A NATIONAL property consultancy has been appointed by Edgar Street Grid (ESG) bosses to provide compulsory purchase advice.

The 100-acre city centre Edgar Street Grid project is intended to bring new roads, leisure facilities and retail outlets – along with hundreds of new jobs – to Hereford.

Lambert Smith Hampton will help ESG Herefordshire with land assembly services in relation to the buying of land to be used for the grid’s link road.

The property experts have also released an aerial shot of the planned £200 million, 100-acre regeneration area, highlighting the route of the link road, which will stretch from Edgar Street to the Station Approach junction at the bottom of Aylestone Hill.

Andrew Cook, of Lambert Smith Hampton, said: “This is a significant regeneration project. To date, development and expansion of Hereford has been somewhat constrained by Newmarket Street and Blueschool Street and the new link road will help to overcome this.

“The overall scheme will have a very positive impact on Hereford.”

Meanwhile, work has now begun on another important section of the grid.

Demolition of warehouse units on Coningsby Street has started on land which will house new homes in the urban village. Sanctuary Housing will manage the village’s development and will unveil plans for it later this year.

A separate unit is being temporarily leased to the Freedom Church until the site is needed for the development.