Staff - Malvern Hills Conservators
Staff - Malvern Hills Conservators Staff - Malvern Hills Conservators
Staff featured on Countryfile Julia Bradbury and team with Warden, Rich Vale The timing of BBC1’s Countryfile featuring the Malvern Hills in the spring of a recession year, gave a valuable insight into the work of the Wardens and Field staff carrying out their work often unseen by the public. The programme was watched by 6 million viewers and boosted tourism in the area. Managing anti-social behaviour With 19,000 residents as your neighbours, together with receiving over a million visitors in a year, it is always good to record that there are few incidents that cause problems. From time to time we do have the occasional incident where we have to act in the public interest. At Guarlford tyres were being dumped on common land under our jurisdiction, a quote for removing the tyres was in the region of £1 per tyre. Disposing of some 2,000 plus would have cost the organisation dear. The Environment Agency stepped in to help and through contacts traced those that had placed the tyres on the land and through negotiation, got them moved. 10
Other incidents that have been concerning the staff have been the number of vehicles parked on the common. On the one hand it is part of life today that people have more than one car and therefore cannot always accommodate them inside their property. However parked cars not only cause damage to the common by compacting the soil but also cause obstructions in the summer when mowing operations are carried out. Wildflowers on Link Common and Townsend Way Grass cutting not only keeps the Field Staff busy in the summer but many calls are made to the office either telling us to leave the grass or to cut it. Our policy is worked out by the Land Management Committee and that is relayed to the parish councils for comment. We have three major cutting regimes: shorter grass in urban areas, hay crops in semi-rural areas and finally the grazed areas. The public generally are more aware of their environment. In responding to requests to leave areas uncut, or given a late cut to allow wild flower seeds to set, we have left two large areas on Link Common and along Townsend Way. Response from the public has been generally favourable. Colwall Bridge Wildflowers on Link Common One of the defining projects for Colwall was the construction of a new railway bridge. The closure of the old bridge and construction of a new one right next to the Village Green under the management of the Malvern Hills Conservators involved staff in negotiations with Network Rail. The steer from Conservators in Colwall indicated they did not want the project to be delayed because of meeting our requirements. We therefore agreed to the contractor having access to the areas adjacent to the bridge for working compounds and agreeing to the reshaping of the banks. However we made sure that specimen trees on the football pitch side of the green were protected and that the area was reinstated afterwards. Towards the end of the construction we tried to reduce the impact of signs on adjacent greens and prevented unlawful structures associated with the bridge from being placed on the Green. 11
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Other incidents that have been concerning the staff have been the number of<br />
vehicles parked on the common. On the one hand it is part of life today that people<br />
have more than one car and therefore cannot always accommodate them inside their<br />
property. However parked cars not only cause damage to the common by<br />
compacting the soil but also cause obstructions in the summer when mowing<br />
operations are carried out.<br />
Wildflowers on Link Common and Townsend Way<br />
Grass cutting not only keeps the Field <strong>Staff</strong> busy in the summer but many calls are<br />
made to the office either telling us to leave the grass or to cut it. Our policy is worked<br />
out by the Land Management Committee and that is relayed to the parish councils for<br />
comment. We have three major cutting regimes: shorter grass in urban areas, hay<br />
crops in semi-rural areas and finally the grazed areas.<br />
The public generally are more aware of their environment. In responding to requests<br />
to leave areas uncut, or given a late cut to allow wild flower seeds to set, we have left<br />
two large areas on Link Common and along Townsend Way. Response from the<br />
public has been generally favourable.<br />
Colwall Bridge<br />
Wildflowers on Link Common<br />
One of the defining projects for Colwall was the construction of a new railway bridge.<br />
The closure of the old bridge and construction of a new one right next to the Village<br />
Green under the management of the <strong>Malvern</strong> <strong>Hills</strong> <strong>Conservators</strong> involved staff in<br />
negotiations with Network Rail. The steer from <strong>Conservators</strong> in Colwall indicated they<br />
did not want the project to be delayed because of meeting our requirements. We<br />
therefore agreed to the contractor having access to the areas adjacent to the bridge<br />
for working compounds and agreeing to the reshaping of the banks. However we<br />
made sure that specimen trees on the football pitch side of the green were protected<br />
and that the area was reinstated afterwards. Towards the end of the construction we<br />
tried to reduce the impact of signs on adjacent greens and prevented unlawful<br />
structures associated with the bridge from being placed on the Green.<br />
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