Worcester City Plan revision 2024
The Worcester City Plan is Worcester City Council’s statement of its vision for the City of Worcester. The plan was first published in 2016 and refreshed following wide consultation in 2022. The second version set out the five themes that all of the contributors felt mattered most to our city:
Stronger and Connected Communities
We want people in Worcester to feel they are part of a city where they have positive relationships with each other, where they feel safe and where they are able to succeed to the best of their abilities.
A Prosperous City
We want sustainable growth from which all people and communities can benefit.
A Healthy and Active City
We want our city’s residents to have a good start in life, enjoying long, healthy and fulfilling lives, through to a dignified end.
A Heritage City with a 21st Century Culture
We want to retain the ‘essence of Worcester’, whilst accommodating the needs of sustainable growth and development in a way that is sympathetic with a range of views, needs and potential.
Enhancing and Sustaining our Beautiful City for Future Generations
We want people to recognise the beauty of our city and to work with us to protect, sustain and improve its environment for the benefit of current and future generations.
Since the City Plan was published there have been a wide range of changes, including national legislation, that have had an impact on the city’s development. These have created new priorities and opportunities. In response the Council has:
- Developed a new Housing Enabling Strategy to help tackle the challenges of homelessness, need for more affordable housing, rising property costs and changing relationships between tenant and landlords
- Collaborated on a wide range of place shaping initiatives such as the Towns Improvement Plan, Future High Streets Fund, the Levelling up Fund, and others which have collectively brought in around £50m in capital investment
- Focussed increasingly on Health and Wellbeing issues through the Covid pandemic, the Cost of Living Crisis, the increased use of Worcester Foodbank, a greater emphasis on equality, diversity and inclusion and on mental health issues
- Developed new approaches to Play and Arts and Culture to help keep the city a welcoming place for the young, for visitors and for all who live and work here.
- Declared a Climate Change Emergency and developed an Environmental Strategy, an Air Quality Action Plan and a City Centre Transport Strategy to address the increasingly challenging issues of climate change, reducing bio-diversity, increased flooding and traffic congestion.
We now have a new Government and a new Administration for the Council which will strive to take each of these initiatives forward. Now is the time to refresh the City Plan and want to get your views on how the city needs to respond to these changes and other challenges ahead. We want your ideas on how we can all work collaboratively to continue to make our city the place we want it to be.
We would like your responses to the key questions below by Sunday 13 October.
The results from this consultation will be used to inform the development of the refreshed City Plan which will be reported to Full Council in February 2025.
Reporting of the survey results will be statistical and will never contain your name or anything that could identify you. Your details will not be linked to your opinions in any way.
For full privacy information please see our associated Privacy Notice.
If you would like this information in large print, or another language or format, or require any assistance with responding, please contact strategy@worcester.gov.uk or call 01905 722233.