Cambo

Well then hopefully after the next elections all the good councillors will still have there seats & we get lots of good new ones to replace the bad old ones?! & as you say your a good one cllr Vaughan-Powell I also hope you get relected too. my real name it is Michael Hayes! Ps but your not having a picture! I'm sorry but I'll have to draw the line somewhere!

Point taken cllr but I'm not hiding behind an avatar? because if you knew me then you'd also know me as Cambo as that's wot most people, who do know me,know me as!!

Apologise twowheelsgood it's not a personal attack aimed just on cllr Vaughan-Powell but on this whole process on how decisions are made, it just seems so undemocratic & the fact only a group leader can speak or ask question sounds more like a dictatorship than a democracy?

Is it really so why let only half the cat out of the bag that's just cruel? Now teasing us just won't do it would have been better if you had said nothing @ all? as this sort of behaviour implies only the underhand deceitful dealings of democratic elected councillors who have no respect for democracy or the voting public just cos we ain't in your club!!…well think on this councillor next year is election year so you better start listening??!!

Oh cllr Vaughan-Powell so you are alive & well i hope? now maybe you can tell us all about wot you know regards the sale of bath street? as you were saying its sold or about to be sold yesterday? & I'll tell you who is going to present it to cabinet?

BREAKING NEWS Last ditch bid to save Hereford heritage site 1:37pm Monday 7th April 2014 in County By Bill Tanner A LAST ditch pitch to save a Hereford heritage site will go straight to Herefordshire Council’s cabinet on Thursday. Campaigners fighting for the former Hereford Working Boys Home, now the council’s Bath Street offices, say the site doesn’t have to be a new fire station when the current County Bus Station will do. The council wants a land swap with Hereford & Worcester Fire & Rescue Authority (HWFRA) that sees the Bath Street offices making way for a new Hereford fire station. In return, the council gets the current fire station site in St Owen Street as, at this stage, a car park. On Thursday, cabinet will be urged to hold off on any deal and re-engage with the idea of a Hereford transport “hub†based around the city's railway station - as proposed in the initial stages of the Commercial Road-Edgar street link road plan. The fate of the former Working Boys Home is the latest issue to challenge the council over its approach to asset disposal and decision-making. Hereford Civic Society, which has lead much of the opposition to the land swap, has directly accused the council of not sharing its intentions in its haste to get a deal done. Both the Bath Street offices and Hereford Fire Station are said to be unfit for contemporary and future operation. English Heritage rejected an application to have the Bath Street offices listed. Campaigners for the Boys Home will now make a direct pitch to cabinet on Thursday over the idea of a hub and its “immediate†consideration. They make a case for a hub at the railway station freeing up council-owned land behind the city’s Odeon cinema for the new fire station - with three access points, the widest of which in Commercial Road being just metres from the eastern end of the proposed link road. The Hereford Times has seen a copy of what cabinet will be asked to consider. It’s a plan that puts a “much reduced†county bus station close to the railway station and the National Express stop in a parking bay on Commercial Road. With the co-operation of the four principal bus operators and Arriva Trains - Network Rail’s tenant at Hereford Station - it should, the plan says, be possible to “plan and execute†the move of the bus services to the station in parallel with fire station's design preparations and needs. The pitch ends with a call on cabinet to set up a round table of all the interested parties that could make the “ visionary concept†happen.

Cllr Vaughan-Powell it would appear that the cat has got hold of your tongue? As we the greater public are still awaiting for you to elaborate on wot you said yesterday regarding bath street!…I don't know how you expect to spill the beans correctly if you don't open the can up properly to begin with?!

Would you be as kind as to elaborate plz cllr Vaughan-Powell?…about to be bought,already sold or swapped? & to whom?

Thank you Denise glad to hear your over your sensitivity. Yes your right, try as I might I couldn't get into the mindset of Stanhope or the council it was of such an intellict, that of the like, that i've never encountered before?…I can only say this it was neither of genius or brilliance but that of sheer madness!!

Apologise Denise I thought the food on my table came from Morrisons?… I had no idea it came from farms, from all over the world, let alone a lot of it from out of the ground!! Joking apart thou it was not my intention to make you think I was doing down farmers far from it, i have met a few & i can tell you that i generally find them to be the salt of the earth! I was just trying to get into Stanhope's mindset, as to there thinking behind the design, for the OLM?…unfortunately I couldn't come up with any sensible reasoning as to why it looks like it does??…

Yea it does Biomech & last night I noticed one of your comments mentioned "What they mean is farmers and industrial business owners. There's no money in Hereford." So maybe that's why it looks like it does,cos they want the farmers & industrial business owners to feel like there still @ work,even when there out shopping??

This is the view you get of the OLM if you live up @the collage area!

Well if they are there probably getting somebody else to pay for it?… as I'd say they are far to wily to get caught out like that?

Although Stanhope might not face financial penalties for delays that doesn't mean to say contractors doing the work for Stanhope won't face penalties for delays themselves?? As I was speaking to a friend of mine last sat, who works & lives in London. He was saying, that they(Stanhope) would of screwed HC right down on everything…no doubt they would of done the same to any contractors carrying out work on the OLM too??

Yes it was a good letter by John Bothamley' but we shouldn't berat cllr bramer to much for changing his mind, as @ lest it shows he is capable of doing so & hopefully it will be for the better good for the boys home?…unless of course he's just throwing us all a massive curve ball?

I think I'm in agreement with that summing up of yours megilleland!

Thank you grid knocker but you also deserve a pat on the back, as it was your mighty pen work that enabled me to be able to hand cllr bramer the letter. Hopefully if they do agree that the bus station is a better location for a new fire station? they will be able to move swiftly on making it a reality?

Thank you dippy hopefully he will give it serious consideration?

Thank you bobby that is most kind of you. Well I did meet with cllr Bramer today @ 12pm where I was able to hand him a letter outlining why the county bus station would be a much better option as to where a new fire station should be relocated. unfortunately cllr bramer did not have time to go through it with me. But I guess he needs time to read it for himself then to digest the proposal? So I will chase him up in a couple of days so as I can get his thoughts. In the mean time it might be worth folks emailing there local cllr's asking them to rejected bath street as the location for the new fire station, & to let HWFRS have the bus station instead??

That mr featherstone sounds like a nice chap saying they only have to give 24 hr notice for rosé tinted rags to get out?! I feel that HC have a duty to help them relocate instead of using bully boy tactics to throw them out onto the street!… it's bloody discrimination that's wot it is....I just wish I was rich enough so as, I could buy them there own place but unfortunately I'm as poor as a begger! But I can send mr featherstone an email telling him of my disgust @ the way HC are acting towards the good folks of rose tints rags!

Oh I do have sum good news thou mr Harry bramer has agreed to meet me on Wednesday @ brockington so that I can give him a written request to consider the bus station as an alternative site stating reason as to why it is a better location than bath street. Which was written by the mighty grid knockers pen!!!

Yes twowheelsgood I did hear a rumour about that maybe he should run for Westminster instead?

No worries I prob should have posted this info earlier? I think there was something in Hereford times a couple of wks ago about the appeal but not 100% sure on that?!

English Heritage (Designation) Reject at Initial Assessment Report 13 February 2014