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  1. 1 hour ago, 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?

    Usually if the works are below £250k the tender process is done by the council’s service provider which if I’m not mistaken is Balfour Beatty? But it says above that the responsibility delivering works to be carried out is by the Capital Senior Project Manager within the spend budget of the Capital Building Improvement Programme is this a new job title which has been created or has it existed for some while?

     

    regarding the contract it seems the decision was made in March 2022 over a year ago? Could this be why the cost has gone up due to increased material costs etc?

    in regards to who the contractors are are we really surprised they seem to win a lot of tenders for council works maybe they know something we don’t in regards to winning these tenders?

  2. It’s seems that there are private security personnel patrolling around the Mayfair…who’s employing them & paying for it…is this not the job of the police to do?….another question is could this be the future for our streets on a Friday & Saturday night where private security firms deal with the anti social behavior that sometimes occurs on city streets at the weekend instead of the police?

  3. Incredible to think that energy companies can increase their prices even though they are making huge profits…ofgem in my opinion are not consumer friendly & is well past it’s sell by date…it is in need of replacing by a quango that works in the interests of consumers as well as making sure energy companies can be profitable,without ripping off their customers.

    this article explains how you can claim a grant from British Gas to help pay your energy costs if you are struggling to meet them & you don’t need to be a British Gas customer either I believe 

    https://apple.news/An1XTwul6QxyRIV39SdCLRA

    It is the failure of our politicians as to why our nation finds itself in a energy crises according to this article 

    https://apple.news/Anu-THMDHQ--bbVgCm4f-8g

  4. On 20/08/2022 at 16:07, Geologist said:

    This proposed development site is on a flood plain Figure 1. This is not an optimum development site and would be better utilised as a flood water retention zone for the downstream urban conurbation. The site has a natural tendency to flood during peak storms and could retain much more water if developed as a City Flood Retention Area as part of the Climate Emergency Measures. A new reservoir would also be much more beneficial for biodiversity off-setting impact elsewhere.

    I think this makes a lot of sense to use this area as a city flood retention area given that with climate change we need to be thinking how best we can utilize the water we get when we have flooding in regards to retaining it for future consumption during droughts etc instead of being too complacent with the abundance of rainfall we normally have given we may get less of it in future because of the changing climate 

    I also agree this is not an area which needs housing development given the boreholes & flooding the COE whom I believe own this land? Should be ashamed of themselves for wanting to do so given the environmental impact it will have on the water coursing in this area

  5. The 13th biggest land owner on the scrounge again why can’t they use their own funds to do good? As they very rarely put their hand in their own pockets even to restore their own properties in that they receive generous grants & funding through the likes of the national lottery heritage fund..don’t get me wrong it’s a costly business maintaining all those historical church building but I’d feel more sympathetic to their needs if there hierarchical leaders were not so aloof but actually practice what they preach to their dwindling congregation that of the teachings of Jesus

    8 minutes ago, Hereford Voice said:

    The project seeks to build on the work churches began in lockdown by providing a wide range of opportunities for people to make and sustain social connections. 

    You would of thought they would of started this sort of good works long before the lockdown even began? In helping the homeless the needy the poor the disadvantaged of societies fallen in connecting & engaging within the local communities of the diocese or maybe they are actually doing these things? & in actuality I’m jut oblivious to the good works they are doing?

  6. Tell them you want to pay for it on a weekly basis & if your in credit with them get it refunded & keep it by in a separate account & pay an amount each month into that account to meet your costs.

    personally I think we are being scammed by the energy companies & the government the energy companies are making record profits & with those profits the government are raking in big tax returns also the increased energy fuel costs is the biggest causes of inflation to my mind too…I also thinks it’s a way of reducing carbon emissions forcing people to use less by increasing the costs of buying it so it becomes unaffordable to most of the population….you have to ask what is the point of ofgem they are allowing this to happen.

    also the taxpayers will be subsidizing these energy companies come October when the government hands out money to people to help pay the cost of the rising energy costs… it’s a win win for the energy companies 

     

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  7. https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/20198864.drivers-targeted-raise-money-local-services/
     

    now I don’t have a problem with people who contravene the Highway Code being fined but where I do have a problem is bring in unnecessary parking charges to raise revenue it’s tantamount to racketeering in my opinion 

     

    Councilor Harrington 

    “A further £100,000 will go on plans to extend Hereford’s on-street pay-and-display parking areas, both in the areas covered and the rates charged.

    This will be used to develop a business case, draft the legal measures, and potentially install new ticket machines. The council expects the plan to yield £41,000 over two years.

    But the council insists the parking measures will be to “manage demand”, with income from the scheme “a consequence and not the purpose”.

    Coun Harrington said extending parking zones “will prevent residential streets from being clogged with commuter parking”.

    sorry John that’s absolutely boloney & you know it it’s a scam….so tell me when did Herefordshire council becoming a mafia organisation?

    So my opinion is I totally disagree with this & find it disappointing that you are even considering milking the almost empty udders of the cash cow paying Herefordshire taxpayers once again

    maybe if you didn’t go wasting our money in the first place you’d have no need to treat us with utter contempt by rinsing us the populace of this fair county out of or own hard earned earnings time & time again to waste time & time again!

  8. This looks likely to be pass a application for 3 dwellings in Broomy Hill on ground belonging to mr & mrs B Bushnell’s home who are one of the main brethren families in Hereford…one thing about a lot of these church leaders is you find as well as being good at preaching the word of the almighty from the pulpit they are extremely good at creating business opportunity’s for themselves something to be admired in a way really it’s a shame they don’t do more charitable Christian works within the local communities they are based from the wealth they have created from their business ventures? Or maybe they do we just don’t get to hear about it?

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    https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200142/planning_services/planning_application_search/details?id=203335&search-term=203335

     

     

  9. On 14/03/2022 at 09:05, Aylestone Voice said:

    So the planning application is for a change of use for another Brethren business spectrum products (UK) ltd which is run voluntary with all proceeds going to the regional brethren school which is a school for the members own children? Or does it except children from within the wider community?

     

     

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  10. Unfortunately I’ve had to cut & paste this as I was unable to upload the PDF file

    So here are all of the names of the 200 MP’s past & present who wrote to the charity commission in favor of the Plymouth Brethren receiving charitable status 


    Thank you for your request for information received by the Charity Commission 9 February 2022. You asked:
    “Can you tell me who were the
    Your request has been processed under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act
       2000 (FOIA).
    I confirm the Commission holds this information.
    The MPs who wrote to the Commission are as follows:
    Edward Leigh MP
    Jim Cunningham MP Jim Dobbin MP
    James Wharton MP Mark Durkan MP
    Nick Clegg MP Damian Collins MP Peter Aldous MP Alison Seabeck MP Greg Mulholland MP Karl McCartney JP MP Therese Coffey MP Nicky Morgan MP
    On track to meet your deadline?
    Visit www.gov.uk/charity-commission for help on filing your annual return and accounts
    t: 0300 066 9197 (General enquiries) w: www.gov.uk/charity-commission
    200 MPs who wrote to the commission after it
     initially refused to register the Preston Down Trust please.”
      
    John Denham MP Mark Prisk MP Richard Ottaway MP Jonathan Lord MP Oliver Heald MP Peter Bone MP William Hague MP Nick de Bois MP
    Ian Paisley MP
    Nick Hurd MP
    Robert Syms MP Gordon Henderson MP Andrew Jones MP Steve Brine MP
    Keith Simpson MP
    Jo Johnson MP Caroline Spelman MP David Amess MP Simon Reevell MP Julian Brazier MP Paul Blomfield MP George Howarth MP David Amess MP George Howarth MP Alec Shelbrooke MP Chris Skidmore MP Brian Binley MP Michael Gove MP Peter Luff MP
    Fiona Bruce MP
    Neil Carmichael MP Helen Grant MP Margaret Beckett MP Henry Smith MP Shailesh Vara MP Peter Lilley MP Lindsay Roy MP
    Bill Wiggin MP
    Ian Swales MP Therese Villiers MP
    Ed Milliband MP Michael Fabricant MP Lorrainne Fulbrook MP Damian Hinds MP
    Page 2 of 7

    Tobias Ellwood MP Claire Perry MP Andrew Bridgen MP David Laws MP
    David Blunkett MP Brian Donohoe MP Duncan Hames MP Daniel Kawczynski MP Henry Bellingham MP Tom Harris MP
    Chris Williamson MP
    Sajid Javid MP
    Marcus Jones MP
    Robert Buckland and Justin Tomlinson MP (joint letter)
    Amber Rudd MP Michael Connarty MP Stephen Barclay MP Jim Murphy MP Jeremy Hunt MP
    Priti Patel MP
    David Burrowes MP John Bercow MP Austin Mitchell MP Nigel Evans MP Mark Menzies MP
    Alan Johnson MP Alistair Burt MP
    John Stanley MP Jack Lopresti MP Nicholas Soames MP Jake Berry MP
    Esther McVey MP Richard Fuller MP Mike Crockart MP Wliiam McCrea MP Steven Pound MP Alex Cunningham MP Stephen Dorrell MP Greg Mulholland MP Nick Clegg MP James Paice MP John Whittingdale MP
    Page 3 of 7

    Oliver Colville MP Nick Boles MP
    Jim Shannon MP George Howarth MP Ben Bradshaw MP John Redwood MP Grant Shapps MP Andrew Tyrie MP Andrew Rossindel MP Jessica Lee MP
    Rob Wilson MP
    Joe Benton MP Norman Lamb MP Bob Blackman MP Steven Brine MP George Freeman MP Simon Burns MP Gregory Campbell MP Andrew Turner MP Pete Wishart MP Malcolm Bruce MP Margaret Ritchie MP Anne Main MP
    Kevan Jones MP
    Greg Clark MP
    Oliver Heald MP
    Malcolm Wicks
    Richard Fuller MP
    Chris Huhne MP
    Gavin Barwell MP
    Geoffrey Clinton Brown MP Mark Hunter MP
    Julian Huppert MP
    Norman Lamb MP
    Graham Brady MP
    Michael Gove MP
    Julian Sturdy MP
    Pat Doherty MP
    David Rutley MP
    Jon Ashworth MP
    Mark Garnier MP
    Baroness Berridge [Note: House of Lords] Jeremy Lefroy MP
    Theresa May MP
    Page 4 of 7

    Douglas Carswell MP Gordon Banks MP Nigel Adams MP Edward Timpson MP David Gauke MP Helen Goodman MP Dan Rogerson MP Damien Hinds MP Chris Skidmore MP Rosie Winterton MP Ed Vaizy MP
    Edward Davey MP Normal Lamb MP Andrew Bridgen MP Ian Wright MP
    John Leech MP
    Greg Mulholland MP Jesse Norman MP Stuart Andrew MP Andrew Stephenson MP Sir Gerald Howarth MP Andrea Leadsom MP Paul Maynard MP
    Nic Daykin MP
    Chris Kelly MP
    Stuart Jackson MP Peter Tapsell MP
    Jacob Rees Mogg MP Douglas Carswell MP Rober Halfron MP Louise Ellman MP Graeme Morrice MP Luciane Berger MP Lord Cormack MP
    Kate Green MP
    John Howell MP
    Dawn Primarolo MP John Randall MP Damien Collins MP
    Nick Gibb MP
    Heidi Alexander MP David Wright MP
    Mark Garnier MP
    Derek Twigg MP
    Page 5 of 7

    Ann Coffey MP
    Barbara Keeley MP
    Caroline Flint MP
    Karen Buck MP
    Caroline Lucas MP
    Cherly Gillan MP
    Richard Drax MP
    Clive Efford MP
    Nadhim Zawahi MP
    Gareth Johnson MP
    Roger Godsiff MP
    Alistair Carmichael MP Simon Kirby MP
    Tom Brake MP
    Ben Gummer MP
    Ann McGuire MP
    Martin Caton MP
    Annette Brooke MP
    Lord Luce – house of Lords The Baroness O Cathian MP Hillary Benn MP
    Mark Francois MP
    Fabian Hamilton MP
    Lord Tebbit – house of Lords
    Yours sincerely
    Mrs L Whitehurst
    Data Protection and Information Rights team
    Charity Commission at PO Box 211, Bootle, L20 7YX (email: RIGA@charitycommission.gov.uk).
    the
     If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request or the decision which has been
     reached, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Internal review requests must be
     submitted within two months of the date of this response and should be addressed to
     If you are not satisfied with the internal review, you are able to appeal to the Information Commissioner. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted our review procedure. The ICO can be contacted at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (email: Home | ICO).
     Page 6 of 7

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  11. A little while ago I submitted a FoI request to the charity commission asking for the names of the 200 MP’s who wrote in support of the Plymouth Brethren application to be registered as a charity

    i have know had a response from the charity’s commission in regards to that FOI request both Herefordshire MP’s  names appear on the list of MP’s so that’s both Jesse Norman & Bill Wiggins who wrote in support of the Brethren getting charitable status

     

     

     

     

  12. 10 hours ago, megilleland said:

    It is not only UK's politicians taking us for a ride. While the UK government was scamming the public with many of their friends getting billions for Covid aid. Canada is also refusing to say who got dollars in Covid aid with no details on how money is spent with $240 billion handed out in the first 8 months of pandemic. Also Big Pharma continues to rake in the money.

    “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that've long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.”
    ― George Carlin

    The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.
    ― Steven Magee

    Listening to PMQ’s today a question about tackling fraud was raised a couple of times…if the government did actually take any real action on fraud then there would  be at least half if not all the members of the Houses of Parliament being arrested on a charge of defrauding the vast majority of people in this country for a lack of representation l 

  13. This is a communication that I received from a guy who has been looking into the whole Plymouth brethren set up & how they operation there businesses…later I will post a link to their website it makes for  a fascinating as was as a insightful read.

    I am aware of the Brethren in Hereford and the part of the Rotherwas industrial estate they occupy. They have a number of businesses and properties next to the gospel hall. The only one I am aware of winning a PPE contract is Halco Europe. There are 4 main families in the Hereford Brethren the Doouss, Markham, Bushnell and the Haughton families. 

    The Bushnell's who own Selmach are related closely (brother in laws) to those behind Unispace.
    The Doouss family are high up in the church.

    To give you an idea of scale there are 23 brethren companies on the Rotherwas (18 live and 5 dissolved), according to companies house.

    I always stick to facts, I also understand reluctance of press & websites to run stories. I would be more surprised if the brethren havent built strong relationships with the 2 MPs.

    The interesting thing in your area is how many contracts were won by companies either on the estate or in Hereford.

    Eumar - not brethren
    Meddx - not brethren
    Elite Plastics - not brethren but not 100% sure.
    Halco Europe - definitely brethren
    There is another but would need to search for that information.

    Halco & Elite are back to back with each other.

    Hope this helps

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