A six-week public consultation has started on a key planning document that will shape the future development of south Worcestershire. The revised South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) allocates land for 13,240 additional new homes and 290.7 hectares of employment land to be delivered by 2041. This will help meet the Government requirement to...
New boundaries are being proposed for council wards in Worcester City Council. The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (LGBCE) wants to hear what residents and local organisations think about the proposals. A 10-week consultation on the proposals will run until 9 January 2023. The Commission is the independent body that draws thes...
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) has now confirmed there is avian influenza A(H5N1) in wild bird populations in Worcester. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is urging people not to touch any sick or dead wild birds following die off in wildfowl including swans at th...
Reducing carbon emissions from its leisure centres, boosting biodiversity along the city's waterways, improving recycling rates and launching a public bike hire scheme are among the measures planned as Worcester City Council forges ahead with action to help the city become carbon neutral. At November's Environment Committee meeting, councillor...
Around 30,000 car parking payments which have yet to be debited from customers' bank accounts are due to be processed this week Duplicate payments for parking sessions at Worcester's car parks have now all been dealt with, with payments expected to arrive in customers' bank accounts by the end of this week. However, around £57,000 in genuine car pa...
Proposals for more electric vehicle (EV) charging points in the city are to be considered by Worcester City Council's Environment Committee. A report to be considered on Tuesday 1 November sets out proposals of installing new charging terminals at car parks in Tallow Hill and King Street.The move will build on the success of the 12 EV charging poin...
Worcester City Council's Environment Committee is set to consider increasing the budget for work to control gull numbers in the city by £35,300 next year. The proposal is included in a report that will be considered by the committee on Tuesday 1 November, which sets out the impact of steps taken this year to keep the birds' population under control...
Refunds of duplicate car parking payments are now underway, with 183,000 payments expected to appear in customers' accounts by next week. Flowbird has confirmed to the Council that on Sunday October 16, all 56,000 duplicate payments made by Mastercard were processed, with the cash expected to arrive in bank accounts during the week commencing Monda...
Residents and visitors will be able to take a step back in time and see local history as they have never seen it before at a Virtual Time Travel Trail event later this month. The free event will see historic photos of Worcester and memories from local people projected on to three buildings in the city and there will be further internal light projec...
Residents in the Arboretum area are going green with a pay-as-you-go car share scheme. The Car Club vehicle, a low emission Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid, has been provided by Enterprise Car Club, and is parked at Worcester Baptist Church on Sansone Walk in the city centre. Residents wishing to use the car pay a small monthly fee and can then pre-book the c...