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The Independent today: A magnificent gesture - a real human being.

Planning Practice Guidance Conserving and enhancing the historic environment - Non-designated heritage assets Don't Councillors read this information and act on it? and What is a material planning consideration? ie The scope of what can constitute a material consideration is very wide and so the courts often do not indicate what cannot be a material consideration. However, in general they have taken the view that planning is concerned with land use in the public interest. So that would rule out the private interests of a cabinet with 7 members?

Useful information here: Welcome to the home of the National Planning Policy Framework for England and planning practice guidance. For the first time, planning practice guidance is easily accessible and available online at http://planningguidance.planningportal.gov.uk/

The Independent - Jonathan Brown - Friday 30 May 2014 God save Whitby village green from the Supreme Court This should read “by right†they did not do so “as of right†Bad news for our future generations. The government has sold off the school playing fields and now they are looking at our civic open spaces. Is there no end to what they want to sell off. Watch out - it will be your children next. This will give carte blanche to developers, and that includes Registered Social Landlords ie Herefordshire Housing to build over all our established green areas.

Yet Jesse Norman says the bypass can go east and save lots of money (see post 15). But we wouldn't want that would we? Neighbourhood plans are all the vogue at the moment. Plenty of rural parishes jumping in and having a say what happens in their patch. Do not see any action for the parish of Hereford City. Don't they think that anyone lives here or does the world end at Ledbury Cllr Bramer?

BBC H&W News 29th May 2014: I wonder if anyone from HC will be involved in this set up? Read the mantra here as a result of the government's tranformation agenda.

Hereford Times: Friday 30th May 2014 in News By Bill Tanner This seems to have caused a lot of mirth on the HT comments. Is this the same man who wanted to cut the library service last year?

Extract from the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Section 215 Best Practice Guidance Pity this is only aimed at private individuals. A shame that the Council doesn't follow this guidance for the eyesores they create and that includes the fire ruined buildings in High Town. The powers who draw up this advice always fail to close the loopholes which allow public bodies to carry on in this manner.

No I was thinking more about the situation within housing. I would have thought there could be a conflict regarding social housing and private property lettings. Regarding driving on the roads for a living, many of us do. I believe there has been a rapid growth in licensed taxis over the last five years. How many taxis block Bewell Street everyday? Who can afford them with the Council cutting subsidies on buses. I stick to my bike to get through this city easily. When you look through the councillors' interests, many declare no interests at all. Maybe that's why the city lacks any imaginative movement.

Appears to be a clash of interests here:

Council News 28 May 2014 I imagine there will be some new faces on Planning Committee for the Fire Station application when it comes up. Hope they are up to speed on what is going on or will they follow the officers advice. What do you think?

Wednesday 28th May 2014 in Hereford Times News By Bill Tanner:

Maybe we can put Booby on the chain gang if he goes inside.

Council expenditure paid out in April 2014 £10,941,523.37 (14 items over £100,000) totaling £5,685,770.86 taking 51% of the monthly expenditure. April 2014 £ 817,914.83 Worcestershire County Council 667,420.04 Kier Construction - Central Div of Kier Construction Ltd 663,520.47 Worcestershire County Council 583,497.00 Halo Leisure Services Ltd 562,512.00 Integral UK Ltd 417,917.66 Thomas Vale Construction Plc 407,941.34 Kier Construction - Central Div of Kier Construction Ltd 397,583.34 Hoople Ltd 240,214.00 University of Cambridge (UCLES) 238,864.49 Whitecross@Stepnell Ltd 236,560.80 Worcestershire County Council 220,323.95 2Gether NHS Foundation Trust 125,872.00 2Gether NHS Foundation Trust 105,628.94 Hereford Futures Ltd £5,685,770.86 also May 2014 Contracts register available: Contracts over £1,000,000 £227,500,000 Mercia Waste Management 23/12/1998 to 01/12/2023 £200,000,000 Balfour Beatty Living Places 01/09/2013 to 31/08/2023 £28,000,000 Focsa (UK) Ltd 01/11/2009 to 01/11/2016 £6,000,000 NRS Healthcare 01/04/2014 to 31/03/2018 £4,380,812 Shaw Healthcare 01/08/2004 to 31/07/2029 £3,300,000 Vision Links Herefordshire 01/04/2014 to 31/03/2016 £2,264,000 West Mercia Homes Ltd 01/04/2013 to 31/03/2018 £2,099,503 Integral UK 01/09/2013 to 31/08/2016 £1,658,849 Midland Heart 08/08/2008 to 31/08/2015 £1,700,000 Two 2Gether Foundation Trust 31/03/2011 to 31/03/2014 £1,107,014 Festival Housing 01/10/2012 to 01/10/2014 £1,097,730 Kemble Care 29/11/1999 to 31/03/2014 £1,000,000 ategi Limited 01/04/2014 to 31/03/2017

Council Newsroom 27 May 2014

These were taken in Muir Close: In this one the grass behaind has been cut by Muir Housing Association

The family went to see the robot today. Here is what they saw. https://www.dropbox.com/s/me0qvbanhrwawun/20140526_162220.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8cceqlpajnqwq9/20140526_162602.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ub88qeten6hvxg/20140526_162415.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecx5hb1a69a722y/20140526_162820.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/zc98mvu9oulhvms/20140526_163102.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/d13lsry3u9f8r8t/20140526_163342.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/1pkk71t0d1yuly0/20140526_163711.mp4 https://www.dropbox.com/s/sjdr4f0kkntoc92/20140526_163430.mp4

No they are there - you just can't see them in the long grass!

Read up on the Marches Local Enterprise Partnership and see that we are well and truly part of this EU inspired unelected quango. This is the organisation that is already bidding for money from the government through the EU and deciding where it will be spent.

William Pulling William Pulling and Co were important Cider Merchants and Gin Distillers in Hereford from 1813 to1979. When the business was sold in the early 1980s they left 150 years of invoices, letters, bank books and ledgers. Some were thrown out, but a large number survive. These are currently being catalogued by volunteers in the Cider Museum. They include good records for the 1820s, 1840s to 1860s, the 1890s and 1920s. Societies which Mr Pulling was associated with: Herefordshire and District Working Boys Home (1887, 1888) William Pulling began as a cider merchant and extended his interests into river transport, the bark and slate trade and finally, into one of the biggest drinks trades in the region. He began making gin in 1813 and continued until 1939, using the same stills but different recipes, finally developing the Hereford Dry Gin brand. Come as see how gin was made in Hereford The Pulling Exhibition is running April 23rd to end of October 2014. The Cider Museum, Pomona Place, Hereford HR4 0EF

Came across this ditty which may make you laugh. They appear to take the p*** out of a lot of everyday activities including booking a low cost flight.

BBC H&W Radio: 23 May 2014 I bet they will have an ATM on this site. I thought the OLM was the only shopping centre to open in 2014. The leader of the authority, Kuldip Sahota is also on the board of the Marches LEP and making a claim that Telford (a town) will become the regional centre. So where does that leave Hereford (a city) - on the fringes?

The Independent Sunday 25 May 2014 Be careful what you say Councillors - it could turn nasty!

I posted this last year and it still holds up today. Update: The only grass being cut at the moment to any standard is that owned by Herefordshire Housing.

I agree, but there is a point of local democracy being removed form the area and decisions made elsewhere. Someone on here said that all the city decisions are made by councillors who live elsewhere in the county. So imagine what it will be like when the LEP, Westminter or the EU are telling what we should be doing. They can't even tell the difference between Hereford and Hertford.