NEW images show how the city’s Shrub Hill area could be transformed as part of a multi-million-pound regeneration project.

Councillors will meet next week to endorse a £10 million business case which would see former ageing NHS offices Isaac Maddox House in Shrub Hill Road become a new business hub.

The redevelopment plan for the canal-side site also includes new housing and a walking and cycling route from Shrub Hill to St Martin’s Quarter.

Worcester News:

The project in Shrub Hill is one of five in the city that will use almost £20 million of government Towns Fund money with the new medical school in Hylton Road, £4.5 million active travel plan and a contribution towards the Kepax Bridge from Gheluvelt Park already approved.

READ MORE: Work finally set to start on £150million Shrub Hill regeneration

Worcester City Council’s policy and resources committee meets in the Guildhall on May 24 to discuss the Shrub Hill work as well as plans for a new Building Block training facility in Dines Green.

The new building would help provide training to residents – especially those in some of the city’s deprived areas – and offer courses in literacy and IT, customer service training as well as bricklaying, carpentry, plumbing and green trades such as solar and heat pump installation engineers.

Worcester News:

Work was finally set to start in March on a huge £150 million transformation of the nearby Shrub Hill Industrial Estate after years of delays.

The major project includes hundreds of new apartments, a hotel, gym, multi-storey car park, food and drink outlets and a cinema.

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Last October, the city was handed almost a million pounds in government funding to build more than 70 new homes in the area.

The funding – which totals £985,000 – comes from the government’s ‘Brownfield land Release Fund’ which is designed to regenerate and ‘level up’ towns and cities across the country.

The development is part of a collaboration between Worcestershire County Council and Worcester City Council for the transformation of Shrub Hill Station, industrial estate and surrounding canal side for employment and residential uses.

Shrub Hill is one of the top priority areas for regeneration in the Worcester City Centre Masterplan which sets out a vision for how the city will look by 2040.