A new pedestrian bridge in north Worcester, a walking and cycling ‘highway’ along the Severn from Carrington Bridge to Diglis, wildflower meadows and new city centre drinking fountains are all plans put forward into the city’s budget.

But it’s not likely that all of them will come to fruition this coming year, or even the next after that.

Over the last month different committees at the Guildhall have been proposing, discussing and voting on different scheme to be added to Worcester City Council’s budget for next year.

At Tuesday’s Policy and Resources Committee, all the different proposals were collated.

Apart from one item, a plan to change the floral displays in the city’s parks and gardens which would have costs £150,000, all were put through into the budget which will be decided by the whole council on February 20.

But if you add all the items up, they’ll cost about £1m more than the pot of money which would normally be used to fund them.

The 16 different schemes which include money to promote more non-social housing development, support workers to help the long-term unemployed and homeless to find and keep a job, and a refurbishment of play equipment in Battenhall Park, total £3.2 million. The City Plan fund stands at £2.1m

The council’s director of finance and resources Shane Flynn explains this isn’t quite the housekeeping problem it might appear to be.

He said: “There may be other sources of money we have that could be used, there’s a transformation budget, or income generation, and we’ll be looking at that.”

Shane and his team will assemble the list of projects into order.

He said: “If the priority is agreed, then projects will be funded when they come up, just because there’s a list, we’re not committing money to everything. This has to be agreed at full council, so councillors may vote to get rid of projects, or to add others.”

The meeting on February 20 at the Guildhall starts at 7pm.