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Search the Public Notice PortalA Hereford councillor is seeking permission to clear “overgrown” trees, shrubs and a hedge from a city green space which is “a focus of antisocial behaviour”.
Coun Ben Proctor, who represents College ward on Hereford City Council as well as on the county council, has applied to planners (number 263077) for permission for the work in part of Churchill Gardens, which lies within the Aylestone Hill conservation area.
“This application is to completely clear the area of trees and bushes, including the boundary yew hedge,” it says.
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This would be part of a larger project to remove hedges and raised beds which originally formed a sensory garden in Churchill Gardens — but which “owing to lack of maintenance has become heavily overgrown and a focus of antisocial behaviour”.
The work has been commissioned by the city council in consultation with Herefordshire Council which owns the site, the application adds.
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Coun Proctor holds a monthly clean-up of the gardens and surrounding area with students and staff from nearby Hereford Sixth Form College.
But in July last year a fire crew had to be called to a blaze in the gardens which damaged several trees along with much of a “dead hedge” created as a wildlife sanctuary.
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Objecting to the latest application, Frank McNally of Almeley wrote: “If the problem is lack of maintenance, then surely the answer is to maintain the area.”
Removing the trees and hedge “will impact not only the visual appearance of the area but also the wildlife”, he wrote.
Comments on the application can be made until November 25, with a decision due two weeks later.
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