Broken Promises?

After all the encouragement from the County Council in relation to the town's application for restoring proper signage to the bypass the "rules is rules" brigade seem to have flatly rejected the bid after all!

My spies tell me that Herefordshire CC have explained that because Highway Agency rules are against us we can't have the signs our High Street needs. These inflation-linked pension holding bureaucrats are once again putting rules before the prosperity of Bromyard's private businesses and we should not stand for it!

At this precise moment I have no grouch with our Town Council but if they take this lying down they will be failing our retailers in a massive way. They need to stand up to this and I urge everyone to communicate our support to the Council for any action they may take. If they don't act then we need to re-think!

There is a council meeting tonight. It would do no harm to remind our councillors what we expect from them.

Comments

[Ros]

Why am I not surprised!

Bromyard has always been treated as the underdog by the county council, they are probably too busy doing things with feathers and nests to care about us.

They waste so much tax payers' money (our money) and get Herefordshire into debt but when we try to help ourselves they stamp on us.

I hope Bromyard council will stand up to them and tell them to for once help the very people who pay their wages and expenses.

[Alan Wheatley]

Driving round the country I find signs "to the shops" and the like are quite common. They are welcome because it provides an opportunity, not otherwise known about, to break the journey for refreshment or buy something needed. Indeed, we are urged to take a break for road safety reasons. So signs to Bromyard's facilities are welcome for several reasons.

If the County Council think that suitable signs are not allowed for highways regulatory reasons, their opinion would seem to be at odds with other local authorities. I suggest the Town Council ask for a copy of the specific regulation that the County Council are citing in support of they decision so we can see the quality of their reasoning.