Phase 1 of the western bypass, redevelopment of part of the Edgar Street football stadium, construction of the new museum and art gallery, and new vehicle charging points are all in the pipeline for Herefordshire (Image: Herefordshire Council; LDRS)
Herefordshire’s newly published Delivery Plan 2024-2025 contains wide-ranging schemes for the county in the coming months.
Here are some of the items on the county council’s To Do list:
- Agree the transfer of land to enable the southern section of the revived western city bypass plan to begin, and complete a review of the rest of the project.
- Appoint a development partner progress new student accommodation at the Edgar Street football stadium and College Road campus in Hereford.
- Begin building a second integrated wetland, at Tarrington, in order to create more “phosphate credits” enabling housebuilding in the county.
- Install energy-efficient measures in 200 homes in the county and assess retrofitting of 150 households.
- Install 50 more publicly available electric vehicle charge points around the county.
- Relocate Hereford’s library from the current Friars Street to the Town Hall in St Owen Street, while its longer-term home in the nearly Shirehall is readied.
- Begin building work on the new Hereford museum and art gallery in Broad Street.
- Begin work on creating Ross Enterprise Park at the town’s Model Farm site.
- Prepare plans for a new training centre of excellence at Skylon Park, southeast of Hereford, while transferring overall management of Skylon Park to the council.
- Use Government funding to buy 25 properties for young people aged 18-25 at risk of homelessness.
- Spend over £400,000 of Government funding to improve Hereford’s Great Western Way pedestrian and cycle path.
- Complete an outline business case for reopening the railway station at Pontrilas, now likely to be called “Golden Valley Parkway”.
- Increase capacity for special educational needs pupils, which could include repurposing council and other buildings, and building new facilities.
- Implement a safer streets policy at three yet-to-be-named priority schools, with smaller improvement at eight more schools.
- Install CCTV cameras in Leominster, Ross-on-Wye and Ledbury.
- Draft a Town and Parish Charter and restart regular summits with the county’s parishes.
The Delivery Plan is due to be approved by the county’s cabinet next week (June 27).
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