Bromyard Bringsty News Today

Four wards in and around Bromyard are being contested in council elections on May 4. Here is our guide to each. Incumbent councillors are in bold.

A LOCAL councillor has said repairs to a major road in Herefordshire shouldnt take a year.

Voters in Herefordshire have been urged to make sure now that they are ready for local elections on May 4.

THERE are now more car parking spaces in one Herefordshire town after the council reversed some of its social distancing measures. From July, Herefordshire Council started to introduce the active travel measures in Herefordshire so walking and cycling would be more attractive during the coronavirus pandemic. In Bromyard, this meant a number of parking spaces in Broad Street and High Street were replaced with widnened walkways, and plant pots put there to stop cars staying there. Now Her...

Bromyard Bringsty councillor Nigel Shaw says the state of some of the towns buildings will discourage future tourists. A COUNTY councillor is calling for action to restore decaying historic buildings in Bromyard to their former glory. Herefordshire Council served repair notices on the old library in Church Street and the Hop Pole Hotel in Market Street in 2019. However, Bromyard Bringsty councillor Nigel Shaw says nothing has been done since and the state of the buildings will discourage ...

Children and families cabinet member Felicity Norman will have the final say on whether the commissioned services currently provided by HOPE are run by Herefordshire Council. BROMYARD councillors have blasted Herefordshire Council for planning a ‘power grab’ to integrate children services which are independently run in the town. The county council is looking to integrate the commissioned early help children’s centre service for the Bromyard area with their existing in-house provision...