WORCESTERSHIRE’S New Road ground redevelopment work has been further delayed with the project now not set to be completed until early September.

The original completion date for the scheme was June 10 but a harsh winter and four floods added a month to the expected finish.

Over the course of the build, the deadline slipped further to the end of July, but now supply-chain problems with key items required to finish the project have created a further month’s delay.

Now the plan is for the new facilities, which will include money-spinning executive and conferencing areas and club offices, to be ready for the public to look around during the first week of September.

They hope the first game at the new-look New Road will be the LV= County Championship Division Two visit of Hampshire that starts on September 11.

Worcestershire chief executive David Leatherdale explained: “After the floods, the scheduled completion date was moved back to the end of July.

“This has now been put back again and we will be having a meeting today to iron out the finer details, but it is looking like being the first week in September.

“The contractors have had issues with procuring the glass for the front entrance and for the balustrade to go along the balconies.

“It is frustrating because everyone wants to see it completed.

“Most places just need carpeting or furniture and they will be ready.

“The main man from contractors Gilbert Ash has come over from Ireland to go through everything with a fine toothcomb.

“The new development should be open before the Hampshire match which will give us two four-day games at the end of the season to showcase our new facilities.

“There will also be people on hand on non-match days to conduct tours of the new buildings.”

Work is ongoing on the Premier Inn hotel alongside the development which will be finished after the club facilities.

Meanwhile, Worcestershire resume their Yorkshire Bank 40 campaign on Sunday with a visit from Kent (1.45pm).

It is win or bust time for the County in terms of their faint hopes of qualifying for the competition’s knockout stages.

Even if Steve Rhodes’ men do win their remaining group games, it would still take a host of results elsewhere going in the County’s favour for them to make the semi-finals.

After this weekend’s visit of third-placed Kent, Worcestershire travel to table-topping Nottinghamshire on Tuesday.