Newport to Warrington, that's your 15%!

Lets have some real numbers here! So what about all the people driving from Kingstone to Leominster or Holme Lacy to Bromyard or Clehonger to Ledbury this also forms what is considered through traffic. 

I live in Belmont and deliver goods all over the midlands, I drop my wife at the college everyday then drive out of town, so really, I am also through traffic too.We are in desperate need of more houses and although you are suggesting that funding would come from the private sector for a bypass in the way of more houses, money should also come from central government for bypass and I would be in favour of an eastern bypass. 16000 house is far to high but I think a much lower number would be acceptable and would help towards the cost. We really do need another river crossing too!

Another good exclusive Colin, best decision made.

Its a no brainer for me, I have always been with Colin on this, turn them off!

Northbound traffic all last week was great, once you had got over the bridge the problem was driving back up Edgar St where the temp lights were. WHY have they got those there? Pointless, this is the only point wee there is a problem, can't they see that?

I clearly works Colin, keep up the good work with your traffic lights campaign, hopefully the council will see sense at some point and will at the very very least give it a trial as above or by turning them off for a few months. I totally and utterly agree that the main city traffic lights all round the ring roads could be made part-time like you have suggested and turned off at 7 or 8pm until 6am, thats a no brainer for me. 

Good to see that the bullies did not get their way. Well done Glenda Vaughan-Powell  

Yep I agree with that. Well done Glenda