Worcester City Plan 2025 - 2030

Welcome to Worcester City Council’s strategic plan for the next five years: An ambitious, vibrant and welcoming historic city with opportunities for everyone.

This plan focusses not just on the Council’s activities but on how we hope residents and stakeholders can continue to work together for a successful, vibrant and sustainable Worcester.

As Leaders of each of the Council’s political parties we have come together to create a vision for a city that is sustainable, prosperous, healthy, creative and diverse and where opportunities are available to everyone.

The City Plan focuses on five overlapping and interconnected themes, which will together shape the Worcester we want to see by 2030.

• Councillor Lynn Denham, Labour, Leader of the Council
• Councillor Louis Stephen, Green
• Councillor Jessie Jagger, Liberal Democrat

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A city where everyone can prosper

We want prosperity for everyone, founded on secure livelihoods and an inclusive and diverse economy. This is about much more than economic measures – it includes health and wellbeing, a sense of belonging, opportunities for education, and political inclusion.

A resilient and sustainable city

We want Worcester to contribute to the global response to climate change and its impact on nature and biodiversity, and have the resilience to cope with the changing climate and extreme weather. The City Council’s ambition is for Worcester to be carbon-neutral by 2030.

Strong and engaged communities

Worcester will be a place where people have a sense of shared ownership and pride, alongside kindness and respect for all. The ambition is for Worcester’s residents to feel that they belong to multiple and overlapping communities with varied interests and ambitions; communities that support each other and celebrate each other’s differences and varied heritage.

An attractive heritage city with a vibrant modern culture

Worcester is a historic city with a remarkable built and natural environment that we want to sustain and pass on to future generations. We want to celebrate the city’s natural heritage, whilst supporting Worcester as a modern vibrant city. It will be a university and cathedral city that is renowned for a broad range of modern cultural experiences and is proud of its remarkable history and the legacy that is visible in its architecture and open spaces.

A healthy and active city 

We want our citizens to citizens can enjoy long, healthy and fulfilling lives, and have a choice as to how they achieve this. The ambition is for Worcester to be a place that promotes health and wellbeing by providing attractive open spaces, quality provision for play, leisure centres, sporting facilities, and attractive options for active travel – all combining to make it possible for physical activity to be an integral part of daily life in the city for people of all ages.

Read the Worcester City Plan