Local firms start work on Hereford's old cattle market (From Hereford Times)

Were these contractors tenders the infamous secret council meetings that took place a few months ago?

Its good to see local business involved in such a well documented and costly development. R&D cost the council millions...what a mess!

The need to redevelop Hereford is well overdue. As is the by-pass!

The problem is Hereford Council and its councilors need redevelopment too...out with the old and in with the new.

The old fashioned black ball in a bag affairs are no longer appropriate in this day and age.

The council is in disarray at the best of times with its offices split all over the city...how costly a situation is that?

Let us all hope that smaller independent firms without financial connections with the council or its Councillors will also have an opportunity to tender for contracts.

It might be worth noting that many of the shops in the city center are owned by the council and are let to multinational companies for peppercorn rentals...those same multinationals then sublet to well known stores and charge extortionate rental making substantial profits at our local economies expense and reducing in real terms the income the council would make if it managed its own properties. What a farce.

We should be encouraging entrepreneurship by removing the giants that restrict the city's development.

KnightRook, I think we Posters are going to like you. You despise our Council and their version of democracy and that makes you just fine and dandy as far as we are concerned.
What are your views on jumping from a public building as a form of protest?
Opinion is divided on this issue. All the Posters think its insanity whereas I think it's not.

It might be worth noting that many of the shops in the city center are owned by the council

Well you got that point wrong.

William Rudd wrote:
It might be worth noting that many of the shops in the city center are owned by the council

Well you got that point wrong.

it's 'centre'

To be fair the Council doesnt own many of the shops in the City Centre but it does own the overall strategy for the economic health of Hereford. Unfortunately by allowing developers to poach existing retailers to ESG by offering lower rents this will result in more and more empty shops. Herefordshire Councils regeneration strategy has so far only resulted in closing businesses, destroying jobs and costing local taxpayers tens of millions of pounds to achieve this.

centre - an area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town".
central city, city center, city centre - the central part of a city

You got that wrong