Have your say on conservation

Wychavon are reviewing the Uphampton 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  (3.04 MB) and is 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.    

It is difficult to certain about the origins of Uphampton but it may have begun as a homestead consisting of one or two farms in the 16^th century. As part of the large parish of Ombersley, Uphampton was in the hands of Evesham Abbey from the 8^th century until the Dissolution. It was granted to Sir Samuel Sandys, eldest son of Edwin, Bishop of Worcester in 1594.  Earliest surviving houses, cottages and farm buildings in the conservation area date from the late 16^th and early 17^th centuries. A period of prosperity in the 18/19^th centuries saw much of the hamlet planted with orchard and the largest houses were built.

A Public Meeting was held at Ombersley Memorial Hall on the 23^rd September starting a formal consultation period which ends on 31^st October. 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 Memorial Hall Ombersley during normal opening hours.

Contact: Elaine Artherton on 01386 565323 or email elaine.artherton@wychavon.gov.uk