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  1. How very dare you! I'm not embellishing anything. It's slap bang true. I got a thrashing too, because we weren't allowed on the shed roof. Those were the days! We fished with a bent pin stolen from mother's sewing box,(in those days you could bend some of them without breaking them) a bamboo cane stolen from Dad's garden shed, and discarded baler twine. What were we thinking?
  2. I fell off a shed roof into a bed of nettles wearing only swimming trunks on an extremely hot day in about 1959. I was about eight. My entire body was a cobbled street for about a day. It's true, honest, ask any of my five sisters or my twin brother. I can tell you it bloody well hurts, but not for long, so maybe Bobby should think of something more lasting, like....answers on a postcard to B47 c/o Underneath the Arches, Sustrans Bridge, Doggersland, Hereford City. The selected "method" wins a day out with Pat Morgan, visiting bus shelters.
  3. I was quoting Liz and the link is on her piece www.neattechnology.com
  4. "This plant is of the size and scale of that proposed by Herefordshire and Worcestershire and is built and working TODAY. It cost ~£60m to build – that’s a third of the price of the proposed incinerator at Hartlebury, and will generate more energy and reclaim more recyclable material from the waste it handles than the Hartlebury plant." Brilliant piece of work Liz. The only thing left to ask is...If it's good enough for Bristol now why do you mention it as not proven, too much of an unknown for a naturally cautious council? Bristol must be a "naturally cautious" council too, but they've committed to this scheme. Why not Herefordshire? Herefordshire even has a couple of years of breathing space to watch Bristol's adventure.
  5. Thank you Glenda. If Grid Knocker is right, and I have no reason to suggest he is not, there can be no case whatever for proceeding with this project now, or ever. If the Tories insist on it there should be some kind of obligation for the individuals who vote it through to pick up the bill themselves when it goes **** up, or at least a substantial fine. They have been told it's a bust by their own advisors so to run with it would be nothing short of irresponsible. Oh how I despise them, the arrogant fools that they are, but don't tell Nick "Nice" Nenadich I was horrid about them, he might burst into tears and storm out to find his teddy bear. According to the best web site ever, Herefordshire Council's, he's the Vice Chairman of Halo Services. Is that a service for polishing his I wonder?
  6. Please can the opposition get their ****s in a sock then. Stroll up to Sebastion and quote some Latin at him, give him an ipso facto or two followed by quo fas et gloria ducunt (that's not rude, ask Ubique, he knows what I'm on about) and tell him it's time to do the right thing by the people of Herefordshire, as you are all so keen to claim is your number one priority: that's Shire, not just city.
  7. It won't just be people from the SE though, will it? There's the EU to cater for as well. My friend Grid Knocker might consider that before writing off UKIP as the Monster Raving Loony Party.
  8. I admire a radical thinker more than words can say. This kind of scheme works in many places in Europe so there can be no excuse for not at least trying it. If it fails, no harm done. If it works, everyone's life is improved, permanently.
  9. I congratulate the villagers of Lugwardine on their victory, as described by Nigel Shore in the Hereford Times of December 5th. In his letter Mr Shore contends that some planning committee councillors expressed frustration that there is no five year housing land supply, which results in the “emasculation†of council decision making. It does, but who is to blame for that? The very same councillors who, despite repeated warnings from such bodies as the Hereford Civic Society and CPRE, have sat there twiddling their thumbs and abjectly failing to put a rocket under the managers responsible. I have asked Mr Ashcroft, via Alistair Neill, so he knows too, why there is no five year land supply. His incomprehensible answer can be seen on my web site www.broadernews.wordpress.com under “Ashcroft Answers (Various)â€. Councillors, get your senior officers under control. Ask the awkward questions, and if you don't get satisfactory answers, sack them. You are elected to be “quality control†Herefordshire County PLC so let's have some quality and some control. Nigel Shore makes reference to Neighbourhood Development Plans (NDPs) saying that building on green field sites will certainly not be favoured in their NDP. This is wishful thinking. NDPs do not have the authority to stop development, prevent it, look disfavourably upon it, or in any way contest the adopted Local Plan, when it eventually arrives, or the National Planning Policy Framework. I have worked endlessly to impress this point upon my own parish council, to no avail. NDPs are not a landscape defence mechanism. They are the opposite. They will, paradoxically, not increase local control, but reduce it because, once adopted, there will be no ability for many locals to object to any development approved by their NDP, which may have been drawn up and adopted by a tiny minority, the ones who actually bothered to take part in the drafting and who voted in the obligatory referendum. The process is protracted, complex, and to be legitimate and meaningful, must run a long and comprehensive consultation, involving, “reaching†a decent percentage of residents, something that Barbara Ferris has been pouring cold water on this week on the same page of the Hereford Times. On top of that, the Local Plan and the NPPF will trump the NDP at every appeal. NDPs are the planning equivalent of painting yourself into a corner, or mortgaging your future right to have many a say for the chance to have a single say now. It is planning bondage, not planning liberty. Interested parties should have a look at the Report of the Examination of the Cringleford plan which has just been through the inspection phase.http://www.cringlefordparishcouncil.gov.uk/neighbourhood.php They will see that where the residents of Cringleford have included such phrases as “will not be permittedâ€, or “a maximum ofâ€, the inspector has simply ruled them out. Where the residents have clearly been concerned about a particular issue and have recommended constraints in their NDP, the inspector has negated the intention by tacking “except to the extent that this would make needed development unviable†on to the end of the sentence. The promise of having your say is reneged upon by a single shard of planning speak. Nigel Shore's opinion that Lugwardine residents will actually have an effective say in what goes on in their locale is a commonly held view which I dispute. Again, Mr Ashcroft gives an incomprehensible answer when asked why his guidance notes are at odds with what his commissars are saying out there in the parishes, and again, it's on my web site. Interpretations of Ashcroft speak and counter arguments are welcomed. With thanks to Bobby and in the belief that these sites we all blog on actually get read by the target: councillors and officers alike. That's who my codswallop is aimed at anyway.
  10. What do people think of it? I can't stand this replacement for Hereford Matters (sort of) and I have told him so. Amazingly he has not deleted the conversation, yet, 11:00 4 Dec 13. We shall see. If he does, I'll whack it up here. What's a rest bite?
  11. Ffffffffffffffiona has changed the site. It used to show if comments had been made but now you have to tediously click on each new topic to see what's been said or click on the "News" button. Then the number of comments will be shown. Why did they fix something that wasn't broken?
  12. Right, I'm crashing this party. Am I welcome? For DH see http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/10849940.Coalition_offer__Independent_group_need_more_time_to_make_decision/ It's still there. It hasn't been deleted.
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