A MASSIVE public consultation is about to start on the multi-million regeneration proposals in store for various city centre sites.

The future of the Lowesmoor trading estate, Worcester riverside, the Worcester University library site, the general shopping area and Worcester porcelain will all come under discussion.

City council bosses have set up a six-week consultation period starting next week which will allow people to voice an opinion on the future of it.

It will staff a two-day exhibition inside the Cathedral Plaza next week to brief people on what planning applications are in and what the council thinks will happen to the city.

Following the exhibition, which will be in the former Austin Reed building fronting Cathedral Square, copies of the report will be available on the website and in all local libraries.

Everyone at the exhibition, which will be on Thursday, July 13, and Friday, July 14, will be asked to fill out a questionnaire on it.

Elements like the future of the Riverside will be included despite a bid to the National Lottery for £25m of funding being rejected in April. Planning officer Jim Pithouse said: "The idea behind this is to offer guidance to people on the future of the city centre.

"It is about how the council envisages major developments taking shape.

"There are major plans that have already been submitted to the council on some of the sites under discussion, and we need to make sure it still feels like Worcester city centre in the future.

"The building in the Cathedral Plaza will be open for the initial two days from 10am-5.30pm, and after that the document will be available from the libraries and on our website."

As reported in the Worcester News, a major £75m application to redevelop the Lowesmoor trading estate has already been submitted to the council, as well as plans for a new university library.

The proposals for both of these sites will come up in the consultation.