Jump to content

Jim Kenyon

Members
  • Posts

    118
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    9

Everything posted by Jim Kenyon

  1. Simply well done guys as a pressure group and spring board for great idea's your right up there Keep the debate up!!
  2. This is a great idea we now have a river festival established we could create a carnival to go alongside this so we could celebrate all things hereford cider,ale,hops,beef let's get a team together to drive this forward Hereford city council have supported similar things. "Voice" folks let's make this happen!!
  3. Newton farm is an interesting ward no Tory standing two Indy's One lib dem and the infamous Jamal standing for It's Our County With one county council seat and two city council seats up for grabs this is a difficult one to call knowing all the candidates they all have strengths and weakness's good luck to you all !!!
  4. free parking for late night Xmas shopping and lights switch on was hard fought for and will hopefully encourage folks to spend their money in the city the 19th and 26th were just agreed after I put pressure on for every Wednesday in the run up to Xmas, Hereford city council have paid for the lights and the event to be put on originally in conjunction with the old market switch on it seems a shame they changed there date for there switch on without speaking to us "one city" and all that.
  5. This link road is about housing not roads or easing congestion if they really wanted to make a difference they would link Rotherwas to Hampton park road via a bridge that would be money well spent!!!!
  6. Unique all car parking revenues go to the council on the new site as well so it would cost the council in lost tickets sales I don't think the administration would go for that option because they would still have the old boys site to do something with as well my thoughts are bus station best alternative option, has anyone asked the residents of central ave what they want??
  7. Thanks for your views there are a lot of things to consider one being the retained firefighters must live within 5 mins of the station so moving it to far is an issue the fire service were told the bus station is not available for at least 5 years "I will explore this" moving forward we need a fit for purpose fire station in Hfd the current one is not. Please come up with some solutions not just for the fire station but what we do with bath street I will listen and push them forward if they are viable or try and explain if there not you want to be listened to this is your chance because rest assured if you don't the powers that be will push things through, folks so you know I don't sit on the planning committee but I can speak up for any sensible suggestions.
  8. Folks I sit on the hereford and Worcester fire authority there is a real need for a new station the old one is not fit for purpose especially with the second pump looking at becoming day crew plus they will need sleeping accommodation it could mean if they don't find an alternative quickly they may go back to the bath st option. I know there have been some alternative suggestions on this tread can I suggest you get behind one else the fight you have put up will be in vain I'm afraid to say my priority is to get a new station that is fit for purpose with the changing in crewing which keeps the fire cover in best shape possible, I would put that over the old boys school give me something to get behind which is viable and deliverable and I will support it.
  9. Strangely enough I've had an email today from the council to set up a meeting regarding this project for mid November I will happily report back to this forum then.
  10. Brilliant news for the city just a shame the jailhouse has just announced it will be closing after Xmas one step forward and all that!!!
  11. Guys I've been pretty quite on Hereford voice of recent as I have been up to my eyeballs I have to choose my words carefully about this tread but I will say I asked for this to be scrutinised right at the beginning it was refused by cllr Bowen I have been accused of bullying council staff over the leases by a council officer "utter rubbish" I asked to see them,Tiny Johnson has shouted and been abusive towards me twice regarding this matter over the phone all very strange action when a councillor asks a question. I will be calling for a full internal investigation into the way the council has handled the whole matter no if no buts once we know the outcome of the next court case on dec 1st rest assured not all councillors are shrinking violets and some really do have "some balls" let's see who else supports me with the investigation, why not ask a few!!!
  12. We are still looking for helpers on the night if anyone can spare the time we are expecting a huge crowd so have geared up this year please contact me if you can either on the night or the day before when we are building the bonfire.
  13. Hi folks this is the reply I sent to dippy before reading the tread. Hi dippy this is a very frustration situation St. Paul church team are dealing with this the vicar left after being on sick leave with stress someone else took over they are waiting until they have raised all the funds to me they are going about it all the wrong way I have stayed away from the project for fear of throttling someone for dilly dialling sorry I can't throw any more light on this feel free to contact St. Paul's PCC Cheers Jim Ps Sally Hollingsworth has also stepped back from the project for the same reasons as me
  14. You can Report it to belfour Beatty direct the councillor you need is PAUL Rone
  15. Hi guys it was a great result that this application was approved we have managed to get £277,000 contributions to the locals schools £250,000 towards roads £68,000 towards off site recreation that will be shared between the quarry and Aylestone park all that was in danger if it had gone to appeal, we could have ended up with nothing the road scheme on Hampton dene Road and Ledbury road will be looked at I'm not sure if we have got enough to get rid of the lights but I'm going to have a good go.
  16. The cabinet are voting Thursday about transferring extra money into the grass cutting budget lets hope they make the right decision,then it's not about throwing money about but spending it wisely for maxim effect and I have some ideas on that again let's make them listen they read this blog so please keep the pressure up guys.
  17. Flam there are no developers involved it would be something the community would find funding for and we would ask halo to run it generating an income to support other sports such as free swimming for kids.
  18. We are looking for a headline band to do a 30 min set to around 2000 people it will be a great event if interested or know someone who is up for it give me a shout!!!!
  19. I'm fed up with this grass issue I told Tony Johnson 4 weeks ago the way ahead to sort it this is my lastest email to PAUL Rone hopefully he can drive this into him as he is one of his own "Tory" Hi paul Good to catch up earlier this morning and excellent news on the additional monies coming in for pot hole repairs, can you please now lobby your leader to look into transferring some of the revenue budget set aside for Belfour Beatty roads and use it on the grounds maintenance,we all know about the grass but the hedges and trees are growing be it a slower rate but growing all the same,there are no scheduled works on any of that! we can't have trees looked after by residents unless there were very strict controls or we would quite quickly lose a lot of trees. Can I suggest a reasonable sum of £200,000 which could using the open book policy arrangements we have with BBLP go a long way and get fast results using local companies. Finally BBLP are still struggling with the contract what ever you are told by the company the blokes on the ground are the voices we need to be listening to and also the residents I was down to only every other person I bumped into this week mentioning the grass cutting. Please keep up the good work. Jim Finally with a different administration things would not have gone this far the sooner they are removed the better!
  20. I've been steady building evidence of need through 3 small consultations and will continue to do so I had an interesting email last week asking me for a meeting regarding the close circuit cycling track at the racecourse watch this space folks!!
  21. For what it's worth I'm all for giving it a go and I am proactively trying to get rid of the god awful lights on Ledbury road and replace them with a roundabout, the lights would stay but only as predestrian crossing demand lights. I spoke recently at a planning meeting at the county council on just that and the money to do it would come from development contributions "106 money" I know it's not what your aims are but there is a belief in the council that the only way to control traffic is by lights we need to break that habit and get some different traffic management ideas in the fore front of everyone's minds.
  22. The councillors me included will be having a full briefing on Tuesday at brockington towers, I will not be able to update you til at least the week after as I have a family bereavement to deal with so please be patience or perhaps one of the other councillors on here could update you.
  23. It would be a real shame if we lose our club it is symbolic of our great city after losing the racecourse it is now more important than ever we save our football club big things have to change on the board and some common sense businessmen need to get involved but the here and now is that if people rally behind it and we get to the end of the season there is a real chance to move forward I am donating a cask of beer from my brewery to the club each week which is what I can afford to do along with trying to attend or if I can't sending the gate fee if we could just all do a little it will save our club and good times will return. Finally if anyone from the new development reads this GET YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS NOW because you will benefit more than anyone if the club gets back to former glory's!!!
  24. He will look after his patch and be the first point of contact for councillors things will still be reported the same way to bblivingplaces but they will land on his desk,he phoned me today to say he got the job and I'm meeting him for a brew next week.
  25. Spent the morning in Tupsley with a the Belfour Beatty road and path "pot hole" inspector we identified 5x cat one pot holes AND they were fixed today we also marked up 15 x cat twos which they have 28 days to fix they are trying hard but there is a new way of thinking required most of the repairs are quick fixes not perminant I shared some of his frustrations and I have some ideas which make sence and in the long run would work better now the difficult job getting the council administration to listen. update folks all these repairs above have now been carried out and instead of "just kicking it in"large patches have been done so they should be good for many years we now have a locality manager for Hereford and I'm please to say it is mike who is a switched on guy that I'm looking forward to working with,mike was the chap that who used to inspect the roads he can now ensure repairs are made how he wants it doing not the old way.
×
×
  • Create New...