Consultations In Wychavon:

Your views are vital to us in providing the best services possible. That’s why consultation is so important and why it is good to know what you think about life in Wychavon and how we can make it better for you.

Investing in providing Community Safety Neighbourhood Wardens and mobile CCTV so we can help reduce crime and make you feel safer. We also piloted half price swimming for under 16's during the summer and invested in sports initiatives as activities for young people in the district as this was a priority for you too.

The pages in this section provide details about the variety of consultations held or taken part by Wychavon District Council including Waste Management, Budget and MORI Information.

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Current Consultations

Balancing the budget: have your say

We have some tough decisions to make about which services we can continue to provide and how we can generate more income.

We spend £10 million a year providing all sorts of services from parks to planning, from business support to emptying bins.

Since 2010 we have saved nearly £2 million. We have:

• saved over £800,000 on management and staffing costs
• saved £500,000 by sharing services with other councils and getting better deals on goods and services
• increased our income by £400,000 from rents on assets, like Waitrose in Droitwich Spa, and from car parking charges
• only made minor service reductions, like closing public toilets earlier and cutting grass verges less often, saving us £100,000.

We’ll continue to be as efficient as possible and we plan to reduce our management and staffing costs by another £200,000. But that won’t be enough.

Further government funding cuts mean that we need to save another £1.4 million over the next two years.

We want your views to help us make decisions when we come to set our budget for 2014/15 and beyond. If you are a Wychavon resident aged over 16, start the survey and have your say by clicking the next button below. If you want to respond as a business based in Wychavon, click here.