SIXTEEN empty shops in High Town. Some of these have moved over to ‘you know where’. Widemarsh Street and High Town messed with bird droppings and litter, often a most unattractive sight.
Burnt buildings under scaffolding for four years and no pressure exerted to obtain rebuilding. The Butter Market in a dire state of neglect and lacking basic facilities.
Hereford’s traders bearing the full rates burden while others elsewhere have a three-year rates holiday. Street cleaning twice daily in the Old Market; once a week if you are lucky in the old city.
Public toilets shut, so visitors can cross their legs or just go home. Who wants to visit a historic city, when cheap retail and loads of coffee are just across the road?
Dastardly plot to destroy High Town and move its retail elsewhere? It may not be intentional but that is the effect of what is happening.
HUBERT PORTE Madley
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