General Notices

Have your say on conservation

Wychavon are reviewing the Crowle Conservation Area to ensure it continues to protect this important area including making more of the village part of it.

Wychavon are looking to change the conservation area boundary by publishing a Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Plan, part of a continued review of conservation areas in the district.

The appraisal identifies the special interest of the conservation area and will be taken into account when planning applications in the area are considered.

The management plan looks at how the preservation or enhancement of the conservation area can be best achieved in future.

The village was likely to have been planned in medieval times, it is mentioned in Domesday. At that time it was held by the Priory of Worcester, the monks probably used the manor house as a summer retreat (the large moated area is a Scheduled Ancient Monument). Crowle was a prosperous farming community which had diversified into fruit growing by the 19th century followed by a period of rapid expansion in the 20th century.

A Public Meeting will be held at Crowle Parish Hall on Tuesday 7th April at 6.30pm starting a formal consultation period which ends on Tuesday 19th May. Information and on-line comments form will be available on our website at www.wychavon.gov.uk at the Civic Centre, Pershore, Droitwich Contact Centre and library and at The Parish Hall Crowle during normal opening hours.

NOTICE OF PRE-APPLICATION PUBLIC CONSULTATION EVENT

Forthcoming planning application for land east of M5 motorway, south of Junction 6, accessed via Pershore Lane. Strategic employment site, with B1 (business), B2 (general industrial) and ancillary B8 (storage & distribution) uses. The Planning Application will be made to Wychavon District Council.

The public are invited to visit the consultation events which will be held on the following dates:

LYPPARD GRANGE COMMUNITY CENTRE, Warndon – Friday 16th January 2009: 4:00 – 7:30pm

LYPPARD GRANGE COMMUNITY CENTRE, Warndon – Saturday 17th January 2009: 12:00 – 4:00pm

TIBBERTON VILLAGE HALL, Tibberton – Friday 23rd January 2009: 4:00 – 7:30pm

TIBBERTON VILLAGE HALL, Tibberton – Saturday 24th January 2009: 12:00 – 4:00pm

MEMBERS OF THE PROJECT TEAM WILL BE ON HAND TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS AND DISCUSS YOUR VIEWS THROUGHOUT EACH EVENT

For further information please contact Joanne Russell, Barton Willmore 0121 711 5154

SmartWater in Crowle By the time you read this, the first bulk order for SmartWater packs will have been placed with the police, thanks to the excellent initial response from all parts of the village. For the benefit of anyone who missed their August Cryer due to holidays, etc, please look for and read the leaflet that was enclosed in it, plus the article giving more information about this high tech forensic property marking product. Like all the best things in life, Smart Water is not free, but for a one-time payment of just £20 you get a lifetime registration of your own unique marking system.

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If you would like to know more, or just want to join your neighbours who have already ordered their SmartWater packs, contact your Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinator or if unable to do so contact Jeremy Thomas on 381296 or jeremy.crowle@virgin.net, who is already preparing the next bulk order.

Jeremy Thomas

Cryers are in PDF format, are about 1MB in size and will take up to 5 minutes to download on a dial-up connection

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