FOR a city that is running short of employment land Worcester seems to have a fair bit to offer the business community.

Before any fresh fields are dug up, perhaps investors could be steered towards the 50,000sq ft of land available to let at Knightsbridge Business Park, Warndon.

Or the 40,000sq ft on the Berkeley Business Park, available on a three, five or seven-year lease. Or the 42,570ft warehouse in Cotswold Way.

Cruising around Worcester, it's not difficult to spot a range of small-to-medium sized plots in particular that are gathering dust.

There's land to let scattered all around Worcester.

Some of it's new-build, like the 3,939ft of offices planned near the Royal Mail depot at Wainwright Road, Warndon.

Other parts are located near arterial routes, such as the 11,000sq ft of land at the top of London Road or the 6,000sq ft at Whittington Road that nobody seems to want to snap up.

Next to Joy Mining in the car-showroom-infested landscape of Bromyard Road, investors can rent a modest 4,780sq ft.

Those who want to be on the northern outskirts might want to check out the 12,000sq ft and 9,009sq ft plots at Blackpole Road.

At Shrub Hill and Sherriff Street I'm sure I would find plenty more.

These sites won't be of great interest to the big players, but if the city can't bait the minnows in the economic pond, how is it supposed to land the fat trout either?