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Three supermarkets within a mile on the busiest & congested road in Hereford 🙄

Local planning officer said ......   An update from the council's transport manager confirmed that “no capacity issues are shown to occur” on the A465 even in a “worst-case scenario”, due to the “generous” new planned lane for cars turning in to the supermarket.
Is this person taking the P**s

On 20/01/2024 at 19:30, Hereford Voice said:

We are reassured and more than confident that this will go to full planning committee in the coming weeks, however, we predict that the latest Lidl planning application for the Three Counties Hotel site will be approved in the coming weeks from what we hear on the grapevine..

You can see our original 'Breaking News' article from March 2022 here 👉 https://hfd.news/Lidl3 

The Local Highway Authority also submitted a memorandum on 20th December 2023 (attached) explaining that the had no objections (with conditions)

Following the redesign of the central area of the car park the local highway authority has no objection to the application subject to the below conditions.

Conditions: CAB (2.4m x 43m), CAD Gates/barriers (setback 7m), CAE, CAJ (car parking to be provided in full prior to store opening), CAP (as per dwg 05 rev G by Corun), CAT, CB3

Informatives: I11, I09, I45, I08, I05, I14, I49, I54, I52, I51, I47, I37, I36, I35

Hereford City Council submitted their comments one 12th January 2024 stating that they have no objections;

Dear Heather

Hereford City Council Planning Committee has no objection to planning application 231703 however have comments. Whilst Councillors regret the loss of this hotel and tourism facility, they appreciate the need for an economy food store and associated employment south of the river which will be popular with local residents. Councillors have considerable anxiety about another unregulated junction on an already busy road and feel the proposed design is not respectful of the local environment.

Kind regards

Becci O’Reilly

Administration & Events Manager

It is evident from the original application that the majority of objections on the planning portal is certainly not popular with local residents! Which is what this letter (attached) states....

We had a petition signed from over a thousand local people as well as over 228 objections, which like ourselves was down to the main concerns over traffic congestion and safety of people using the notorious A465 Belmont Road. There were just 12 letters submitted in support of the application.

The original application was withdrawn and a new updated application was submitted in June 2023 (P231703/F).

This next part is interesting, Did you know? ALL of the original letters of objection and support together with a petition with over 1,000 signatures against the application cannot be taken into account even though the overall application is more or less the same - 'Demolishing the Hotel and building a Lidl supermarket' (We appreciate that the drive-thru coffee shop was removed and a few other tweaks made to the new application). We are confident that planning consultants know how to work the system because now the letters of objection or support are clearly going to be hugely diluted, which is the case with 41 objections and 10 letters in support as of the time of this topic 20th January 2024. 🤔 

The A465 Belmont Road is renowned for daily traffic congestion. There is also a speed enforcement camera located directly opposite the entrance to the hotel which was installed for a reason! 

It will be interesting to see how this develops and we will highlight these issues which are only going to become much much worse with this development. A more suitable location would have been at Rotherwas in our view. 

Local Highway Authority.pdf 77.65 kB · 19 downloads

Hereford City Council Comments.pdf 387.62 kB · 18 downloads

 

The only place it should be

The clowns are working extra hard with this one.
A road that stops at the bottom of Ledbury Road and not the A4103 that's only there for the houses that are being built next to it in Tupsley & the houses to be 

built at Lower Bullingham. 

Councillors come up with some incredible excuses to do things but this is right up there with the worst.
Can you not see this is 100% to do with vehicle restrictions around the City and the soon to be installation of traffic cameras to catch the
motorist out.
You could mow down and kill more people in a Morrisons or Sainsburys car park than the Centre of Hereford.

Who is he, where did he come from ?

These firms especially the ones who know they will get the contracts must think of a number, double it and then  stick a 'lets rob the bstrds' £50,000 bonus on top

Is that from te same fire

On 30/08/2023 at 10:11, Hereford Voice said:

📢 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 09:36 | From Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service - At 08:05 Holmer Rd Hereford. Five fire engines, aerial ladder platform, water carrier, drone, and incident command unit in attendance at fire involving industrial unit. Crews using four breathing apparatus, two hose reel jets. 

On 30/05/2023 at 14:22, twowheelsgood said:

Part 2 of the ongoing 'you just can't make it up' saga of this debacle - following on from the March remedial works (which didn't seem to achieve much, save for making things worse, including leaving open trenches in the cyclepath), local St James residents have had another letter from BBLP, advising that they will 'be delivering the remaining remedial works required for the scheme'. Works will commence on Tuesday 6 June and will take approximately NINE WEEKS to complete (the original contract was 16 weeks) - that's some sort of remedial list. They claim it will be at 'no additional cost to Herefordshire Council or the taxpayer' but I cannot believe that.

This was a complete failure on Harrington's watch - people with huge experience of cycling infra (certainly not BBLP) advised him it would fail but he would not listen and he paid the price. However, we are left with something that wasn't asked for, was changed from the agreed scheme with stakeholders and does not work, even when or if it's built properly. There have been numerous very close misses and several collisions at the Cantilupe Street junction, albeit that's down to poor driving, but it should have been designed out and should never have got through the safety audit. It's cost an obscene amount of our money and stands as a folly to those who put political aspirations before common sense.

 

I have been watching these clowns daily . 90% of the time nothing is being done and the workforce can be seen in the cabin by side of road most of the time.
Took them over three weeks to lay a few anti slip tiles and a bit of temp tarmac.

 

On 27/05/2023 at 19:26, twowheelsgood said:

This was budgeted at £55k in the linked report, so more than twice over budget before it's even started ... how do Property Services get it so wrong? Was this an open tender, or is there only one local builder?

Firms like these see pound signs in their eyes when guestimating how much to charge. 130k is a joke

Its a shame that Jeremy Milln had to pull out due to illness. Thee only Councillor that I have messaged over the last four years that responded and took 
positive action on issues. 

Pic showing the extent of silt build up on other side of bridge that still needs addressing 

On 06/05/2023 at 18:25, twowheelsgood said:

So who wants power enough to jump into bed with the conservatives to give them a majority? History says the Lib Dems - 6 out of the 12 elected would be enough. Will they stick together as one party or not or will some of the so-called 'independents' succumb?

Cannot think of one Conservative that would want any Ind coalition .. Me neither

Picture of it now.  The EA are a farce .
 

Watermark the pics Colin

And this is how to turn it off 

On 09/03/2023 at 07:58, Libby said:

If the government was processing asylum seekers within reasonable timescales it wouldn't need to house them in hotels. We should have sympathy for those who have had to flee their homes, now stuck in temporary accommodation and having to live with so much uncertainty. A bit more compassion from all - not least the government - please.

Oh come on Libby, they are fleeing from France. Last time I looked there was no war or persecution there.
I'm all for helping genuine asylum seekers but most crossing the Channel are economic migrants with 90% being men. Ever wondered why there are hardly any Women fleeing persecution and war.
Ever thought why they are being put up in the most deprived area of the City too ?

Other Cities have realised this is another great way of reducing the need for people to use a car etc.
 We need competent Councilors with much better foresight and vision for our City,something lacking with most of them.

Sabotage !!! 

Yes, but this Council are so behind the times it will be years and a change in Councillors to make a trial happen .
 

What was wrong with the viewpoint?
Waits for parking charges to go up

Just read that they are to put a priority bus lane down newmarket / blueschool street like what the hell is that going to do with vehicles wanting to go down Commercial road  & to the places like the hospital etc. 
You've god mad Harrington absolutely stark raving mad.

Climate change or the hundreds of thousands of homes that have been built along and around it in those years.