HereForHereford

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 22^nd September, 2013, at seven o’clock in the morning, ten of the trees were felled to make way for another transport upgrade on the A49 through Hereford.  Social media found its voice; the Council pushed through a scheme despite public protest; due process of consultation was ignored.  Sounds familiar? Continue reading ...

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) but it is likely to extend north west, to join the Clehonger Road. Is this what all the secrecy was about at that 14 June meeting? We said in our article about this posted on 15 June that we would provide an update, and here, so far, is what we have discovered. Continue reading ...