Aylestone Voice

There are plenty of shops available for people to open up a new business such as a bakery.

If you attend this you may also like to wander into High Town afterwards and see images of the Herefordshire Regiment from WW1 projected onto Lloyds Bank This will be on 8 & 9 May between 9.00pm and 11.00pm

Apologies - The IOC manifesto refers only to an eastern river crossing - not a by pass at all. Presumably if deemed viable this would go from the end of the Rotherwas relief road to where..? Certainly not to the A49 north of the city I guess. Actually I use a car maybe once a week on average but my walking and cycling trips would be easier and safer if all those cars that did not have to go through the city centre went elsewhere.

Being cynical I wonder about the IOC policy on this The technical evidence against a by pass may be there but I guess the vast majority of residents believe that a by pass is necessary. My recollection is that IOC were previously, based on the evidence, firmly against any by pass. Amanda correctly points out that the eastern route option is now in the IOC manifesto but also adds that there will an evaluation. Have they included the possible promise of a by pass to the east as a political manoeuvre just to win votes but if they win control will evaluate it out?

I would like to hear both sides before the full scale "witch hunt" is set in motion. One thing has always intrigued me though about dogs (and I do like them). Why do owners feel they have the right to exercise their pets on any piece of private land they choose. The field my have been, or not, empty of livestock but if it does not belong to the dog owner why is he there? That said there is no excuse for running over/hitting a dog deliberately with a vehicle

A nice thought but also going for a tab at the OLM Costa maybe a step too far. For a number on here the OLM is equivalent to hell on earth and they would probably turn to stone if they visited I can envisage Bobby47 outside the Wellington swaying from side to side - one part of him wanting another shot of caffeine and another part pulling him away from the "antichrist" shopping centre If only Two Wheels Good could pluck up the courage he could use the excellent cycle parking stands and have a coffee whilst watching over his bike :Happy_32:

I stand to be corrected but was not the plan for the eastern route to go only as far as the A438 Ledbury road and not across the meadows to the Worcester road and on to the A49

Wye Valley NHS Trust - planning application for temporary 16 bed adult acute ward - P151135/F

Given that the photo was taken in January does anyone know what it is like today?

I hardly ever get a problem with it Occasionally documents in the planning application section don't load first time Well I guess one problem is the failure to keep sections up to date

TWG - sorry for the somewhat stroppy reply

TWG - obviously not as it has not been a house for donkeys years. That said if we included all the empty office space, which potentially can be done, then the vacancy number could be even more significant. But if you were asking me about the sale - how the hell would I know?

HC calculated in Sept 2014 that there were 723 empty houses in the County

Perhaps I should have added this to my post?

I guess a ring road to the west would have allowed them to avoid the city on their way to the market and the local traffic would not have been so delayed

Anybody going to the meeting tonight?

For balance - a slightly older group http://www.herefordlibdems.com

Wow Amanda you "loathe" Cargill. Well done! Now I don't eat their products but I recognise the long standing contribution they make to the economy of the County and also acknowledge the problems that often arise I hope you are making your loathing clear in your election publicity? As the factory is in your ward and assuming you are elected I would like to be a fly on the wall when they ask you for a meeting on an issue that affects them. What do you say - "I loath you and that's it"? How far does your loathing go - close the factory and all the poultry farms? Sorry Colin - I know it should be on a different thread

I am all in favour of a study into the viability. However in an ideal world the section running north from the Bulmers access gate at Widemarsh Common would be better utilised for its original purpose which was transporting cider by rail. That would get rid of some lorries on the roads. Of course if you can run a tram on or next to the railway then so much the better. If Bulmers can be persuaded then also perhaps so could Cargill - that is if they stay given IOC's "veiled" opposition to intensive farming systems :Winky:

Dippy - I am not convinced that any of the existing councillors (Cabinet or otherwise) are in it for either themselves or their cronies. You may not believe what they have done is in the best interests of the County but that is different to them being on the make. That said I do not know who I will vote for but I am certain about this - I will be voting for whom I think is the best candidate in my ward and who has the ability to deal with the ongoing strategic issues that we face because of the lack of money and not their particular party. I feel that just voting, as a knee jerk reaction, for IOC or indeed any other party is not necessarily the right way to go I see one of the IOC candidates is the former Chief Executive of the City Council (Charles Willis). What Wirral would have made of him is best left unsaid.

Oh absolutely After all none of the others standing are local people

You can find maps of the ward boundaries on the Council's website as is the list of candidates (also elsewhere on here) It was the Boundary Commission who revised the ward boundaries and the rationale is on their website Far better in my view that we have only one councillor per ward - easier to know who to contact and cheaper. If some existing Councillors fall by the wayside then so be it (Awaits narky comments from Grid Knocker as usual!!!)

Before everyone gets completely carried away, for myself I do support the idea in principle as a good sustainability measure but I would not want my taxes to be used on a project that will only be used by half a dozen people So yes it is a good idea but there does need to be a detailed feasibility to see that it would be worth the money

I understand that the Council will publish the full list of candidates on 10 April. Going by the flow on here perhaps they should only publish the list of IOC candidates

To have a park and ride you really must have a dedicated bus lane. People tend to not use park and ride if they just have to sit on a bus in a queue of traffic - they may as well stay in their car. So for a park and ride at Grafton you need to add another lane to the A49 into the city centre or take away one of the existing lanes. If you can get a tram from a P & R car park to GWW then that might work