The City of York’s Core Strategy has been criticised by an independent planning inspector, David Vickery. From his initial reading of the strategy he had “significant concerns regarding its compliance with the legal requirements and its potential soundness”. Continue reading ...
Herefordshire Council have made these responses available to Here for Hereford at their Plough Lane offices. They date from November 2011, when various stakeholders submitted their comments on the Revised Preferred Option: ‘Help Plan the Future of Herefordshire’. Continue reading ...
Herefordshire Council’s growth plans for the county, which include 16,500 homes and a ‘western relief road’ around Hereford City, could be in serious trouble after the Greater Norwich Development Partnership 15 year growth plans were rejected after a judicial review in the High Court last week. Continue reading ...
Here for Hereford supporters from North, West and South Hereford gathered at Breinton Village Hall on 21st January to discuss the Council’s benighted Local Development Framework (LDF). Already two years behind schedule, people want to know ‘What’s happening with the LDF?’ Continue reading ...
On Wednesday 25th January the Watershed in Hereford was packed to hear the presentation by Robin Thorndyke on the famous local artist and child prodigy Brian Hatton. Robin has identified and then photographed the landscapes and farming scenes that Brian Hatton painted nearly 100 years earlier. The evening was very entertaining as Robin had many interesting stories and anecdotes about Brian Hatton and about his own investigative journey to match paintings to locations and the people he met along the way. These stories were illustrated with Robin’s own contemporary photographs and Brian Hatton’s paintings, of which 1,400 are stored in the Herefordshire Council Resource Centre in Friar Street. The event was hosted and organised by Hereford Civic Society (www.herefordcivicsociety.org.uk) Continue reading ...
It is very worrying that once again the Overview and Scrutiny Committee of Herefordshire Council had documents withheld from them by officers, whose work they are supposed to be scrutinizing. Today questions written and submitted last Wednesday (11th January 2012) on items in the agenda, in accordance with the rules of the committee, were submitted by a member of the public. However, it was reported to the meeting that the director of people and places along with David Powell (chief officer financial and commercial) had jointly decided that the questions should not be circulated to the committee members. Councillors were understandably unhappy that officers were filtering their correspondence without referring the matter to the chair, so hurriedly copies of the questions were made and circulated. However, this meant councillors had little or no time to read the questions, due to the fact that the meeting was already in progress. Continue reading ...
This is a collection of photographs taken on locations on roads coming into Hereford at the same time of day but comparing term time congestion and holiday time traffic. Here for Hereford would like the Council to investigate more closely how congestion in Hereford could be tackled just by considering the impact of the “school run”. The work the Council have already done indicates that school traffic can increase traffic volumes from 23% to 52% on some radial routes into Hereford. Tackling term time cars could have a bigger impact on reducing congestion in the city centre than the “relief road” and could be achieved more cheaply and within the next few years rather in 20 years time.In addition it would promote healthier choices for travel and could improve child obesity rates in the city. Continue reading ...
FOREWORD September 2011 Continue reading ...
