Investing in Hereford

A £300,000 investment is being made as part of a major initiative to boost power supplies in Hereford city centre.

We are committed to investing in our network to further improve supply reliability and customer service levels.

Maylord Shopping Centre will remain open and carry out business as usual throughout the works.

The first stage of this new initiative is due to start on February 1, 2016 and involves the installation of around 1,000m of underground cable along Gomand Street and the renewal of the service cables to each property. This is expected to take around four weeks to complete. The work will then continue to the rear of properties that front onto Maylord Street and High Town for a further two weeks.

A further section of cable in Maylord Shopping Centre Delivery Yards A-B is scheduled to be installed over the course of six consecutive weekends and the final section, along Maylord Shopping Centre Delivery Yard C and Blue School Street will be carried out in April 2016.

Once complete, this work will help to further safeguard supply reliability to around 400 customers in the area.

“It ensures that we can provide a high level of service to these areas in the long term by improving the infrastructure and security of our electricity network,” said John Goode, WPD’s Team Manager for the area.

The investment is also designed to better accommodate any increased demands placed on our power network in the future for additional developments.

“While this work is being undertaken, our aim is to keep any disruption to an absolute minimum. We have been speaking with Maylord Management Company to agree on the most appropriate time to carry out the work in order to minimise disruption to traffic in the area. We have also kept customers and businesses along the route informed by letter,” he said.

The project forms part of our commitment to provide a consistently high level of service to customers. Around £7 billion is being invested on our electricity network between 2015 and 2023.