Matters Latest news from Stourport-on-Severn February 2021 What does it mean for Localism - Stourport? Your Conservative Councillors • The Riverside public toilets The Town Council is considering the have always supported the (sometime in the future, when possibility of staging events (which localism agenda, believing that if the details have been agreed include the Rock and Roll, and the Wyre Forest District Council with the District Council), Country and Western,) which may works with the towns and • Stourport Community Centre re-start in 2022. parishes, the facilities we enjoy (when the lease expires in June). can be retained and improved. • The freehold of the Elizabeth The Town Council has not agreed to How disappointing is it then that Mills Centre. take on: the “Progressive Alliance” sees • The Paddling Pool (operation • the Riverside, which has not yet localism as a means of dumping and maintenance, but not its been discussed with the District services that it no longer wants to freehold which is part of the Council (and concerns include be burdened with funding! Riverside). the floods and cleaning up after them, the trees, and the five The Town Council has co-operated leasehold commercial with the District Council and concessions); agreed to take on: • the Sports Club (almost entirely used by the High School); • Lloyd’s Meadow (on the right • the Nature Reserves (as the bank opposite the Civic Town Council lacks the Centre); necessary expertise and is • Foundry Street (by the canal concerned about costs). including six trees); • Britannia Gardens (the play Cllr Paul Harrison by the paddling pool which the Town Council has area, not the nature reserve). taken over from the District Council

We hear much about planting trees to help with our Trees for the Future environment and sustain our planet. Last year, County Councillor Chris Rogers provided funding for 500 trees at Burlish Top. Both County Councillors, Chris Rogers and Paul Harrison, fully support the Conservative led County Council’s project at the former Droppings Well Farm, between Burlish Top and the Rifle Range, in becoming a new forest. This project is supported by The Woodland Trust.

The Conservative Government is committed to leaving this planet in a stronger environmental position for future generations and in 2019/20 1956 hectares of land were newly Cllr Chris Rogers at the Burlish Top plantation planted with trees in England with support from Central Government.

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Thank you to our NHS team In Herefordshire and Worcestershire at Stourport Health Centre We want to thank all the keyworkers in Stourport who are working throughout the pandemic and congratulate the team at Stourport Health Centre. Here in Stourport due to the commitment and hardwork of all concerned we had one of the first practices in the country to roll out the pfizer vaccine. Future of Bridge Street Your local Conservative group appropriate development in the welcomed the planning decision heart of our Town, whilst to refuse the Bridge Street site continuing to guard against this as an unsuitable application for a site being sold off to anyone who hostel. It would not have served wishes to come up with yet the local community for which this another inappropriate site was initially purchased for or development. What a shame that provide a suitable location for this ill-conceived plan was a essential services for potential guests of the hostel. complete waste of £119,000 of public money by the current Your local Conservative Councillors coalition controlled district council. will continue to push for a more

Housing Approved For Derelict Site £1million investment Your local Conservative Group are for Hoobrook Island delighted that at last the former Carpets of Worth site on Severn Road is finally Whilst the Hoobrook Island isn’t in going to be developed with housing Stourport, located at the end of Wilden which is so desperately needed. It’s Lane, it’s definitely a route used by been a long time happening, but we hope worth waiting for. many Stourport residents when going to Kidderminster and many other Low Energy Lights places. It is therefore a great relief that Majority of Stourport’s street lights have the Conservative led County Council now been replaced with LED low energy are investing in the improvement of this lights. They produce more light, require major junction. We won’t miss sitting in less maintenance and the biggest bonus a queue to get out of Wilden Lane. of all, require only 10% of the electricity to run -saving your money and reducing our carbon footprint.

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