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LEADER’S MESSAGE

Dear Residents, sites to get rid of bulky waste. For
While not quite back to normal yet, details of when the service is in your
life is returning to something more area please look at www.worcester.
recognisable than the experience we gov.uk.
have all lived through over the last
eighteen months. The success of the In total, we are spending over
vaccine rollout has finally enabled £600,000 extra this year on cleaning
us to look forward with some and helping Worcester to recover
confidence again and, at the City from the effects of COVID. This is only
Council, we are gearing up our work possible thanks to the great support
to help the city recover. we received from the Government
during the pandemic - which means
As a new Conservative administration that we are well-placed to open up
we have set out a number of specific and welcome residents and tourists
activities we want to see over the back to our beautiful city.
Marc Bayliss coming months to help people and
businesses bounce back. Over the next few weeks we will
be announcing further initiatives,
Firstly, we have said that we want to including discounted car parking to
see a demonstrable improvement encourage even more people to visit
in the standard of cleansing right and spend time in Worcester. We will
across the city. This means more also be beginning to see the start of
bins being located in the right places regeneration projects made possible
and enough collections to stop them thanks to almost £40 million we have
from overflowing. We also want to been allocated by the Government.
see more street cleaning, especially Our plans to improve the area around
in areas such as the High Street and Angel Street, Foregate Street and St
riverside, where there are lots of Nicholas Street are progressing well
people and activity. and will certainly improve the look of
the city for anyone arriving at Foregate
We have also said that we want more Street station. The money will also
action to tackle the growing problems help us create a brand new theatre at
associated with gulls. We have the site of the former Scala cinema.
doubled the budget for this work and
now have a hawk being flown most I believe confidence in our city and
days of the week to disperse the gulls its future is rising and Worcester has
and stop them plaguing residents and much to look forward to over the
tourists alike. coming months and years.

We have also invested extra money Kind Regards,
in ensuring the return of the Saturday Marc
Skip service at various locations across
the city. These skips allow residents Councillor Marc Bayliss
who can’t get to household waste Leader – Worcester City Council

Keeping Worcester’s streets Artist’s impression of how the new route
and parks clean and tidy from Foregate St to The Arches could look

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