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8 hours ago
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Plan backed to encourage more walking and cycling
Worcester City Council has approved a plan to encourage more people to walk and cycle rather than use their cars. The place and economic development committee gave the Active Travel Action Plan the green light on Monday, which will be implemented over the coming three years. The local authority's previous plan introduced the Beryl bike scheme, which saw about 52,000 cycle journeys in the city in the past year. "This plan is about making walking, wheeling, and cycling viable and attractive travel choices in Worcester, particularly for shorter journeys," said councillor Robyn Norfolk, chair of the committee. "The previous Active Travel Plan has shown how a project like the Beryl bikes can encourage active travel across our city." She said it would form part of a wider plan for Worcester, with the aim of making it a "healthy and active city". Proposals include a mobility hub being set up in the Arches walkway at Foregate Street. It would be home to a range of sustainable transport options, the council said. The new walkway links the train station, the Hive and the Riverside, and would have secure parking, as well as a Beryl bike bay. The aim is to provide links between different modes of travel in the city centre. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. More than 50,000 miles covered in bike hire scheme Cycling and walking schemes get £7m Worcester City Council
BBC News
8 hours ago
- BBC News
Worcester City Council approves new active travel plan
Worcester City Council has approved a plan to encourage more people to walk and cycle rather than use their place and economic development committee gave the Active Travel Action Plan the green light on Monday, which will be implemented over the coming three local authority's previous plan introduced the Beryl bike scheme, which saw about 52,000 cycle journeys in the city in the past year."This plan is about making walking, wheeling, and cycling viable and attractive travel choices in Worcester, particularly for shorter journeys," said councillor Robyn Norfolk, chair of the committee. "The previous Active Travel Plan has shown how a project like the Beryl bikes can encourage active travel across our city."She said it would form part of a wider plan for Worcester, with the aim of making it a "healthy and active city".Proposals include a mobility hub being set up in the Arches walkway at Foregate Street. It would be home to a range of sustainable transport options, the council new walkway links the train station, the Hive and the Riverside, and would have secure parking, as well as a Beryl bike aim is to provide links between different modes of travel in the city centre. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
3 days ago
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Worcester councillors approve plans for £150k pump track
Plans to build a new £150,000 pump cycling track in Worcester have been approved by City Council said the track, at Perdiswell Park, would be a "destination" facility for the city and would feature two separate tracks, one for experienced riders and another for children under popularity of the first track, in Battenhall Park, had prompted the authority to draw up the plans for a second, larger of Worcester City Council's place and economic development committee approved plans for the scheme on Monday. Pump tracks, which feature small bumps and jumps, are made up of hills and banked turns and are designed to be ridden by cyclists who generate momentum by using up and down movements, instead of pedaling or were told that £20,000 of community funding from housing developers would be used to help fund the Perdiswell Riaz, the authority's deputy leader, said the council was "doing a lot" to address a historical lack of investment in play facilities across Elena Round added lessons also needed to be learnt from the first pump track, which opened in Battenhall in November, and that the Perdiswell track should have been built said due to the smaller facility being "massively oversubscribed," the community in the St Peter's area of the city had been exposed to "no end of issues" including anti-social behaviour, litter and drugs."A larger pump track in a central location, co-located with other leisure facilities and car parking would have had relatively minor issues compared to what we're facing in St Peter's," she explained. This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
18-06-2025
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City centre church added to at Worcester's at risk list
A city centre church is a new entry on a list of buildings and monuments and battlefields at risk through neglect or decay. All Saints Church in Deansway, Worcester, was added because its stonework and windows are in poor repair and there are issues with its electrics, the register said. Worcester City Council has unveiled its 2025 Heritage at Risk Register, which will go before its planning committee on Thursday. Parts of the medieval city walls are included, while the condition of number of Grade II listed buildings was also highlighted. A Grade II listed pedestal tomb at Claines Church is on the register because the top section of its urn finial is missing, while the urn itself is unstable, and the Scala Theatre and Corn Exchange in Angel Street are the subject of a city council scheme to create a new arts venue. Parts of the city walls on the list are scheduled monuments and Grade II listed. Some parts of the medieval walls were repaired after a grant from Historic England, but others remain at risk after plant growth. Meanwhile, collapsed boundary walls to the west and south of College Green were in "very bad" condition, according to the list, and a rebuild programme was yet to get under way. Some repairs had been carried out at St Helen's Church in Fish Street, but stonework repairs in the tower were still needed. It also noted work had resumed at a vacant building in Trotshill Lane East, Warndon. The premises has been hit by anti-social behaviour and was damaged by fire in 2020. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service which covers councils and other public service organisations.
BBC News
02-06-2025
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- BBC News
Revamp of Worcester leisure centres part of five-year plan
A deal has been struck over the management of a city's leisure services for the next five City Council has extended its partnership with not-for-profit company Freedom Leisure to continue its existing contract up to December the agreement, originally signed in 2016, the firm has run Perdiswell Leisure Centre, St Johns Sports Centre and Nunnery Wood Sports Complex, along with the city's Healthy Communities council said the renewed contract included a commitment by Freedom Leisure to invest in facilities and boost energy efficiency. Perdiswell Leisure Centre will get refurbished fitness facilities, improved energy efficiency and upgraded CCTV equipment under the St Johns Sports Centre will see a revamp of its fitness suite and the 3G football pitch will be replaced and upgraded. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
