Core Strategy consultations

Plans on how the county should grow and develop have now been published and county residents are being asked to comment. A series of public events are being held around the county where people can come and find out more about the Core Strategy. The consultation runs until 22 April, 2013. Views will be presented to full council in July. On the 14th of March between 10 am and 1pm there will be a promotional trailer in the Tenbury Road carpark.

Visit the council’s website www.herefordshire.gov.uk for more information.

The Core Strategy is a key planning document which sets out the vision for the long term development of Herefordshire until 2031. The main purpose of the document is to identify where new business and housing development will take place in the future, its type and scale, as well as protecting what is valued about the area.

It also identifies what services, facilities and infrastructure including road, electricity, gas and water are needed and when, and how these will be achieved.

Counsellor Russell B Hamilton, cabinet member for environment, housing and planning said: “The Core Strategy, when complete, will establish a firm basis for the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the county.

“It will set the tone for the way in which the county evolves over the period to 2031. It not only recognises the importance of a fully functioning and integrated city but emphasises our market towns and rural communities.

“I would urge everyone in Herefordshire to look at this draft plan carefully, visit one of the community events that has been organised and express any views that they may have”.

A series of public events are being held around the county where people can come and find out more about the Core Strategy. The consultation runs until 22 April, 2013. Views will be presented to full council in July. Visit the council’s website http://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/ldf for more information.

Core Strategy public events:

Date	Venue	Time
11 March 2013	Ross on Wye promotional trailer, Market Square	10 – 13.00pm
12 March 2013	Leominster promotional trailer, Corn Square	10 – 13.00pm
14 March 2013	Bromyard promotional trailer, Tenbury Road car park	10 – 13.00pm
16 March 2013	Hereford promotional trailer, High Town	10 – 15.00pm
19 March 2013	Kington promotional trailer, Mill Street car park	10 – 13.00pm
21 March 2013	Ledbury promotional trailer, High Street near Market House	10 – 13.00pm
27 March 2013	Golden Valley Community Centre, Peterchurch	14.00 – 16.00pm
28 March 2013	Wigmore Village Hall	10.00 – 13.00pm

Comments

+2 #20 Ros Bissell 2013-03-23 11:59

Now I know what to do when I have insomnia - read the core strategy plan or similar council document. Is it my eyesight or is either Bromyard or Tenbury Wells on the move as on the map it says its 21 miles to Tenbury!

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+3 #19 Ros Bissell 2013-03-16 08:24

It is instances like such a chat at the consultaion wagon that I find most interesting and can assure you I am cynical enough to take with a pinch of salt anything a council-related person may tell me until I see it for myself as absolute fact.

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+2 #18 Ray Whittaker 2013-03-15 20:21

Ros, If the snippets were as reliable as the comment about 1200 houses I should ignore them all.

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0 #17 Ros Bissell 2013-03-15 17:52

Ray I have no idea of the name of the person who told me but we had a pleasant chat and I heard some interesting snippets.

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+4 #16 Tony Stanton 2013-03-15 08:23

Thank you Roger, that was the kind of response I would have expected. I do apreciate timings for this kind of meeting can be difficult but I would like to think that, in order the TC can formulate the outcome of the meeting before 22nd April it can be held within the next 2 weeks.
Once again thanks for your comment.

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-1 #15 Bromyard Drifter 2013-03-15 00:35

Tony Burt, and Martin Attridge (whoever you might be, can't find you on FB so you are as anonymous to me as I am to you. Am I bothered?) I have read it all, sigh, I was just putting myself in the shoes of someone who is time poor, and thinking that I would probably freak at the notion of having to read that lot to understand the full implications of the LDP. I don't think it's up to me to point people in the direction the TC want Bromyard to develop in, after all I'm not on the TC am I? (yet). Roger Page seems to have the right approach, my commendations, I shall be at the public meeting, and look forward to the proposals/sugge stions on the way forward by the TC. As a matter of record I have already sent my comments to HCC and I am a resident of Bromyard, Why else would anyone bother?

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+4 #14 Roger Page 2013-03-14 22:26

Let me assure Tony Stanton and others that the Town Council
will be doing all it can to enter proper consultation on the LDF,
in spite of the short time we have (22nd April).There will be at
least one public meeting held in a much larger venue than the
Council chamber.Do not be put off by the core stratagy which
has been published.We have to put an alternative plan forward
which,if not accepted by HC will stand the scrutiny of a public
enquiry.
What HC is currently proposing is simply not deliverable.The
process for the TC will commence on Monday night at the full
Council meeting followed by 34 days of intensive activity .
We want as many Bromyard residents as possible to put
forward views.Please send in individual replies and copy to the
TC if possible.Thanks ,see you at a public meeting.

Councillor Roger Page - Chairman TC Planning Committee.
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+1 #13 Ray Whittaker 2013-03-14 19:43

"...our TC wanted about 1,200 houses built at Bromyard"

That is COMPLETELY untrue. Not only that but it would increase our population by about 4,000 doubling the size of our town. Ridiculous.

Did you get their name Ros?

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+1 #12 Ros Bissell 2013-03-14 17:54

One of the HCC people told me that our TC wanted about 1,200 houses built at Bromyard!!!!!

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+4 #11 Tony Stanton 2013-03-14 15:32

Having spoken with 2 HCC officers this morning it would appear this entire consultation process is a sham, in fact this stage is not mandatory at all. "HCC have no obligation to consult any further with the public on this LDF proposal. It is now down to our TC to seek the views of residents and conduct our own consultation process"
I would welcome comments from the TC on that quote.

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