Herefordshire Council's community services scrutiny committee has determined that the council's favoured site for Hereford's new livestock market is the right one. It recommends that the council go ahead to relocate the market from the Edgar Street Grid, near the centre of Hereford, to the 'Griffiths Field' site to the north west of the city, releasing valuable development land for regeneration according to a press release put out by the Herefordshire Council this morning.
Yesterday's announcement came after more than five hours and three meetings of formal questioning, investigations and deliberations by the scrutiny committee who 'called in' the cabinet decision to build the new market with landscaping in part of the 48-acre field along the Roman Road.
In moving the market from its presently dilapidated 7.9-acre site on the Edgar Street Grid in Hereford, the council will release prime land for retail, leisure and service business development, breathing new life into this area of Hereford and alleviating traffic flow in the city on market days.
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