Current Consultations

Tell us what you think!

Like all councils, we are committed to consulting on specific areas of our service delivery. This allows service users and other interested parties to have the opportunity to be involved in planning, prioritising and monitoring of our services. It also gives you, our customers, the means to research satisfaction with our service delivery and opinions about specific projects.

Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Testing Consultation

Hackney Carriage and private hire taxi

Worcester City Council is responsible for the licensing and enforcement of hackney carriages (taxis) and private hire vehicles, drivers and operators.

The Council is currently reviewing the vehicle testing arrangement in place at their appointed garage for licensed vehicles.  As such, we are interested in hearing the views of existing licence holders, businesses representatives, regulatory bodies and the general public on the proposal to increase the number of vehicle compliance tests. 

If you would like to have your say please complete this short survey.

You can request a paper copy of the consultation by contacting Worcestershire Regulatory Services by email at wrsenquiries@worcsregservices.gov.uk or telephone on 01905 822799.

Written responses should be returned to:

Hackney Carriage and Private Hire Vehicle Testing Consultation – Worcester City
Worcestershire Regulatory Services,
The Guildhall,
High Street,
Worcester,
WR1 2EY.

All responses are anonymous and no information will be passed on to third parties.

The deadline for responses is 25 April 2016.

Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations Consultation

The south Worcestershire councils are currently consulting on Preferred Options for the Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Allocations DPD.  This document will allocate land to meet the new for Travellers’ sites. 

The consultation runs until 5pm on Monday 25th April 2016.  Further information is available form the South Worcestershire Development Plan web-site.

Draft Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Consultation

The south Worcestershire councils are consulting on an Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).  The Affordable Housing SPD explains the details of the South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) policies that relate to the provision of affordable housing. It is a guide intended to help developers, landowners, applicants for planning permission, Registered providers (RPs) and others who are seeking to provide or benefit from affordable housing. 

The consultation runs until 5pm on Monday 25th April 2016.  Further details are available from the South Worcestershire Development Plan web-site.

 

Other consultation facilities

Past consultation results

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