If you go down to the woods today, you won’t find hot tubs. At least not near Ludlow. The application from Forest Holidays for cabins in Mortimer Forest is not to go ahead. The project’s webpage has been deleted. That’s great. But we need to think about how to manage tourism in the Mortimer Forest […]
Month: September 2018
Network Rail thinks Ludlow is in Oxfordshire – it’s a joke – oh no, it’s not! (updated)
In what must be one of the most bizarre actions by an office bound railway official, Network Rail has written to residents in Steventon on the outskirts of Ludlow telling them that it needs to undertake work on parish’s railway bridge. So far, so good. But Ludford residents became suspicious when they read references to […]
An update on the Mortimer Forest Cabins – is the tide turning against this project?
This is a brief update to collate a few diverse matters relating to this project. They concern the review by Defra, delays in submitting the planning application and doubts about whether the Forestry Commission is achieving value for money by its relationship with Forest Holidays. The breaking news is that English Heritage has withdrawn from […]
The Ludlow mural project in images
We did it. Five weeks from conception to completion. Just ten days on site. An eyesore is now a head turner. Below are images of the project in progress and completed. Our thanks to Morris Property for funding the project. Also to Shropshire Council for providing youth workers for the Young Zone. A huge part […]
It was the ugly, the bad and the good – yesterday’s Shropshire Council meeting
Councillors met in Shirehall yesterday for business that lasted more than three hours. There were good moments in this meeting but also the ugliest moment I have witnessed in my time as a councillor, or before. It was political, it was nasty and it was totally unnecessary.