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Yahoo
01-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Town centre regeneration project delayed
A scheme to develop part of a town centre in Worcestershire has been delayed. The project connecting Worcester Street to Bromsgrove Street in Kidderminster, creating a new green community area, is now expected to be finished by the end of the year. The delay has been caused by the need for additional drainage, said Wyre Forest District Council. The finished space will improve access to the Bromsgrove Street car park, and is part of the council's vision for the town, Kidderminster 2040, it said. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. Park revamp set to begin after badger delays Plans revealed for former Woolworths building Town council aims to reopen paddling pool in 2026 Wyre Forest District Council
BBC News
01-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Kidderminster town centre regeneration project delayed
A scheme to develop part of a town centre in Worcestershire has been delayed. The project connecting Worcester Street to Bromsgrove Street in Kidderminster, creating a new green community area, is now expected to be finished by the end of the delay has been caused by the need for additional drainage, said Wyre Forest District Council. The finished space will improve access to the Bromsgrove Street car park, and is part of the council's vision for the town, Kidderminster 2040, it said. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
30-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Kidderminster park revamp set to begin after badger delays
A £3m revamp of a park is to start after it was hit by a series of delays including the discovery of several badger Forest District Council said work on Kidderminster's Brinton Park in Worcestershire would start this budget includes £2.4m in lottery cash but the authority's cabinet will be asked to release an extra £460,000 on 10 June to make sure the scheme remains on will start with the construction of a new artificial badger sett to protect local wildlife. The council said a key part of the improvements included replacing the aging Sons of Rest pavilion at the park, which was found to be in a worse condition than engineers told the council it needs to be demolished and rebuilt, a spokesperson for the authority added, with an application to be considered at the next available planning committee new pavilion would reflect the historic character of the original and include a new café and terrace overlooking an ornamental pond, they Tracey Onslow said the park was one of the area's most popular green said the improvements would "not only protect and improve the park's natural beauty and heritage, it will also create welcoming new spaces for everyone to enjoy".Work will start with the construction of the new sett and demolition of the pavilion would follow shortly afterwards, if the application was approved, the spokesperson said. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
20-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Worcestershire MP backs proposal to cut county in two
A Worcestershire MP has backed a proposal to split the county in two to form northern and southern council run Labour MP, Chris Bloore, said a new North Worcestershire authority – made up of Redditch, Bromsgrove and Wyre Forest district councils - would best fit the government's devolution Worcestershire's political leaders appear deadlocked over which option is a separate proposal, Worcestershire County Council has argued replacing the county's seven existing authorities with a single one could save more than £20m a year. "For towns like Redditch… I don't think we should be going straight to a Worcestershire-wide solution," said Bloore."We're at a time where, if we're honest, Worcestershire County Council is going through a very difficult time. Its delivery of services in certain areas, like children's services, hasn't been the best."And I think we've already seen in Redditch and Bromsgrove that those councils have worked well in shared partnership and delivery of services. So, I'm pretty confident that we could do it again," he current population figures, a North Worcestershire authority would be home to just under 288,000 criteria set in Labour's English Devolution White Paper stipulate that new unitary councils must serve at least 500,000 people, Bloore said he believed the government would show flexibility. At the moment, Worcestershire's political leaders appear deadlocked over which option is Worcestershire County Council and Wyre Forest District Council have argued a single unitary authority is the only option to meet the government's criteria, both Worcester City Council and Malvern Hills District Council have said they would prefer the county be split in other districts, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Wychavon, said both options needed further exploration."One Worcestershire council would be more effective and efficient," said Simon Geraghty, the Conservative leader of the county council, at a scrutiny meeting on Tuesday. Life on a new border A new border would follow existing district council boundaries, cutting right through the village of Astwood Bank, where residents currently live under different district councils – either Redditch or Wychavon – with different rates of council tax and different bin in future, the creation of two new unitary councils could see neighbours receiving different provision for services, such as roads, public transport, social care and libraries."We want the best bang for our buck," said Roy Stanley, who currently lives on the Wychavon side of the said he favoured a single council."At the end of the day we just want decent services for the amount of money that we pay out. I think that's the main thing," he said. "Actually making an area bigger in terms of local government doesn't always necessarily make it better," said resident Karen Arnold, who said she preferred the idea of splitting the county in two."There's a huge variety in population… and what populations need in this area."And I think if you've got a very large area to cover, it gets very difficult to tailor services to what the actual population needs," she Astwood Bank just a few minutes' drive from the neighbouring county of Warwickshire, resident Katie Taylor-Jones said county boundaries had made local public transport less joined up."We're ten minutes' drive away… we can't get buses very easily between those places. It doesn't encourage us to be able to use public transport," she said."If they kind of stop on a particular road and say, well, that's as far as we're going, because here's the boundary, that makes it complex, I think."While councillors in Worcestershire have until November to submit a business case for proposals to the government, any negotiations are likely to be interrupted by county council elections on 1 May. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X, and Instagram.
