Silo demolished on Hereford college site (From Hereford Times)
Get involved! Send your photos, video, news & views by texting HT NEWS to 80360 or e-mail us
Silo demolished on Hereford college site
3:22pm Friday 18th February 2011 in News
Wye Valley Demolition crews dismantle the grain silo on HCT's Holme Lacy Campus
A GRAIN silo next to a college near Hereford has been demolished just days before a crucial planning meeting.
Bosses at Herefordshire College of Technology (HCT) arranged the demolition of the silo at their Holme Lacy Campus.
A January 17 condition survey found the silo was in poor condition and with cracks, missing concrete and collapsed beams.
Demolition started on Thursday (Feb 17) after a notification was approved by Herefordshire Council a week before.
The move comes shortly before a February 23 meeting where councillors will decide on a £25million plan to rebuild the campus.
The silo lies next to Bower House, an unlisted Georgian farmhouse which villagers are fighting to save from demolition.
HCT said the silo had the potential to rapidly deteriorate and insist no further demolition is expected in the medium term.
More News stories
- Funeral held for former Hereford-based SAS major
- Herefordshire Council cash fraud arrest
- Sainsbury's Ledbury application turned down
- L'Oreal facial cream stolen from Morrisons in Leominster - CCTV appeal
- Disorder in Ross-on-Wye - two police officers injured
- Hundreds turn out for Ross-on-Wye pancake race
- Hereford Haven wants rappers to win funding
- Herefordshire Business News: MP welcomes increase in apprenticeships
- Moreton-on-Lugg level crossing crash - signalman and Network Rail decline to enter pleas at court
- Hoardings to go up soon at Hereford's old Cattle Market
