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26 Issue 63 • July 2023

CHANGING FACE OF WORCESTER

Vison of future for Shrub Hill Quarter

A bright new future
for one of Worcester’s

most under-valued
areas is being

developed.

A free exhibition at the Guildhall,
running until 28 July, is giving
people the chance to find out more
about proposals for revamping the
14-hectare Shrub Hill Quarter over
the next 20 years. photography: ar urbanism

Visitors are encouraged to give their An artist’s impression of what the
views on the proposals to create regenerated Shrub Hill Quarter could look like
homes, jobs and new attractions in
the area, either by leaving comments create new long-term opportunities both within the city and beyond.”
at the exhibition or online at www. for the area.
worcester.gov.uk/voiceit. Studies already undertaken suggest
UNTAPPED POTENTIAL that, over the next 20 years, the Shrub
The exhibition is being held ahead of David Blake, Managing Director at Hill Quarter could provide up to 5,000
the preparation of a formal planning Worcester City Council, said: “The jobs, more than 500 homes and two
document that will govern the future Shrub Hill Quarter is currently an hectares of new public space, as
of Shrub Hill Quarter, known as a under-valued part of the city with well as becoming an attractive new
supplementary planning document significant untapped potential. gateway to the city centre.
(SPD). A first draft of this will be
published later in the year and will be “Our ambitions are that, within 20 The Shrub Hill Quarter is defined
put out to public consultation. years, Shrub Hill will become known as the area bordered by the railway
as a high quality and distinctive station, Tallow Hill Road, George
Worcester City Council is working neighbourhood, play a significant Street, Pheasant Street, Lowesmoor
together with Worcestershire County role in growing our city’s diverse and Place and Tolladine Road. It does not
Council and Worcestershire LEP productive economy, and that the include the separate, neighbouring
(Local Enterprise Partnership) to area will transform its connections Sherriff’s Gate development.

Revamped park to commemorate war victims

The revamped Meco Memorial Nature Park (formerly Sanctuary Park)
in St John’s is to be officially re-opened this month.

Improvements to the park, completed with a £30,000 The new Meco bombing
investment by Worcester City Council, include the creation of a memorial sculpture
new memorial area to remember the victims of the bombing of
the Meco works during the Second World War.

This will include a sculpture and seating, plus an information
panel about the bombing.

It was on 3 October 1940 that a lone German aircraft dropped
its bombs at low level on the Meco works – which manufactured
mining rescue apparatus, compressed air drills and other
equipment – and then afterwards machine-gunned the area.

Seven people were killed and 50 injured in the only fatal
bombing raid to take place in Worcester during the Second
World War.

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