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Aylestone Voice

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  1. I think the Council have abandoned any pretence that they do anything else other than adult and children care (essential as that is).

    The roads are in an appalling condition and the state of the county as evidenced by these photos show that they are not bothered. There is a lot of talk but it is so cheap. We are paying twice for services - our HC tax pays for services that the Council have passed to the City Council  and which we now pay them for

    Whoever negotiated and/or signed the contract with BBLP should really be considering their position

    How anyone in the Shire Hall can defend all this is beyond me

  2. I do find it a bit sad that some people seem to find pleasure in the fact that businesses and jobs are not coming to/starting up in Hereford.

    Perhaps that is really what they want - a quiet backwater where the majority of the residents are old and retired?

  3. Actually I have had a few nice telephone conversations with Paul recently and when you talk with someone over the phone or face to face it is a lot different. It is like text message quite often the person reading the text can misinterpret it altogether and it is not always written the way it is conceived.  

    I was only drawing a comparison between the exchanges on this thread and on those which ultimately caused him to leave the forum - not that he was in any way involved in this thread.

  4. In my view the canal is a total waste of money. This little pressure group (Hereford & Gloucester Canal Society) has across the County and in Gloucestershire held developers to ransom to contribute towards building something that does not have planning permission and for which the economics are so dodgy that it will never be viable - pretty much like when it was first built. Having a water feature in the city centre (ESG housing area) would be fine but to think that boats will travel to and from Gloucester is utter nonsense. Time this group were shown the door.

  5. Shops or houses? Perhaps both.

    Let's consider the old Chadds units between the toy shop and the Kerry. Can anyone foresee the whole building being used as a shop? Not in my view. The best use would be to convert the upper floors to flats and leave the retail on the ground floor. Of course this should be happening across the city centre.

  6. Well you can argue that Colin should have perhaps titled his thread "Empty Units in the City Centre" rather than shops?

    That said :-

    14 was to be an amusement arcade,

    33 to be a money shop

    49 to be Papa Johns takeaway

    50 to be a restaurant

     

    Some of the units are so tatty (Eign Street) that surely no body would want them?

    Whilst rates and rents are an issue it seems that there is not a groundswell of local people wanting to open up small businesses

    I agree that those on the edge of the centre have a better future as residential?

  7. The farce of this now gets increases

    "The Great British Florist" has now opened up a shop on the ground floor of the new building in Blackfriars Street.

    All that money spent on new buildings for a school where there are now so few pupils that they have to look for alternative uses.

  8. One of the biggest problems is that the County has a relatively small population but a very high proportion of old people. As a consequence the vast majority of the income the Council receives is spent on social care. If we had a younger population the money the council gets would increase and there would be a reduced demand for social care. So sadly what assets there are have to be sold.

  9. Denise - the issue raised by TWG was about signs which is a planning enforcement issue and it was that I was commenting on. The Council have enough to do without worrying about a few insignificant (in my opinion) signs.

    Rather than commenting on here about how wrong the FC are if you have a problem with their charitable status etc. why do you not complain to the Charity Commission.

    I have little time for the FC but many on here seem to be obsessed.

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