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Some Questions and Answers on the Southern Link Road.

Here for Hereford answers some pertinent questions, following the Cabinet’s recommendation to spend £27.6 million on a Southern Link Road from the A49 to the A465 in the South Wye area of Hereford.  According to Herefordshire Council’s  latest background report … Continue reading

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Funding for the Full South Wye Transport Package is in doubt.

Herefordshire Council is only promoting one element of the scheme – the building of a southern link road, from the A49 to the A465. The Council has finally published its recommendations for the South Wye Transport Package in its 13 … Continue reading

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South Wye Transport Package – Where is the Evidence?

Here for Hereford reported back in April how the Leader of Herefordshire Council had misled the people of Hereford over transport issues in Hereford, particularly the A49-A465 “Southern Link Road”. ( Here for Hereford Article April 2014 ) .We quoted … Continue reading

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Core Strategy Pre Submission Publication – How to Respond

Herefordshire Council have started a consultation on the Pre-Submission Publication of the Core strategy since 22nd May. People have until Thursday 3rd July 2014 to submit comments on this plan. You can only comment on whether you think the Plan … Continue reading

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Belmont Home Farm Developers Appeal Dismissed

The significance of the Belmont parkland has been re-affirmed and the landscape protected from housing development in a recent decision by the Planning Inspectorate. This is a good result for all those who opposed the scheme in the first place, … Continue reading

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Transport Modelling and the Proposed New Hereford “Relief” Road

Latest Herefordshire Council evidence that the ‘No Road’ option will perform better than the “Western Relief Road” . Here for Hereford held an Open Forum on Transport Options in September 2012 at the time of the Council’s Consultation on their … Continue reading

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Trees, Transport and Democracy

Here for Hereford learned a lot from the campaign to try and save the fourteen 50-year old lime trees on Edgar Street, even though the campaign failed. On Sunday 22nd September, 2013, at seven o’clock in the morning, ten of … Continue reading

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Core Strategy Consultation Responses – More Details Emerge

Here for Hereford has been trawling through the thousands of comments on the Core Strategy Questionnaire, posted on the Council’s website as follows: https://beta.herefordshire.gov.uk/planning-and-building-control/planning-policy/core-strategy/psp/. PSP is the acronym for ‘Pre-Submission Publication’.  It refers to the documents which will go forward … Continue reading

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A49-A465 Report of Meeting 14th June 2013

We now know that the proposed route for what the Council is calling their ‘Preferred Option’  of the Southern Section of the Hereford Relief Road, is to follow the new SC7 outline (as shown to local residents in March 2013) … Continue reading

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A49-A465 Meeting – What Price Democracy?

On Friday June 14th at 7pm at the Three Counties Hotel, Belmont, a select group of residents were invited to attend a meeting, as a follow up to a meeting held in March 2013, about the Southern section of the … Continue reading

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