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Development plans underway
Herefordshire is ready for its biggest ever development which will include the football club, according to today's Hereford Times.
A £200 million redevelopment to transform the city into the `social, leisure and cultural' centre of the Marches goes out to tender next week.
The plan itself has cost a six-figure sum to produce, and they could be on show as early as the new year - then negotiations with twenty two developers can start.
However, the plan is threatened by the relocation of the cattle market, which has hit opposition and could but investors off the scheme.
The scheme, though, already has a slogan: `The Place to Come and The Place to Be'.
The football club will stay at Edgar Street and incorporate a multi-sport/leisure centre - the kind of scheme likely to attract funding. Furthermore, a separate exhibition/arts and conference area connected to The Courtyard and an Arts Academy is envisaged on the current Cattle Market site, along with new council headquarters, police headquarters, a possible library and even a cinema.
With a preliminary £200 million price tag, the Edgar Street grid is Herefordshire's biggest ever development brief and amongst the most ambitious in Europe.