Connecting Kidderminster' - A Prospectus for Regeneration can be downloaded by clicking
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1. Comberton Hill - Town ‘Gateway’
Remove the Comberton Hill island and replace it with a flyover, giving direct access from Comberton Hill to the town (with the ringroad going underneath) and link the station to the Town Hall with a tram (Sanfrancisco style!)
2. Make Tesco create a new access across the canal from Park Lane and pedestrianise the area from the Tesco petrol station right up to the Town Hall, including the existing bus station (see point 4) thus creating an open green space behind the college, library and bus station, using the river frontage to its full potential.
3. Move the wood yard from Park Lane to the old sugar beet site. Use this area on Park Lane for a carpark, with a pedestrian bridge across the canal to Weavers Wharf.
4. Move the bus station to where Prospect Lane carpark is now, and provide a funicular railway and covered escalators down to Worcester Street, joining up a disjointed town and giveing businesses in the top half of town a chance to survive the seemingly indiscriminate planning regime.
5. Turn the sugar beet towers into the biggest ‘green’ composters in the country (if not the world!) using any gases created to power the site. As an incentive, compost could be offered at say 50p a bag when at least 2 binbags worth of ‘green’ waste is brought in.
Get these things right and Kidderminster would be on its way to having an infrastructure capable of encouraging new retail businesses into the town and thus attracting more visitors
1. Comberton Hill - Town ‘Gateway’
Remove the Comberton Hill island and replace it with a flyover, giving direct access from Comberton Hill to the town (with the ringroad going underneath) and link the station to the Town Hall with a tram (Sanfrancisco style!)
2. Make Tesco create a new access across the canal from Park Lane and pedestrianise the area from the Tesco petrol station right up to the Town Hall, including the existing bus station (see point 4) thus creating an open green space behind the college, library and bus station, using the river frontage to its full potential.
3. Move the wood yard from Park Lane to the old sugar beet site. Use this area on Park Lane for a carpark, with a pedestrian bridge across the canal to Weavers Wharf.
4. Move the bus station to where Prospect Lane carpark is now, and provide a funicular railway and covered escalators down to Worcester Street, joining up a disjointed town and giveing businesses in the top half of town a chance to survive the seemingly indiscriminate planning regime.
5. Turn the sugar beet towers into the biggest ‘green’ composters in the country (if not the world!) using any gases created to power the site. As an incentive, compost could be offered at say 50p a bag when at least 2 binbags worth of ‘green’ waste is brought in.
Get these things right and Kidderminster would be on its way to having an infrastructure capable of encouraging new retail businesses into the town and thus attracting more visitors
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