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Council Borrows £27m for ESG Link Road

The Council is meeting on February 3rd to agree its Capital Spending Budget for the next four years.  Council budgets are hard to understand but, taking it at face value, the council net budget, not including schools, is £143.4m[1] and its net debt is £145.6m[2].  Servicing this debt already costs 12% of the Council’s revenue.  [...]

Affordable Homes feel the pinch

I am pleased to see Frank Hooley (Letters 19th January Hereford Times) calling for more affordable housing in Herefordshire … even if he is doing so from his home in Powys. It’s Our County has alw...

Amey Contract, the Budget and Questions from the Public … or not!

For those of you who read the preview to the Overview and Scrutiny committee, here is the outcome, put together by It’s Our County Cllr Liz Harvey  Herefordshire Council’s Overview and Scrutiny C...

Will Herefordshire Council Think Again

Some of you may have watched rather more Quest TV ‘How it’s Made’ this Christmas than you thought you would due to unwatchable telly on all the other 20 channels.  Take heart, it could h...

Conservatives fail to act on education promises

 In 2008 after the famous Education Rally in Hereford that followed the council threat to close 17 primary and 2 secondary schools the Cons...

It’s Our County Demand an End to Tory Time Wasting Tactics

Irritated at time wasting Notices of Motion that lead nowhere after last week’s Council meeting It’s Our County are proposing a constitu...