Page 14 - City Life Magazine - Autumn 2022

14 Issue 60 • September 2022

CHANGING FACE OF WORCESTER
Fingers crossed

for a bright future

So many exciting new projects are about to get underway in
Worcester, with renovation and regeneration plans afoot that will
boost the city’s economy, benefiting both residents and tourists alike.

Funding is already in place for many of the improvements, with the
City Council working hard to secure more cash for additional schemes.

Worcester City Council facilities for city residents
will find out later in the and to attract more key
autumn whether its bid regional sporting events.
for Levelling-Up funding The work would include
from the Government the refurbishment of all the
for improvements to outdoor athletics facilities,
three major city sites has as well as improvements to
been successful. the clubhouse. A new four-
court sports hall would
The hoped-for investment be built at the rear of the
would kick-start a existing building, and a
new programme of new single-storey group
regeneration, boost jobs exercise studio would also
and tourism, and provide be created.
new opportunities for the Nunnery Wood
Sports Complex
local community. TRANSFORMATION
The new, improved in a poor state of repair, racecourse grandstand,
The project would see Nunnery Wood would be but if the Levelling-Up focussed on turning the
huge improvements at a facility that could host bid is successful the building into a year-round
the Engine Works in local, regional and national 7,000 square-metre site facility offering conference
Shrub Hill, Nunnery Wood competitions, as well as will be the target of a and meeting rooms, and a
Sports Complex and the offering vastly improved major revamp, potentially large festival and concert
grandstand at Worcester facilities to the local creating new offices and space. The revamped
Racecourse. community. creative workshop space. grandstand would attract
greater visitor numbers on
Nunnery Wood would The disused Engine Works The property belongs race days and be available
be upgraded to improve in Shrub Hill is currently to Worcestershire to hire for other events,
County Council, and including conferences,
Engine Works
its redevelopment private functions and
would tie in with a community activities.
much wider programme Sports and community
of regeneration and changing facilities
investment for the Shrub would be upgraded and
Hill area. Cash from the modernised.
Government’s Towns
Fund is already in place The proposal is that
for the redevelopment of the grandstand would
the nearby Isaac Maddox continue to be operated
House in Shrub Hill Road. by the Arena Racing
Company who are
UPGRADED & providing match-funding
MODERNISED for the Levelling-Up bid,
The bid also improves with the City Council
a proposed package of taking a share in profits
improvements to the from its operation.

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