Planning a trip to Worcester has never been easier with an ever-expanding number of shops, cafes and businesses being added to the city's accessibility guide. AccessAble is a free service which offers detailed information about the accessibility of a whole host of places across the city including leisure centres, shops, restaurants and tourist attr...
Worcester City Council civil enforcement officers have stepped up patrols in the city centre after a spate of complaints about illegal parking around taxi ranks. Forty eight drivers have received £70 fines this month alone for the misuse of taxi ranks in areas including Foregate Street, The Cross and Friar Street. Representatives of Worcester's tax...
Ukrainian residents who left their war-torn country and were welcomed to Worcester earlier this year, are being offered help to set up their own businesses. Worcester City Council, in partnership with the Business and Intellectual Property Centre (BIPC) at The Hive, are organising a series of workshops on how to set up and run a business in t...
Over 400 people are expected to join Worcester's Remembrance Sunday parade which will take place on Sunday 13 November. The parade will march to the Cathedral for the annual Service of Remembrance. This year, around 50 veterans and 70 serving officers with the Queen's Royal Hussars, will be joining the parade through the city streets. The Queen's R...
Around 30,000 car parking payments which have yet to be debited from customers' bank accounts are due to be processed this week Duplicate payments for parking sessions at Worcester's car parks have now all been dealt with, with payments expected to arrive in customers' bank accounts by the end of this week. However, around £57,000 in genuine car pa...
Refunds of duplicate car parking payments are now underway, with 183,000 payments expected to appear in customers' accounts by next week. Flowbird has confirmed to the Council that on Sunday October 16, all 56,000 duplicate payments made by Mastercard were processed, with the cash expected to arrive in bank accounts during the week commencing Monda...
Residents and visitors will be able to take a step back in time and see local history as they have never seen it before at a Virtual Time Travel Trail event later this month. The free event will see historic photos of Worcester and memories from local people projected on to three buildings in the city and there will be further internal light projec...
Residents in the Arboretum area are going green with a pay-as-you-go car share scheme. The Car Club vehicle, a low emission Hyundai Ioniq Hybrid, has been provided by Enterprise Car Club, and is parked at Worcester Baptist Church on Sansone Walk in the city centre. Residents wishing to use the car pay a small monthly fee and can then pre-book the c...
Worcester City Council is planning to take legal action over the delay in repayments to customers who have been wrongly charged multiple times for parking in its car parks and has instructed its lawyers to proceed in this matter. Despite Council officers meeting with its operator Flowbird on a twice-daily basis for over two weeks now, the matter is...
Worcester City Council has been informed that car park users will start to see refunds appearing in their bank accounts next week. The Council continues to hold twice daily meetings with Flowbird in a bid to get the matter sorted out as swiftly as possible. A spokesperson for Worcester City Council, said: "We are doing our utmost to resolve t...
Investigations are continuing into a technical issue with Worcester City Council's car park payment machines, with full refunds promised to those affected by duplicate transactions. Whilst the source of the issue has now been identified, a solution to the problem has yet to be found, so the card payment option continues to be disabled on all machin...
Worcester City Council wants to hear the views of residents and businesses on what its priorities should be– and how the council should be spending public money in the year ahead. The Council's annual survey is open now and runs until 11 November. /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-...
Worcester City Council continues to investigate a technical issue with card payments from its pay and display machines. Card payments are currently disabled, leaving the options of using the RingGo app or cash payments. We have now established that many customers have suffered from duplicate transactions, resulting in multiple payments wrongly bein...
Motorists are urged not to pay for parking by credit or debit card as Worcester City Council continues to investigate a technical issue with its card payment machines. It was initially thought that the issue had just caused the late processing of card payments, but it has since become clear that some customers have suffered from duplicate tra...
Motorists using Worcester City Council car parks are being advised to pay with cash or by using the RingGo app, while a technical error with its card payment facility is resolved. A computer software issue has resulted in delays to processing card payments, meaning a longer delay between customers' paying for their parking and the money leaving the...
A key planning document that will shape the way South Worcestershire develops over the next 20 years is set to be considered by councillors. The review of the existing South Worcestershire Development Plan (SWDP) sets out Worcester City, Malvern Hills District and Wychavon District Councils' vision for the area up to 2041. It includes a Government ...
Worcester residents are invited to have their say on a blueprint that will shape the city's arts and cultural provision for the next five years. Worcester City Council is seeking feedback on its draft Arts and Culture Strategy to ensure it represents the wide variety of cultural activities in the city, and people are being encouraged to give their ...
More than 15,000 people turned out to enjoy all the fun and festivities at this year's hugely successful Worcester Show. Despite the blazing temperatures, visitors young and old kept cool with ice creams, cold drinks and sun hats as they enjoyed everything the show had to offer - from live entertainment to a wealth of stalls and sideshows. The day'...
An extravaganza of Asian music, dance, crafts and food is set to bring a carnival atmosphere to this year's Worcester Show, with a Mela Marquee offering a warm welcome to all the family. Mela means festival of togetherness and Worcester Mela Partnership are promising a riot of colour, fun and celebration when they arrive at the Show for the first t...
Temporary changes to taxi ranks in Worcester city centre will begin from Monday (1 August) as work starts on the latest phase of street improvements. The eight-week programme of work is the third phase of a scheme to revitalise the city centre and will include new surfacing, lighting and seating. During the next two months, The Cross taxi rank will...