A red-letter day finally arrived for the Forum heritage team last Friday 5 April. The Heritage Team joined forces with some like minded residents and a representative from Woking Borough Council to conduct an assessment of the Aviary Road Conservation Area and spent a very interesting couple of hours touring this interesting area of Edwardian […]
HCA Update – April 2024
HCA Update – March 2024
Well, the big news this month is that we have completed arrangements for undertaking an assessment of the Aviary Road Conservation Area on 5 April. This will be the first time an assessment has been undertaken in the last 23 years and possibly the first time the community has taken the lead in arranging it. […]
HCA Update – February 2024
The project team have received updates of the work commissioned from Headland Archaeology and this will appear on the website in due course. The Heritage section of the website has been significantly re-organised to include project team terms of reference, team meeting minutes since the start of the project and project progress so take a […]
HCA Update – January 2024
In the last month the project team have been preparing for the assessment of our current conservation areas and receiving training on how best to do that from, Woking Borough Council. The main topic this month is to discuss the importance of maps to the project but we also have a snippet of heritage ,from […]
HCA Update – November 2023
HCA Update – August 2023
Since last we wrote the project team have been gearing up to conduct appraisals of the the Pyrford Conservation Area (St Nicholas’ Church area) and The Aviary Road Area. This has entailed deciding the methods to be used and settling the format of output from the appraisals. The method used will be based on the […]
What’s Next? – July 2023
CONSERVATION AREA ASSESSMENTS Right now the basic evidence gathering is done, or well underway, and we need to address the changes in our heritage and start formulating the recommendations to Woking Council about what we do about it. In particular, Pyrford includes two important Conservation Areas: one around St Nicholas Church and one around Aviary […]
HCA Update – July 2023
1. WHAT’s BEEN HAPPENING? It’s quite some time since we launched the Heritage Conservation Assessment project and it’s importance has been confirmed at successive AGMs since 2018. In essence the project team has been gathering a catalogue of key information sources and supporting the work of consultants to assess the current character of our Pyrford […]
HCA Update – August 2021
Post-Covid Update Background The Neighbourhood Plan (2017) concluded that Pyrford residents highly value the heritage and character of the local area in its semi-rural setting. In addition, we in Pyrford are fortunate to count a number of conservation minded residents who in recent years have made a significant investment in their heritage properties. Since no […]
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