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14 Issue 62 • March 2023

CHANGING FACE OF WORCESTER

Pavement improvements progress

Work to spruce up streets in Worcester’s city centre is continuing with

improvements in St Nicholas Street well underway.

Woburn block paving has regeneration of the city
been laid in pavement areas centre, funded by £17.9
and there is also to be a million from Worcester City
replacement low retaining Council’s successful bid to
wall with a handrail at the the Government’s Future
east end of the street. High Streets Fund. The work
to improve the pavements
Once the St Nicholas and surrounding public
Street work is complete, realm is being delivered
improvements will be made by Worcestershire County
in The Foregate, including Council.
upgrading footpaths and
highway parking bays. Areas already revamped
include Angel Row, Angel
The programme, which Place, St Swithin’s Street,
will continue into 2024, Trinity Passage, The Cross New paving at
St Nicholas St
is part of the major and Trinity Street.
New signs for Opening the way

Riverside Park to The Arches

Work will get underway this spring to install new The final link of a new
information signs at the entrances to Worcester’s route from Foregate
beautiful Riverside Park. Street Station to the Hive
and the river is set to be
Fifteen new totem-style signs will be created, if an application
put in place to welcome visitors to to demolish the former
the park, and will include maps, Jaqk’s take-away is
information on walking and approved.
cycling routes, stories from
the rich history of the area, The new walking and
and family-friendly facts on cycling path will make it
the wildlife that lives on, in easier to visit The Arches
and near the river. – Worcester development,
and to discover the
Thirty-one illustrated granite creative work spaces that
floor tiles are also due to have been formed out
go in on pathways and of refurbished railway The old Jaqk’s take-away
building is set to be
routes into the park, to arches, alongside bars demolished
increase public awareness and restaurants and other
of the riverside as a visitor established businesses. will be the final stage
destination. Some of these of this project, which is
tiles will feature arrows The former take-away funded by a £6.5 million
to suggest recommended building is next to Government Cultural
routes or spots of special the railway bridge in Development Fund
interest. Foregate Street, opposite investment.
the station, and was
Work to create the recently purchased by The planning application
foundations for the new signs Worcester City Council. will be available for public
and tiles is starting shortly. An artist’s Its demolition and the consultation shortly at
impression of
The signs and floor tiles will what the riverside creation of the new www.worcester.gov.uk/
start to be installed in April. totem signs will look like entrance into The Arches planning.

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