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In recent years Worcester has been going through a renaissance and the City Council is taking a lead in facilitating these changes. The city centre’s residential population is growing through the development of new apartment schemes alongside the canal and on other central brownfield sites, particularly in the city centre. The University of Worcester is set to expand over the next few years to include a second campus on the old Royal Infirmary site and the University, Worcestershire County Council, and the City Council are working to provide a new joint University and Public Library and Customer Service Centre on the site of our, soon to be vacated, Butts depot. New public spaces have been and will be created by the riverside following the refurbishment of the High Street. Plans to regenerate the riverside parks over the next three years have also been agreed. Worcester is the County town, with a thriving retail and commercial sector, and is a centre for national and international tourism. It is a special City with a proud heritage spanning more than 1,500 years. A network of green and open spaces, the River Severn runs through the city centre and provides a pastoral backdrop to the urban landscape. Worcester is within close reach of Herefordshire, the Vale of Evesham, the Malvern Hills and the Cotswolds. Two M5 motorway junctions make for easy access to the West Midlands , the north and the South West. Our two railway stations, Shrub Hill and Foregate Street , give frequent, direct rail services to London , Birmingham , and Cardiff . Birmingham International airport - the “Euro hub” - is nearby and offers direct flights to the USA and European cities.
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