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Wychavon’s Regeneration, Planning and Revenues
teams, and Worcestershire Regulatory Services are there
to provide Wychavon’s thriving business community
with a professional service.
Regeneration
The Regeneration Team
works with a range of
business support organisations to provide support
for businesses, town centres and the rural economy.
The team works to bring forward employment land and
business premises, and to attract inward investment.
Advice is also available on funding opportunities.
Services include: - business grants; commercial
premises search; economic data, employment
and investor reports, and economic assessments;
Business Guide and Wychavon Business News
bulletin; a range of town centre projects funded via
the Local Strategic Partnerships; support for a full
programme of promotional events including the
British Asparagus Festival in the Vale of Evesham,
Salt Festival in Droitwich Spa, and the Pershore Plum
Festival; tourism service, see
Planning
Planning
is responsible for delivering a wide range
of planning and building control services including: -
planning advice and pre-application discussions;
processing planning applications and dealing with
appeals; investigating and enforcing breaches of
planning control; processing applications for Listed
Building Consent and Conservation Area Consent;
providing advice and processing applications on
Building Regulations; Building Design Awards Scheme;
Local Plan policy – employment land allocations and
employment land protection policies; dealing with
Wychavon’s built and natural heritage, including
advice on listed buildings, Conservation Areas and
Tree Preservation Orders.
A weekly list of planning appeals, applications and
decisions is available on the Council’s website
together with details of all
current planning applications, and advice on making
a planning application. Also on the website are the
adopted Local Plan (published 2006) and various
supporting documents.
Currently the Development Plan consists of the
Wychavon District Local Plan. A replacement plan
known as the South Worcestershire Development
Plan (SWDP) is being prepared with the districts of
Malvern Hills and Worcester City, and Worcestershire
County Council. Delivering economic prosperity is
the overall aim of the SWDP. There will be a number
of allocations of land for employment use, protection
of existing employment sites plus a very positive
policy regarding small scale employment proposals i
the rural areas. The SWDP will run from 2006 – 2030
and it is anticipated that it will be adopted by the
summer of 2014.
For further information please
Phone: 01386 565565
Email:
Worcestershire Regulatory Services
Worcestershire Regulatory Services [WRS] was create
on 1 June 2010 to deliver Environmental Health, Tradin
Standards and Licensing functions throughout the
county in partnership not only with Wychavon District
Council but also Worcestershire County Council, and
the District Councils of Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills,
Redditch, Worcester City and Wyre Forest.
WRS is the first shared service of its kind in the count
to offer district and county functions through a single
service with the aim of improving service delivery and
saving money.
WRS provides Environmental Health, Trading
Standards and Licensing services to businesses
and consumers and its Officers continue to deliver
regulatory information, advice and support services
to new and existing businesses on all aspects of:
• Food safety (including information on starting and
registering a food business)
• Food standards
• Health and safety at work
• Product safety
• Weights and measures
• Licensing (including sale of alcohol)
• Environmental issues (including air, land, water
and nuisance)
• Public health
• Water and sewerage
• Trader obligations to consumers
• Selling goods and services both by retail and onlin
• Dog warden services
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