04/12/2025
LATEST UPDATE! I honestly can’t thank you all enough. Because of your input as a community over 90 emails have been sent to Herefordshire Council. From this we secured an onsite meeting for which I had been trying to get since early 2025.
The result from the meeting is that the closure and demolition notice has been revoked, we have now have route forward!
We’re excited to move forward even though it feels like we’re paying to monitor HC’s pollution.
- Next steps: A specialist team will be onsite for 3–4 days to monitor ground gases that might be escaping from the Council’s landfill. If nothing is found we submit the results to show their pollution isn’t there at all, and that box is ticked.
If something is detected: we’ll need to bore under the café and install venting pipes to safely release any gases. Not ideal, but hope we can all agree its way more positive than losing the café.
Thank you again to every single person local business and more who emailed, the council without you we would be in a world of stress..you made this happen!
Finally another huge shout-out to the Ross Town Councillors — especially Danny Lister, Milly Boylan, and Katie Fowler Ed Driscoll for going above and beyond throughout this whole situation. We’re so grateful for you all. We’ll keep everyone updated as things progress. 🙏
