RESIDENTS of a Malvern Link housing estate will get another chance to have their say on a £600,000 scheme to reclaim the streets.

The Duke of Edinburgh Way estate is to be turned into a "Home Zone" with street furniture, traffic calming and other measures to make the roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists.

The concept has been imported from Holland, where it has been a great success.

The scheme is backed by Worcestershire County Council and Elgar Housing, which owns many of the estate's houses.

The design has been put together in close consultation with the estate's residents, including children and young people, who created a three-dimensional model of the estate to help the project.

Planning exercises have been held during the last few months and residents have visited similar schemes which have been installed in Leeds and Manchester.

Now the latest design is to go on show on the estate in early to mid-May. The exact time and place will be announced shortly.

Home Zone co-ordinator Rachel Hammond said: "People have been able to say what they liked and what they are not so sure about and we have made changes in the light of that.

"Now we'd like as many people as possible to come to our exhibition and see what we've come up with."

The scheme includes benches, new road surfaces, planters and play areas, as well as parking and traffic management measures.

After May's exhibition, traffic regulation orders for the work will be sought and the project will then go out to tender. Work is not expected to start until next year.

Duke of Edinburgh Way is one of the first areas outside major cities to get Home Zone funding. It beat 22 other proposed projects across Worcestershire to be awarded the money.