Making It Real
David Price Award 2020 announcement
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200147/social_care_and_support/726/making_it_real/2
David Price Award 2020 announcement
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200147/social_care_and_support/726/making_it_real/2
Road ahead closed and diversion signs
Highway Works – Resurfacing Works
A480 Yazor Church Junction to Mansel Lacy
Wednesday, 15 July 2020 to (and including) Friday, 17 July 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily
[White lining scheduled for Friday, 24 July 2020 under road closure]A438 Junction with C1151 to Ashperton, Nr Durlow Common
Friday, 17 July 2020 to (and including) Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily. No weekend working
[White lining scheduled for Friday, 24 July 2020 under road closure]A44 Between Headbrook and Hattons Garden Roundabout, Kington – NIGHT WORKS
Wednesday, 22 July 2020 to (and including) Friday, 24 July 2020
Road closed 20.00 hours to 06.00 hours each night
[White lining scheduled for Saturday, 25 July 2020 before 06.00 hours]A44 Junction with C1110 to Stoke Prior
Monday, 20 July 2020 to (and including) Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily
[White lining scheduled for Friday, 24 July 2020 under road closure]A4103 Roman Road, Hereford – Revised road closure times
Thursday, 23 July 2020 to (and including) Friday, 31 July 2020
Road closed 09.30 hours to 15.30 hours daily. No weekend working
Please refer to diversion plan for these works
A417 Bend near Entrance to Whitwick Manor, Lower Eggleton
Thursday, 30 July 2020 to (and including) Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily (no weekend working)
A438 Hollybush
Monday, 3 August 2020 to (and including) Friday, 7 August 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily
B4214 Edwyn Ralph Village
Monday, 24 August 2020 to (and including) Friday, 28 August 2020
Road closed 09.00 hours to 17.00 hours daily
Highway Works – Surface Dressing Preparatory Works
All works will take place between 08.00 hours and 18.00 hours each day.
C1061 Thornbury
[Between Junction of B4214 at joint to outside Thornbury Farm entrance]Monday, 13 July 2020
C1174 – C1175 to C1165, Coddington
[Between junction at Broad Oak Farm and junction, as marked]Tuesday, 14 July 2020
C1064 – B4214 Junction to U65018 Edwin Loach Junction, Collington
[Between Field Farm House at joint to junction at joint]Tuesday, 14 July 2020 to (and including) Thursday, 16 July 2020
Highway Works – Surface Dressing Works (including white lining and cats eyes, if appropriate)
All works will take place between 08.00 hours and 18.00 hours each day. The surface dressing works are scheduled to take one day to complete under a road closure with subsequent days scheduled for the white lining and cat eyes’ installation (where applicable), also planned under daily road closures.
A4110 Abbey Court Farm towards C1107, Wigmore
[Between Court Farm and Wigmore Village]Surface Dressing – Thursday, 30 July 2020
White Lining – Wednesday, 5 August 2020 / Cats Eyes – Thursday, 6 August 2020
A456 Easton Lodge to County Boundary, Little Hereford
[Between Eaton Lodge and County Boundary to Wales]Surface Dressing – Thursday, 30 July 2020
Kielylock (Additional sealant to minimise chip loss) – Monday, 3 August 2020 / White Lining – Wednesday, 5 August 2020 / Cats Eyes – Thursday, 6 August 2020
A466 Derestriction – C1234 Crossroads, St Weonards
[Between Village sign and Reduce Speed sign]Surface Dressing – Monday, 27 July 2020
White Lining – Tuesday, 4 August 2020 / Cats Eyes – Wednesday, 5 August 2020
A466 – B4521 to 40 mph, St Weonards (2 sites)
[Between junction at B4521 and HRA joint in Village]Surface Dressing – Monday, 27 July 2020
Kielylock – Monday, 3 August 2020 / White Lining – Tuesday, 4 August 2020 / Cats Eyes – Wednesday, 5 August 2020
B4355 – Lower Flintsham to The Stagg, Titley
[Between Lower Flintsham and The Stagg PH]Surface Dressing – Thursday, 30 July 2020
White Lining – Wednesday, 5 August 2020 and Thursday, 6 August 2020
B4521 County Boundary to A466, Broad Oak
[Between Junction of A466 (as marked) and County Boundary to Wales]Surface Dressing – Monday, 27 July 2020
Kielylock – Monday, 3 August 2020 / White Lining – Tuesday, 4 August 2020
B4348 Hardwicke
[Between junction at B4352 and joint at Farm entrance]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 28 July 2020
White Lining – Tuesday, 4 August 2020
C1226 Haywood Lane, Hereford (2 Sites)
[Extent of works TBC]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 28 July 2020
White Lining – Tuesday, 4 August 2020
C1263 – A49T to 30mph, Kings Thorn (2 Sites)
[Between A49 junction at joint to bus stop in Village]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 28 July 2020
White Lining – Monday, 3 August 2020
C1061 Thornbury
[Between Junction of B4214 at joint to outside Thornbury Farm entrance]Surface Dressing – Thursday, 30 July 2020
White Lining – Wednesday, 5 August 2020
Highway Works – Surface Dressing – Combi Works
C1174 C1175 to C1165, Coddington
[Between junction at Broad Oak Farm and junction, as marked]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 11 August 2020
White Lining – Wednesday, 19 August 2020
C1114 Park House to C1115, Near Pencombe
[Between Marsh Court joint and Park House, as marked]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 11 August 2020 (No road markings)
C1064 B4214 to U65018, Collington
[Between Field Farm House at joint to junction at point]Surface Dressing – Tuesday, 11 August 2020
White Lining – Tuesday, 18 August 2020
U73411 Pinnocks Place, Allensmore (Sites 1 and 2)
[Between Crossroads opposite Bell View and Crossroads]Surface Dressing – Monday, 10 August 2020
White Lining – Tuesday, 18 August 2020
U75238 Watery Lane, Near Hay on Wye
[Between Crossroads opposite Bell View and junction at Frog Lane]Surface Dressing – Monday, 10 August 2020
White Lining – Monday, 17 August 2020
U74200 Upper Maes Coed, St Margarets
[Between Cadifor Farm and Iron Pear Tree]Surface Dressing – Monday, 10 August 2020
White Lining – Monday, 17 August 2020
U65022 The Gains Road, Linley Green
[Between Stone House at junction and Farm, top of hill]Surface Dressing – Wednesday, 12 August 2020
White Lining – Wednesday, 19 August 2020
U74209 Tremorithic Road, Bacton (Sites 1 and 2)
[Between Hilling Grange Farm at joint and Fair Oak Farm at joint]Surface Dressing – Monday, 10 August 2020 (No road markings)
New Roundabout Construction
A4110/B4529 Lawtons Cross, Mortimer
Roads closed from Monday, 24 August 2020 to (and including) Friday, 30 October 2020
A combination of full road closures 24/7 and traffic signals in operation – further details to follow soon
Bridge Works
C1122 – Laystone Bridge, Marden (C1122 from C1120 to Wellington Crossing, Marden) – No access for emergency vehicles during the road closure
Monday, 22 June 2020 to (and including) Friday, 17 July 2020
Full road closure 24/7
Installation of scaffolding and bridge parapet wall repair
U75232 – Pont-y-Weston Bridge, Dorstone
Tuesday, 18 August 2020 to (and including) Tuesday, 25 August 2020
Building sandbag walls either side of water course to isolate. Removing excess silt build up. Building new concrete invert and repairing scour under abutment.
Other Road Closures
C1257 – Symonds Yat West Road (Ferrie Lane)
Road closed until further notice
B4224 – Fiddlers Green, Fownhope
Structural wall failure and landslip
Full road closure in place until further notice
U71411 – Garway Court Lane
Carriageway deterioration
Full road closure in place until Wednesday, 15 July 2020
June 2020
What is the annual canvass?
The purpose of the canvass is to identify everyone who should be on the electoral register. This means identifying citizens and inviting those who should be registered but are currently not to join the register, as well as identifying electors who are no longer at a property and should therefore be removed from the register. A revised version of the electoral register must be published by 1 December each year, following the conclusion of the annual canvass. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments are looking to implement legislation that extends the deadline for publication of the register to 1 February 2021.
Previously, Electoral Registration Offices (EROs)[1] in Great Britain were required to send every household an annual canvass form, which required a response regardless of whether there have been any changes in the household. EROs were also required to follow up any non-responses with a further two reminder forms and carry out a household visit, if required.
Why did the canvass need to change?
This previous canvass process was widely recognised to be outdated and cumbersome. The one-size-fits-all approach, incorporating numerous prescribed steps, took little account of differences within and between registration areas. It was heavily paper-based, expensive, complex to administer and it stifled innovation. It was also clear that the process led to confusion for citizens. As a result, the UK, Scottish and Welsh governments passed legislation to update the canvass process. This project is known as ‘canvass reform’.
What is the purpose of canvass reform?
Given the previous limitations of the canvass process, the purpose of canvass reform is:
What does this mean for elected members?
For elected members, the most important message is to understand the nature and purpose of the reforms and their impact on the public and the ERO for your local authority, as outlined in the different sections below. This should enable you to manage any questions you might receive about the reforms specifically as well any questions about the canvass in general.
To best equip you for any questions from the public, we would recommend speaking to your ERO to understand how the canvass is being run in your area, as the canvass is tailored to each area and timings and contact methods will vary.
What does this mean for senior leaders within the council?
Likewise, if you are a senior leader, you should make sure you have a solid understanding of the reformed canvass process and what it means for the public and your electoral services team.
Beyond that, your ERO and their team will be best placed to advise on how you can help. We anticipate they will need your support in working with teams across your authority including IT infrastructure and communications teams, plus teams holding local data, such as Council Tax, Housing and the Register Office. This will not only support EROs this year when faced with the challenge of coronavirus, but subsequent years when they continue to deliver the reformed canvass.
Canvass reform is designed to enable EROs to modernise the canvass process; reduce administrative burden and include the capacity for innovation and improvement. Future change will be easier if EROs can access the datasets they need to conduct local data matching; to source relevant contact details; and also to data mine for new additions and deletions to the register. Your influence and support could be incredibly useful in enabling them to meet their most fundamental statutory requirement: safeguarding the completeness and accuracy of the electoral registers.
How is the reformed canvass different?
The reformed canvass process incorporates a ‘data matching step’ at the start in which registered electors are compared against datasets to see if they match. EROs are required to conduct ‘national data matching’ against data held by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and have the option to conduct ‘local data matching’ against local data sources such as council tax data. The results of this process then informs EROs whether the elector(s) living in each property are likely to have changed or not. If the results show that the elector(s) in a property matches the national or local dataset, then EROs have the discretion to canvass that property through a streamlined canvass process (Route 1) where a response is only required if there is a change to report. As a result, EROs do not need to ‘chase’ these Route 1 properties for a response.
This allows EROs to concentrate their resources on the properties where the data matching indicated that a change was likely (‘Route 2’). This ‘unmatched’ group of properties are required to respond to the canvass communications they receive from their ERO, and the ERO is required to make a minimum of three contact attempts where they do not receive a response.
In addition, the reformed canvass enables EROs to use modern communications channels. In contrast to the old canvass process – in which the law only allowed for paper forms and household visits within the chasing cycle – EROs can now conduct telephone canvassing instead of household visits and send e-communications (e.g. emails and text) instead of using paper forms.
These additional communication channels will hopefully promote increased volumes of online registration.
Further changes to the canvass include but are not limited to:
Through these changes, the reformed canvass provides a more modernised, efficient and streamlined approach. It moves away from the one-size-fits-all process and allows EROs to adapt their canvassing process to suit the needs of their registration areas and to concentrate their resources on the properties that are likely to benefit most.
Moreover, canvass reform is expected to see significant savings for taxpayers in future years, providing an average saving of over £20m annually, over a ten year period, across Great Britain.
What does this mean for electors?
Canvass reform has made the process simpler and clearer for citizens as electors in properties where a change is unlikely – based on data matching results – now only have to respond to canvass communications if they have a change to report. In addition, through the introduction of e-communications and updated messaging on paper forms, electors who do need to report a change are encouraged to provide their response online, rather than having to fill out and post back a paper form.
The reform also continues to ensure that everyone entitled to register to vote has the right to participate in the democratic process by requiring EROs to contact every household in Great Britain at least once within the canvass process.
Some local authorities and valuation joint boards in Scotland will be running public awareness campaigns to highlight the changes and encourage people to respond to email and telephone canvassing. This is particularly important for the 2020 canvass as it may reduce the need for household visits, which presents challenges due to the coronavirus pandemic and the need for social distancing.
What does this mean for your electoral administrators?
The reform to the annual canvass is important in allowing EROs to adapt and tailor their canvass process to best suit their registration areas. Whereas EROs may have previously been able to update and adapt last years’ canvass plans, in 2020 EROs will create a new canvass plan based within the new legal framework.
This new plan will differ from before by treating some property groups differently, based on the results of data matching, and so it should enable EROs to concentrate their resources on properties where a change in electors at a property is more likely.
The plan will also differ by requiring EROs to choose communication methods from a wider range of options based on the needs of their area. Depending on what decision is made, EROs may then need to go through a data gathering exercise to ensure they have the contact details they need to conduct the canvass in the most appropriate way.
These canvass plans will then need to be reviewed year by year as EROs learn what works best in their area.
In 2020, EROs will also need to conduct national data matching for the first time in a live environment and then continue to go through this exercise annually before starting their canvass. Each year they can also choose to conduct local data matching to supplement the results of the national data match. By opting to do local data matching, EROs may be able to ‘top up’ the results of the national data matching, which would enable them to canvass more properties using the streamlined route.
All this has major implications on the training of staff; recruitment of temporary staff; team resources and updating the processes in place for managing responses to canvass communications.
It is worth highlighting that EROs are having to manage all this change at a time of the increased pressure placed on working environments caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This creates a particular strain for the requirement to conduct household visits where telephone canvassing is not possible.
The Cabinet Office and our partners have been working with EROs to prepare them for the changes needed to implement canvass reform including training, advice and guidance. This includes working with the Electoral Commission and others on guidance to help administrators with the decisions they may need to take to manage the particular challenges faced locally and nationally as a result of the current public health situation. You can find this Guidance online here: England, Scotland and Wales.
[1] As an ERO’s duties may, in practice, be carried out by deputies and/or appointed staff, we use the term ‘ERO’ throughout this guidance to mean the ERO and whoever is carrying out the ERO’s functions on their behalf.
Due to the ongoing pandemic the paper copy of the CCN is not being delivered this month. We do however have an electronic version that you can download from the website:
BUSINESS SUPPORT AND
COVID-19 ADVICE
Offering FREE one to one support services for
businesses, in partnership with Herefordshire Council the Marches Growth Hub –
Herefordshire is a place where businesses can find out more about funding and
finance and wider business support available to local Herefordshire businesses,
regardless of size or sector, from pre-start to established businesses.
The Marches Growth Hub would like to
share the following information with businesses who are concerned about the
impact that COVID-19 will have on our business community.
https://www.marchesgrowthhub.co.uk/advice-and-support/coronavirus-information-for-businesses/
GOVERNMENT AND COUNCIL SUPPORT – updated
26th March 2020
A full range of business support measures have been made available
to UK businesses and employees.
This page helps businesses find out how to access the support that has been
made available, who is eligible, when the schemes open and how to apply.
https://www.businesssupport.gov.uk/coronavirus-business-support/
MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING ADVICE
Every Mind Matters – https://www.wisherefordshire.org/mentalhealth
BUSINESS RESILIENCE
Emergency Planning Team Herefordshire Council (Business
Continuity)
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/info/200139/community/346/emergency_planning_in_herefordshire/5
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have cancelled all public worship until further notice. This means that all regular services are cancelled. However, St Mary’s Church here in Credenhill will remain open for private prayer and there are prayer leaflets available to take away.
We have also set up a confidential telephone support system, operated by volunteers from the church, for anyone in the parish who needs someone to talk about any issues they are going through.
Please ring Rana on 01432 760443 to access this. The church continues to pray for all who are affected by coronavirus COVID19 in any way.
The Mothers Day Service will be contucted online via a live video to the Magnis Group Facebook Page
Please see below message from Herefordshire Council:
Herefordshire Council want to continue to provide support to the community who have been affected by the local flooding and have been coordinating volunteers to provide free advice & guidance to residents regarding available grants, help & guidance around emergency clean-up, lifting of damaged furniture to kerbside in readiness for collection.
Over the last week we have deployed support to the following areas Leominster, Holme Lacy, Ross-on-Wye, Holmer Road, Hinton Road, Greyfriars, Pontrilas & Ewyas Harold, Bodenham, Bromyard, Whitchurch, Hampton Bishop, Mordiford and Wellington.
If there are other residents or businesses in your local area that require support, we ask that you email our team via this e-mail address (talkcommunitycleanup@herefordshire.gov.uk) providing their name, address, contact number and the support required – we will then work to co-ordinate the support over the coming week.
This will be continually reassessed based on the changing weather conditions and based on intelligence received.
There is also alot of information on Herefordshire Councils website in relation to those affected by flooding:
https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/homepage/69/flooding_emergency/
The 2020/21 Grounds Maintenance contracts are now available for prospective suppliers to tender for; closing date is 28th February 2020.