14/05/2025
Community Call - Please share and follow this page!
You may be aware that Maypole Hill has been put up for sale, we are a small group of locals who want to raise funds to buy the Maypole, then establish a charity and hold it in trust for the people of Bewdley, keeping this fantastic piece of nature in the heart of our community forever, with no chance of anyone building on it.
We have been in touch with the landowner and expected a bit more time before it went to market, however, here we are.
There are few lots for sale but the lot containing the Maypole Piece (Lot 1 in the link below) is £300,000; stamp duty land tax will be an additional £4,500 and there will be legal fees.
This sounds a lot but it is achievable, if 1000 people gave £350, or 3,500 people gave £100 we could do this.
In fact any donations would get us close to the target.
We will be looking to crowdfund this, but we need to meet as a committee to plan this, doing it this way means that if we are unsuccessful funds are returned to any donors and donations are protected.
We are also working out some basic logistics, but trust us we will be working flat out to ensure we have the best chance to secure this important piece of land.
All updates will be shared through this page so please share it as much as you can - the more people supporting this, the better chance we have.
We understand that there is a lot of local passion for the Maypole, that many believe it should have been left to the people of Bewdley, however we have looked into this and the easiest and most effective way of securing the land is to buy it and make it into a Charitable Trust.
We ask, whilst we get things sorted, that all queries, offers of help and other comments are sent to our email:
friendsofthemaypole@gmail.com
We simply don’t have the number of people at this stage to respond on Facebook to what we imagine is going to be a very hot topic, but we can dedicate time to answering emails.
Thank you for reading and let’s get the Maypole to where it should be, the heart of the community.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/find.html?locationIdentifier=REGION%5E147&radius=0.25&displayPropertyType=land_development&rent.x=Sale&search=For+Sale
