Wyre Forest District Council provides a variety of Planning and
Environmental services. These include:
Planning
The Building Control team is responsible for the
administration of the Building Regulations ensuring that
construction work meets the requirements of the Building Act
1984.
The Development Control team process planning and
other similar applications for development and answer enquiries
regarding the need for planning permission. The team also deals
with breaches of planning control through its enforcement duties
and matters related to trees and hedges.
The Environmental Health and Licensing
team protect the health of the community, ensuring a clean and safe
environment by monitoring food safety standards, health and safety
requirements, pollution control, the control of infectious diseases
and the implementation of the statutory licensing regime.
The Planning Policy team set the planning
policy ‘blue print’ for the future development of the district. The
team are responsible for the Wyre Forest District Local Plan and
the new Local Development Framework.
The Council sold all of its housing stock in April 2000 to
The Community Housing Group, (a
local Housing Association). However, the Council still retains
important housing responsibilities as the Local Housing
Authority.
Environment
Our Environmental service teams will respond to reports of
abandoned vehicles and stray dogs.
Our Pest Control Officers will provide free domestic
pest control and the eradication of any pests that are considered
to be a threat to public health, for example rats, mice, fleas, bed
bugs and cockroaches.
The Pollution Control team deal with a variety of
pollution complaints including industrial air pollution, noise
nusiance and contaminated land.
The Council operates a weekly kerbside recycling scheme and a fortnightly
domestic refuse collection services throughout the district.
View Bin Collection
Days.
Regeneration
The Regeneration and Economic Prosperity team work in
partnership with public and private stakeholders to deliver
effective district-wide regeneration, economic
development and sustainable tourism. The team work with partners
to help improve the social, environmental and economic wellbeing of
the District and to ensure that it is an attractive and prosperous
place to live, work and visit.
The Section works in partnership with Stourport
Forward and Bewdley
Development Trust in managing and implementing funding received
from the Market Towns Initiative – a scheme to
support the viability and prosperity of these towns.
The Section is also developing the ReWyre Initiative aimed
at highlighting the challenges and opportunities for the town
whilst promoting the exciting benefits of Kidderminster to
prospective investors. The document will help to provide a
blueprint for the future of the town and aims to build on existing
partnership work including the Oldington & Foley
Park Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder; Horsefair, Broadwaters
& Greenhill Partnership; and Kidderminster Town Centre
Partnership.
Rural Regeneration is also a key priority and is
concerned with safeguarding and enhancing the District’s rural
communities and businesses.
The Section also offers support for the District’s businesses and provides a range of free
services and advice aimed at supporting and
encouraging economic activity.
The Section deals with Tourism and supports the Destination
Worcestershire Marketing Partnership in promoting the District
as an attractive tourist destination.
Customer Services
The Council has a Customer Services Strategy which sets out how
we will deal with our customers. Some teams have more detailed
standards for their service which can be found on their respective
pages of the website.
