Hereford Cattle Market demolition work to begin next week

11:07am Friday 28th September 2012 in Local News

WORK on Hereford's long-awaited multi-million pound retail quarter will finally begin next week. 

Councillor John Jarvis, the leader of Herefordshire Council, said this morning that demolition work will start on Monday.

He also told a meeting of the Full Council that British Land are expected to sign a deal later today on the £80 million Old Market development.

Companies such as Waitrose and Debenhams are expected to move to the city centre site and a multi-screen Odeon cinema will also be built. 

Planning permission for the scheme, managed by Hereford Futures, was granted almost one year ago.

Demolition work was set to begin in January this year but the Queen's visit was given as one of the reasons for the delay.

There will be more from the meeting in next week's Hereford Times.

Comments(13)

bobby47 says...
12:08pm Fri 28 Sep 12

Please, for the love of God and all thats holy, dont sign anything. Not yet! Give us a little more time to digest the issue of the vegetation and the closure of the toilets.
Make an excuse. Any excuse. Tell them you've just acquired a handcart and your wheeling it into High Town to flog some rancid mellons to folk who are picking up their food parcels.
Tell them your an extra in a film thats being made in Hereford, 'The Village of the Damned' or your currently stood in a holding pen waiting to go on to the Jeremy Kyle show.
Just dont sign anything.

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TwoWheelsGood says...
2:23pm Fri 28 Sep 12

And certainly don't sign anything that gives away publicly owned land to private developers for 250 years. Come on, you don't think they're paying for it do you ...?

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mr.dig says...
9:53pm Fri 28 Sep 12

excellent news at last,i guess her majesty has aok'ed it after the visit. bit worried about the ,are expected,bit...i.was expected.to move to wiltshire , but it did not happen. i would have rather read a,WILL BE,moving..

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trucking says...
4:52pm Sat 29 Sep 12

About time it started, hereford needs this, the sooner its built the better.

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silentbull says...
7:04pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Is this the time when the council is going to be saying 'here we can' mmmmm

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Lukio says...
9:41pm Sat 29 Sep 12

Yay I can't wait until High Town is empty but never mind, we'll have a shiny, faceless, same-as-everywhere else shopping centre that we'll be paying out of the arse for the next century. I can't wait to spend money I haven't got in a posh supermarket or part with £50 to take the kids to the cinema. But it's Ok, without this essential development everyone leaves Hereford and we'll soon be a ghost town.

My opinion is a load of balls anyway. I'm at the end of my tether watching X-Factor and drinking home brewed cider. I'll be sorry in the morning.

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bobby47 says...
2:00pm Sun 30 Sep 12

Lukio, Steady on my dear friend. Dont step over the edge. The next stage you must avoid is kneading dough, pushing a handcart laden with rancid mellons and more worryingly, buying spades and digging for old hamlets who's residents strangled herds of pot bellied, Razorback suckling sows.
Once you cross the line, theres no coming back and then you start wittering on about hating embellishers who embellish an embellishment.
Pull yourself together, sort out 'our' forum for the deranged and disgruntled and 'lead' our band onwards and downwards in exactly the same direction of our great City Hereford.
Isn't Cheryl a delight to view? I posted her a photograph of myself once, telling her that I loved her, we were meant to be together forever and I was with her every single moment of the day.
I thought her response a little harsh and draconian but I accept the provisions of her Restraining Order placed upon me. She'll come round!

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trucking says...
4:34pm Sun 30 Sep 12

If i want to go shopping or take my child to the one screen cinema thats got no leg room and you keep getting cramp because you cant move your legs i go out of hereford. Hereford is getting left behind because people dont want change, they dont want the esg, they dont want a access road, they dont want a by-pass all they want to do is moan. Yes there are empty shops in town which need to be filled, we do not need another super market, but we DO need a better cinema.

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William Rudd says...
7:42pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Lukio.

1.Its not a shopping centre
2.Its being paid for by private sector.

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Lukio says...
8:02pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Of course William. If it was a centre, it would be in the centre of town. Not out of it drawing business away from the existing centre of town.

So no public money is being spent on this? That's reassuring. Or am I missing the point?

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TwoWheelsGood says...
10:19pm Mon 1 Oct 12

Paid for by the private sector? The £30m that was originally agreed as a sale price for the site now down to a £1m, or probably nothing, truth be told. By anyone's reckoning that's £30m of public money in a private scheme. What of the cost of all the various ESG/Futiles incarnations (5, I believe, at last count) into which Herefordshire Council has poured money over the years? Many more millions. What of the Officer time - thousands of hours at £100's of punds per hour - many more millions. And all for one lonesome mini-digger.

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allhandstothedeck says...
3:10pm Tue 2 Oct 12

Just get on and do something with it, its another eye sore for the people of Hereford.
In an ideal we could have the new retail quarter for all the big shops like Debenhams and the city center for local shops like butchers and green grocers . I know which one I would shop at.

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William Rudd says...
5:47pm Wed 3 Oct 12

And all for one lonesome mini-digger.

Lol

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