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Worcester’s largest development project

Worcester’s landscape is changing creating jobs for local people and Work is well underway
as buildings begin to go up at the providing new opportunities, including at Sherriff’s Gate
Sherriff’s Gate site in Shrub Hill. The apprenticeships. The number of
scheme is the start of a £150 million workers at the site is expected to
project to transform the Shrub Hill area reach around 150 by the end of
and bring hundreds of jobs to the city. December.

The first phase of the scheme, the Included in the scheme will be the
building of 213 apartments, is now building of hundreds of new homes,
progressing swiftly. including affordable housing, plus a
hotel, gym, multi-storey car park, cafes
The work will be carried out in phases and restaurants, a multi-screen cinema
over the next three to four years, and ten-pin bowling.

Have your say on homes blueprint

for south Worcestershire

Now is the time for you through strategic growth
to have your say on a sites at Worcestershire
key planning document Parkway, Throckmorton,
that will shape the future Rushwick, and Mitton.
development of south
Worcestershire. The public are being asked
to comment on whether
The revised South they consider the review of
Worcestershire the South Worcestershire
Development Plan (SWDP) Development Plan is sound
has been jointly prepared and legally compliant.
by Worcester City, Malvern
District and Wychavon Comments can be made
councils, and allocates land until 11.59pm on Tuesday the provision of sites for Rushwick; together with
for 13,240 additional new 13 December 2022 at travellers and travelling sites on each of the urban
homes and 290.7 hectares www.swdevelopmentplan. showpeople. Again, the extensions at Worcester
of employment land, to be org. consultation runs until South and Worcester West.
delivered by 2041. December 13.
Once the consultation Interested parties are
This will help meet the closes, all comments will be A new Development being asked to comment
Government requirement passed on to the national Plan Document proposes on whether they believe
to allocate land to build Planning Inspectorate. A additional travellers’ pitches the Development Plan
26,360 new homes series of public hearings on two existing sites at Document is sound and
and 350.5 hectares of may also be held where Newlands in Malvern, and legally compliant.
employment land across those who have responded Charlton, near Pershore.
south Worcestershire from to this consultation will Two existing sites at To comment, go to www.
2021 to 2041. have the chance to make Aldington and Evesham are swdevelopmentplan.org
representations and ask also allocated in case the and select ‘Consultations’.
Not all sites in the revised questions. It is expected latest planning permissions Download and fill in the
Plan are new, with some the plan will be formally lapse. comment form, then submit
being carried over from the adopted by the three South it by email or by post.
last version of the SWDP Worcestershire councils in New sites are also
and sites that already have late 2023. proposed on the new and Paper copies for both
planning permission being expanded settlements consultations are also
taken into account. SITES FOR TRAVELLERS outlined in the revised available from customer
Worcester City, Malvern South Worcestershire contact centres (including
NEW HOUSING Hills District and Wychavon Development Plan (SWDP) the Guildhall), local libraries
The majority of the new District Councils are also at Worcestershire Parkway, and some parish and town
housing will be met inviting comments on Throckmorton, and council offices.

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