The It’s OUR City! campaign underwent a complete re-invigoration this weekend with an incredibly successful Campaign Day in Hightown. Passers-by were treated to the sight of just how BIG the campaign had become with a recreation of what the petition really looked like. At over 10 metres long by two and a half meters high [...]
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They all turned up!
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Huge public event – Saturday 10th April
April 7th, 2010Twenty-one weeks after it delivered its 10,000-signature petition to Herefordshire Council, the all-county It’s Our City campaign is mounting a major day of action in Hereford on Saturday 10 April. Based in High Town and Maylord Square, IOC’s Campaign Day aims to renew its pledges to the people of Herefordshire to halt planned retail development [...]
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Object to the link road now – here’s how!
February 5th, 2010Send an email to rpryce@herefordshire.gov.uk with the Application Number in the subject line. You can also add “objection” if you want to. In the email you can use the list below to select a few or a lot of reasons to support your objection. Better still write a letter to: Mr R Pryce, Planning Services, [...]
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New policy states developments should put local businesses first
December 31st, 2009“Town centres first” says new report from the DCLG
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Big boost for campaign’s petition
December 12th, 2009NEARLY 2,500 extra signatures have been added to the It’s Our City petition, since it was delivered to Herefordshire Council in November. By year-end, campaign organisers are confident that the total number of local people opposed to ESG’s city regeneration plans will be approaching 14,000. As well as having more than 20 petition-signing points [...]
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Public Debate at Weobley
November 15th, 2009Also on Friday 13th… 73 people braved the pouring rain on Friday, 13th November to come to Weobley Village Hall to hear the first ever public debate on the Edgar Street Grid Development. Speaking in favour were Herefordshire Council Leader Roger Phillips and ESG Herefordshire Ltd Chief Executive, Jonathon Bretherton. Opposing the ESG – at [...]
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Friday 13th – Unlucky for some!
November 15th, 2009On Friday, 13th November a petition with over 10,000 signatures was handed to the Chairman of Hereford Council by Cllr Mark Hubbard, Chair of the “It’s Our City”, on the steps of Shire Hall in front BBC TV cameras. The petition read as follows: We call on Herefordshire Council to suspend the current proposals for [...]
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Public Meeting at the Courtyard
October 7th, 2009They just don’t get it THERE was a palpable air of excitement in the Courtyard foyer before the start of It’s Our City’s biggest public meeting, when nearly 400 supporters crowded into the arts centre on 19 October. The atmosphere was a cross between a theatrical first night and a local football derby. Only the [...]
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Packed meeting launches campaign
September 29th, 2009Nearly 300 people packed into the Town Hall Assembly Room for the “It’s Our City” public launch on September 15th. They overflowed into the Council Chamber … and more had to be turned away! With hardly a dissenting voice the message to Herefordshire Council and the ESG Company was loud and clear: “Think again, before it’s too late!” Cllr Mark Hubbard (Central Ward) chaired the meeting and captured the mood, declaring: “We are going to stop the Retail on the Cattle Market and the Link Road.”
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A tale of two town centres
September 29th, 2009I had been meaning to visit Wrexham ever since I heard that its new shopping centre, which opened 12 months ago, was a very similar development to that proposed for Hereford’s Edgar Street Grid site. Having made the effort to travel to north Wales and study the town’s new Eagles Meadow centre at first hand, it has brought home to me why we should think again about the ESG retail quarter.