AN EXCITING £900,000 revamp of the Diglis area of Worcester is about to get the green light - as final details emerged on what is planned.

Your Worcester News can reveal how the city council has now settled upon 11 different projects for the Diglis fields and plans to start work on the site in January.

A report has been published on the Diglis fields calling it "an increasingly important" part of the city.

The plans, due to be endorsed by the Conservative cabinet on Tuesday, include: - New seating, public art and interpretation boards at various locations

- Extra planting around the fields and an "amended mowing" schedule to increase areas of longer grass and wild flowers

- New boundary fending running along the eastern boundary, gates on all the entrances and a hard-surfaced path passing around the football pitches to "link areas of interest"

- A new children's play area to replace the one currently out of action and outdoor gym equipment worth £20,000 similar to that at Gheluvelt Park to form a "fitness trail" linking to jogging and cycle routes

- The Severn Way footpath will be enhanced with natural minerals, with improved surfacing as it passes the nature reserve

- The toilet block and community building for the popular 'Worcester and District Model Engineers' group, which uses the site from March to October, will be revamped at a cost of £50,000

- £80,000 towards sprucing up the allotments which is likely to include fencing, new water supplies, pathways and a new access road

- The tatty River Basin area linking Diglis Bridge to the Cherry Orchard nature reserve will be completely refurbished, resulting in new surfacing and tree planting, with two derelict garages also removed to open up the views towards Worcester Cathedral

The report on it says Worcester's revamped walking and cycling routes in and around Diglis are now a "significant leisure facility" used used by "hundreds of thousands" of people each year.

The council intends to start on-site early next year, working its way through 11 pieces of work starting with the play equipment.

It wants to complete the entire revamp over a two-year period through to the end of 2016.

The report also says parking remains a "major concern" and talks are ongoing about addressing that, with one option to carve out spaces at council-owned land at Trow Way.

The £912,000 budget is being funded by developers in return for planning permission on new houses in Worcester, with £650,000 already handed over and the rest due to be paid in instalments by 2017.