Aylestone Voice

Colin - Let's hope it stays open but there are many around the City who are dying for one of the Old Market stores to shut

The chance of an IOC candidate getting elected for South Herefordshire is less than zero and the same goes for Labour, UKIP and the flat earth society(Greens) The only possibility of upsetting the Jessie bandwagon would be for the Lib Dems but I guess they will have Lucy Hurds standing again. She has lost on countless occasions so a repeat seems most likely Anyway watching Jesse bumble his way through at the despatch box in the H o C is always good for a laugh. You could repeat this scenario for North Herefordshire but with different names - so expect Wiggin to continue to make a fool of himself in the H o C.

Because of the queues of cars I have often parked in the road and just walked in with my stuff without any problem.

The new path that has been completed from the Aylestone Hill junction towards the railway station is certainly wide enough for a shared cycleway/footpath

But all the cyclists will be on the cycleway?

Sorry this is off topic We will have so it seems three universities 1 Hereford University Centre ie Hereford & Ludlow College and University of Worcester 2 University of Wolverhampton at the Enterprise Zone 3 NMITE Look out Oxford and Cambridge we are catching up!!!!!

Why would the vote have gone any other way? Council policy is to go west. It is really only IOC who with their powerful and vociferous supporters from the Breinton area who want it to go east

Subtle!

Have just been out on my usual cycling route which includes the road from the Greenway to the Straight Mile at Rotherwas. The road also serves the BBLP depot. Interestingly the potholes that were there last week have been filled. And No! it is not just chuck some tarmac in a hole - they have resurfaced whole sections. Different rules apply it seems

I can now access the website. I know such changes take some getting used to but my first impression is that it is a bit clunky

I can only assume that after Doris Day local residents were concerned about it falling onto their houses although why I don't know? (I assume you would be relaxed about that ). I am told the tree was inspected by Gerry Ross Tree Surgeon either yesterday or today. Perhaps you had better ask him exactly what he recommended but with the age and lean of the tree the removal of some of the branches presumably cannot be a wholly bad and criminal thing?

They are not cutting it down I am told that it was inspected and there was little if any movement in the trunk. What they are doing is removing branches on the Mill Street side so at reduce the weight and reduce what pressure there might be pulling on the trunk As to its long term future who knows?

I support the Expo as well as the right to protest it. If the Courtyard were to close because it ran out of cash then perhaps making use of it for such an event when nothing else is on is worthwhile. Though I don't expect the Quakers quite see it that way

Just remember that legally applications for advert signs are judged on two issues - the impact on highway safety and the impact on amenity (including on the Conservation Area). Not necessarily what it says on the signs

I happened to watch Lincoln City v Ipswich Town on TV last night. At one point the camera pointed to the Lincoln fans. They were enjoying themselves taunting the Ipswich fans. The thing that caught my eye was the father holding up his young son who was joining in the chanting of "your support is f-c-ing s-it" Lovely standards football fans have

The ground floor shop area will be reduced in size and all the floors above will be flats. Perhaps Waterstones will be able to trade from just the ground floor?

So it looks as if Waterstones will be closing down

I have just walked by the play areas. They seem as busy as usual and nobody seems particularly disadvantaged by some of the facilities being out of use. Of course there is no real excuse for the lack of proper maintenance especially when children should be encouraged to take more exercise. However I noted some time in late 2016 that the Council had to place 5 children in care for a week and the cost, if memory serves, was £25,000. Setting aside what on the face of it is a grossly excessive cost to us all, it is to children and social care where the vast majority of the Council Tax goes. I agree that that we can all have a view about whether certain projects of the Council are wasteful or necessary. However If there have to be choices where should the money be spent? On repairing some play equipment or on social care? In the current financial climate and unless Saint Theresa changes course we cannot have both

Are you going to grass them up?

I agree that doing nothing is not an option Unless the City develops, as it has in the past, then it will stagnate and become overpopulated with older people (it is already heading that way). The social cost of supporting them will have to be met by a reducing number of those of working age. To me we do need more housing and jobs - which comes first is moot. And whilst altering peoples current fixation with the car is great I believe there needs to be a way of getting in and out of Rotherwas, going from the south of the city to the north and going east to west without going through the centre. This will need to be a road - yes with cycle and pedestrian links to and through the essential new housing. Yes we need to respect the environment in all of this but sometimes some small loss of fields to new development is the price that should be paid not just for progress but to also maintain the standards that we have now.

https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/development-control/planning-applications/details?id=164024&search-term=registered in the last 7 days&search-service=recent&search-source=items&search-item=registered in the last 7 days

You both need to move house or get a new computer!!!!!! https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/development-control/planning-application https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/development-control/planning-applications/details?id=163635&search=snead

Working fine over here

Having looked at the details it seems a sensible decision to me. Contrary to policy. I see that the family currently live next door where there is a family house and a large self contained annexe which provides, it seems to me, the necessary space for the daughter. Why then do they need a new free standing house? Perhaps they want to sell the existing house?

So long as my information is correct the only Councillor who voted agianst refusal was Councillor Shaw who represents Bromyard Bringsty Ward. Odd you may think? However he is also a Cabinet Support Member for corporate strategy and finance - which may explain it But if I have his voting wrong then I apologise