EVERY week, leading figures from Edgar Street have their say. Director Bob Pritchard provides an update on the stadium redevelopment.

CHAIRMAN David Keyte and I have had successful meetings with our advisors.

We are attending a further meeting with all parties to go through the final draft lease and the surrender of the existing lease on April 29 when we will look at the two commercial leases on the Blackfriars End and Meadow End projects.

We have agreed with Herefordshire Council that all documents will be available for signing and engrossment by the end of May, providing there are no outstanding issues.

So when we start back for pre-season training, we should have secured a new 30-year lease with an extension for 220 years when we enter into an agreement with an end-user for the commercial or residential developments at the Blackfriars or Meadow End.

We have held several meetings with interested parties on the Blackfriars End development and hope to be working with an end-user by the end of 2013 to seek an acceptable planning approval during 2014.

I have been liaising with Hereford Futures and Sanctuary Housing on the Meadow End project and Sanctuary have made an outline planning application for residential development which will consider the development of the residue land behind the stadium.

Representations have been made to the planning authority on the development and its master plan.

I have requested that our site should be included within the boundary of the application area so that a comprehensive consent can be granted and included within a development agreement.

Our site should be fully serviced on the boundary with an adoptable road and drainage at no cost to the club.

As the site is, relatively, a long, narrow strip then the best use would be to design and include it within the larger site to maximise value. I have prepared a development plan for the site showing an apartment scheme, and this is with the planning authority for comments.

We are working with life-time supporter Alan Edge who has offered his time, and the practice of CS2 in cooperation with Andarchitects, to work on the stadium design of the two stands.

We hope to receive their proposals and cost plans by the end of the month which will go a long way to confirming our strategy.

The pitch maintenance fund is taking shape but it is important to raise as much money as possible as soon as we can to get the drainage works under way in May to prepare for the friendlies in July.

So all supporters who want to participate, please sign up now and help subscribe to these works which are going to cost around £40,000.

This expenditure will avoid the problems of this season’s severe weather conditions, and provide a permanent drainage solution.

Negotiations are ongoing on Belmont and Victoria Park to secure joint-use agreements and long leases for the training facilities at the club and we hope to be in a position to submit our joint planning application with the Canal Trust at Aylestone Park very soon on behalf of the club’s Community Trust Project.

There’s a lot to do and conclude with the new season not far away, so let’s get behind the club in these difficult times, and let’s look forward to Martin Foyle putting a new and cost-effective team together for our Conference challenge next season.