[{"id":5974,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2025\/03\/hca-update-march-2025\/","name":"hca-update-march-2025","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - March 2025","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Mar 31, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-03-31 09:52:01","modifiedDate":"2025-03-31 10:52:01","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-03-31 09:52:01","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":17},"status":"publish","content":"Much has been done to finalise key reports commissioned by our consultants on the project and we have recently circulated the conservation area survey results for both the Aviary Road area and the Pyrford Village area around St Nicholas' Church.\u00a0 Work has therefore started on preparing the final Conservation Area Assessments for these two areas."},{"id":5962,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2025\/03\/heritage-project-update-march-2025\/","name":"heritage-project-update-march-2025","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - February 2025","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Mar 13, 2025","dateGMT":"2025-03-13 13:53:03","modifiedDate":"2025-03-31 10:45:58","modifiedDateGMT":"2025-03-31 09:45:58","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":50},"status":"publish","content":"Project work broke off temporarily to prepare a response to the Woking Borough Council Draft Local Heritage Listing Consultation, held before Christmas. We had quite a number of points to make about the list and are monitoring it's progress through the council. Watch this space for how things go! The Heritage Project is now close to the final reporting stage"},{"id":4898,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/05\/hca-update-may-2024\/","name":"hca-update-may-2024","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - May 2024","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"May 27, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-05-27 17:05:27","modifiedDate":"2024-11-07 13:08:42","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-07 13:08:42","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":49},"status":"publish","content":"Our work at present is focused on assessing our two conservation areas: The Aviary Road Conservation Area and Pyrford Village Conservation Area.\u00a0 We can find no record of when this was last done and so guidance to planners to protect our heritage is potentially way out of date.\u00a0 The Heritage Project aims to rectify this situation as one of its"},{"id":4890,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/conservation-area-assessment\/","name":"conservation-area-assessment","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"Conservation Area Assessment","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 13:26:33","modifiedDate":"2024-11-07 13:08:54","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-07 13:08:54","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":54},"status":"publish","content":"A red-letter day finally arrived for the Forum heritage team last Friday 5 April.\u00a0 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 development. Built over the period"},{"id":4888,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/hca-update-april-2024\/","name":"hca-update-april-2024","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - April 2024","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:27:31","modifiedDate":"2024-11-07 13:09:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-07 13:09:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":59},"status":"publish","content":"The news this month is that we completed an assessment of the Aviary Road Conservation Area.\u00a0 A useful result of this work was that the question was asked why was it being done and what did we hope to achieve? The answer to the first question is that, for good reasons, places change over time and maybe the heritage importance"},{"id":4886,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/hca-update-march-2024\/","name":"hca-update-march-2024","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - March 2024","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:19:39","modifiedDate":"2024-11-07 13:09:16","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-11-07 13:09:16","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":32},"status":"publish","content":"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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Those of you who are"},{"id":4884,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/hca-update-february-2024\/","name":"hca-update-february-2024","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - February 2024","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:13:05","modifiedDate":"2024-04-21 13:15:29","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:15:29","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":22},"status":"publish","content":"The project team have received updates of the work commissioned from Headland Archaeology and this will appear on the website in due course.\u00a0 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 look at https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/heritage-project-team-minutes\/ for loads"},{"id":4882,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/hca-update-january-2024\/","name":"hca-update-january-2024","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - January 2024","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:10:37","modifiedDate":"2024-04-21 13:14:41","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:14:41","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":19},"status":"publish","content":"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 Tony Paice, about the origins"},{"id":4880,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2024\/04\/hca-update-november-2023\/","name":"hca-update-november-2023","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - November 2023","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Apr 21, 2024","dateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:05:40","modifiedDate":"2024-04-21 13:05:53","modifiedDateGMT":"2024-04-21 12:05:53","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":6},"status":"publish","content":"Most activity in the past two months has gone into preparing for the Conservation Area appraisals and arranging for appropriate training."},{"id":4152,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2023\/10\/hca-update-august-2023\/","name":"hca-update-august-2023","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - August 2023","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Oct 18, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-18 11:10:00","modifiedDate":"2023-10-18 16:57:04","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-10-18 15:57:04","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":28},"status":"publish","content":"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.\u00a0 This has entailed deciding the methods to be used and settling the format of output from the appraisals.\u00a0 The method used will be based on the Oxford Toolkit and the output"},{"id":4145,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2023\/10\/conservation-area-assessment-july-2023\/","name":"conservation-area-assessment-july-2023","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"What's Next? - July 2023","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Oct 16, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-15 23:11:28","modifiedDate":"2023-11-17 19:25:54","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-11-17 19:25:54","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":24},"status":"publish","content":"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 Road.\u00a0 These conservation areas have"},{"id":4143,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2023\/10\/hca-update-july-2023\/","name":"hca-update-july-2023","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - July 2023","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Oct 15, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-15 18:21:57","modifiedDate":"2023-11-17 19:27:21","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-11-17 19:27:21","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":0,"sec":55},"status":"publish","content":"1.\u00a0 WHAT\u2019s BEEN HAPPENING? It\u2019s quite some time since we launched the Heritage Conservation Assessment project and it\u2019s importance has been confirmed at successive AGMs since 2018.\u00a0 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 townscape, landscape and built heritage.\u00a0"},{"id":4133,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2023\/10\/post-covid-hca-update-august-2021\/","name":"post-covid-hca-update-august-2021","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Update - August 2021","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Oct 15, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-15 17:43:18","modifiedDate":"2023-10-18 11:42:56","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-10-18 10:42:56","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":2,"sec":34},"status":"publish","content":"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.\u00a0 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 heritage assessment (normally undertaken by"},{"id":4130,"link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/2023\/10\/hca-project-kick-off-march-2019\/","name":"hca-project-kick-off-march-2019","thumbnail":{"url":false,"alt":false},"title":"HCA Project Kick-off - March 2019","postMeta":[],"author":{"name":"Geoff Geaves","link":"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/author\/geoffgeaves\/"},"date":"Oct 15, 2023","dateGMT":"2023-10-15 17:40:43","modifiedDate":"2023-10-15 18:40:43","modifiedDateGMT":"2023-10-15 17:40:43","commentCount":"0","commentStatus":"open","categories":{"coma":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>","space":"<a href=\"https:\/\/pyrfordforum.org\/category\/hca-progress\/\" rel=\"category tag\">HCA Progress<\/a>"},"taxonomies":{"post_tag":"","post_folder":""},"readTime":{"min":1,"sec":34},"status":"publish","content":"Project Kick-off - March 2019 The 2018 AGM endorsed our plans to conduct a Heritage Conservation Assessment and agreed that we mount a significant fund raising campaign to fund the professional support required. So What's it All About? Whats the cause?\u00a0 -\u00a0 \u00a0Heritage Conservation Assessment What's that?\u00a0 -\u00a0 this will be a survey and assessment of built heritage assets across"}]