Conservation Areas - Enhancement Schemes

Planning Services operate a rolling programme of Conservation Area Enhancement Schemes, funded by periodical allowances from the Council's capital receipts/budget underspend monies.

The schemes incorporate ideas and proposals from the Conservation Area Advisory Committees, Council Officers, Ward Councillors and local residents. They include the design and construction of improvement schemes and grant aid towards local improvement projects. Many improvements are identified by the local community through the Council's rolling programme of preparing Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Proposal documents

A number of capital and revenue schemes have been implemented within the Borough's 24 Conservation Areas including pond restoration, protection of common land and the provision of amenity parking, heritage boards, period lamp restoration and floodlighting historical monuments.

Recently completed schemes include:

• A new car park sympathetic to its rural setting at Downside Common in Cobham
  
• Restoration work to the Grade II Listed Victorian fountain and pump at Esher High Street
  
• New railings next to the River Mole on the Police Green Open Space at East Molesey
  
• Resurfacing and edging of the path around the War Memorial in Hersham
  
• Removal of overgrown vegetation around Listed tombs in St James churchyard in Weybridge and St Georges churchyard in Esher
  
• Replanting of a commemorative WWII Cherry tree avenue along Stoke Road in Cobham
  
• Restoration of a heritage light on the fountain in Thames Ditton
  
• Landscape improvements to restore historic views of St Nicholas Church and to open up views of the River Thames across the slipway in Thames Ditton