Malvern Hills District Council run a scheme to encourage members of the public to keep areas where they live clean and tidy by removing rubbish from an area or street at least four times a year on dates of your choosing.
You can find further information and join the Malvern Hills Adopt a Street scheme by going to the page here:
John Campion, Police and Crime Commissioner for West Mercia Police, has launched a consultation to seek the views of residents of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and Worcestershire on Government proposals to merge police forces across England and Wales.
The Government announced that an independent review into these proposals would be carried out, which could see the existing structure of 43 police forces reduce to 12. This would be the biggest change to policing in more than six decades.
Links to the consultation and further information are available below:
Consultation – Public consultation – police force mergers
Website – Public consultation – police force mergers | West Mercia PCC
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
(U62202 Stoney Ley, Broadwas) (Temporary Closure) Order 2026
Proposed Order: to close that part of U62202 Stoney Ley from its junction with A44 Broadwas to its junction with C2235 Munns Green.
Reason: Carriageway patching by WCC
Exemptions: to permit access to any land or premises fronting the highway affected where there is no other form of access; and to allow the works to be undertaken.
Alternative route: A44 Broadwas, A44 Doddenham, C2235 Doddenham, C2235 Munns Green and vice versa.
Maximum duration: 18 Months. Anticipated duration: 3 days between 23 March 2026 and 2 April 2026
Local government reorganisation will bring significant and lasting changes to the councils
that provide essential services to residents and businesses.
The Government intends to abolish the existing two-tier structure of county and district
councils and replace it with a unitary arrangement that will deliver all services provided by
the current councils. The new arrangement will come into force in April 2028.
There are two proposals for the creation of unitary local government in Worcestershire:
Transforming Worcestershire (supported by Worcester City, Bromsgrove District, Redditch
Borough, Malvern Hills District and Wychavon District councils) proposes to create two
unitary councils. Under this model, one authority would serve the south of the county –
Worcester, Malvern Hills and Wychavon – while another would cover the north, covering
Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wyre Forest.
One Worcestershire – An alternative proposal for a single unitary council for Worcestershire
has also been submitted by Worcestershire County Council and Wyre Forest District Council.
This would bring all services under one authority, replacing the county and district councils.
We are supporting the Transforming Worcestershire option. This is based on the responses
to our Shape Worcestershire public engagement exercise carried out last summer along with
the options appraisal work that we undertook.
The responses to the public engagement exercise indicated a desire for local identity to be
reflected in the new arrangements and for decisions to be made at a local level. By creating
separate south and north unitary authorities, the Transforming Worcestershire proposal
seeks to deliver this.
You can find out more about Transforming Worcestershire, and the alternative One
Worcestershire proposal, at www.transformingworcestershire.co.uk.
The public consultation is open now and runs until 26 March.
Take part at www.gov.uk/government/consultations/local-government-reorganisation-in
worcestershire
The February update from West Mercia Police
PUBLIC NOTICE
ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984 – SECTION 14 (AS AMENDED)
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF THE CLOSURE OF C2252 BROADWAS, WICHENFORD , WORCESTERSHIRE (“THE HIGHWAY”)
Reason for restriction: Restoring customer service. There is a need to close the highway in the following terms:-
Nothing in this Notice shall prevent at any time access for pedestrians to any premises situated on or adjacent to the highway, or to any other premises accessible for pedestrians from and only from the highway.
THOMAS POLLOCK
Head of Commercial Law (Legal & Governance)
Date 20 January 2026
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
(A44 Bromyard Road, Cotheridge) (Temporary 40 M.P.H Speed Limit) Order 2026
Order made: to impose a 40 mph temporary speed limit on that part of A44 Bromyard Rd from its junction with Howsen Farm (NSG Ref 24411904) for a distance of 712 metres in a north westerly direction and in both directions
Reason: Replace water main by STW
Exemptions: Special Forces Vehicles
Maximum duration: 18 Months continuing from 7 January 2026 Anticipated Duration: 96 days (24hr)
Thomas Pollock Head of Commercial Law (Legal & Governance) County Hall Spetchley Road Worcester
22 January 2026
WORCESTERSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
PUBLIC NOTICE
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
(U62202 Stoney Ley, Broadwas) (Temporary Closure) Order 2025
Proposed Order: to close that part of U62202 Stoney Ley from its junction with A44 Broadwas to its junction with C2235 Munns Green.
Reason: Pole replacement by Openreach
Exemptions: to permit access to any land or premises fronting the highway affected where there is no other form of access; and to allow the works to be undertaken.
Alternative route: A44 Broadwas, A44 Doddenham, C2235 Doddenham, C2235 Munns Green, U62202 Stoney Ley (part) and vice versa.
Anticipated duration: 1 day Commencing: 27 November 2025
Road Closure, C2240 Little Green, Broadwas.
Order made: to close that part of C2240 Little Green from its junction with A44 Broadwas
to its junction with C2240 Weston Hill.
Reason: Boundary box renewal by STW.
Exemptions: to permit access to any land or premises fronting the highway affected where there is no other form of access; and to allow the works to be undertaken.
Alternative route: C2240 Little Green (part), A44 Broadwas, C2240 Weston Hill and vice versa.
For 2 day commencing 20th November 2025
