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Surveyors have been seen down by the Full Pitcher this week, and the rumour mill is saying that the Full Pitcher will disappear to help make room for new houses there. If Ledbury loses both the Full Pitcher and the Ring O Bells where will the thousands of extra people living in Ledbury socialise in the evening?
Oh, I forgot, you're not supposed to go out anymore - it's been discouraged. Stay at home with your Sky, freeview, laptop, you tube, facebook and stroke the dog .
Stay In Your Homes - Plug in and turn off!

Allegedly we don't have to worry about the schools or doctors, dentists etc.. If we need more places they'll be provided!!!! Shame they couldn't tell us how or where yet expect us to make an 'informed' decision about where we want the development without this vital information. I've had my daughter on the list for a nursery place for nearly a year and there's no guarantee she'll get one now. I can't imagine what will happen later...
Next roadshow is 23rd Feb in St Katharines....

Last edited by Claire Moore (2010-02-11 10:08:10)

I wrote to the Ledbury Reporter requesting an article concerning the proposed development and received no response nor found any reference to the issue in this edition so have written again (copy below). Maybe fellow Ledbury Portal members could help by also contacting them? Thanks

"I can't begin to tell you how disappointed I am to see that my letter (below) failed to make it on this week's letter page but was overlooked for yet more letters concerning the dog-waste situation in Malvern. An incedible 5 of the 9 letters in this issue are about the same topic, one of which has been printed before.
It is such a shame that our local paper seems so disinterested in what is happening in our town. I understand you have to remain impartial, but surely a development of the size proposed would warrant at least a small paragraph in the last issue before the Council's Roadshow in  the town (Feb 23rd). I am sure that when the bulldozers move onto the cricket pitch, the people of Ledbury will rest easy knowing the dog-poo situation in Malvern is as bad as ever, and another nursery has been having half-term fun!
There is still time for a decent article next week before the consultation ends on 12th March....I will keep my fingers crossed."

I wonder if anyone has noticed Herefordshire Council's biodiversity planning on the Internet: 

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They are doing a lot of thinking, planning and counting, but not a lot else by the looks of it.

I would have thought 900 new homes around Ledbury would cause a loss to local biodiversity when tarmac, concrete and bricks and mortar replace hedgerows, trees and fields. The increase of families will mean an increase of cats, dogs and rats that usually accompany them - which will again impact on local biodiversity.

I should imagine this will take a lot of head scratching and number crunching for Herefordshire Council's biodiversity planning to calculate - if that even comes into the equation.