Plans to redevelop a former industrial estate into a new campus for health, wellbeing and inclusive sport are set to be put forward by the University of Worcester.

These new facilities will connect the University of Worcester Arena and the adjoining Riverside building - creating a new Severn Campus.

Work is already under way to transform the former Berrows House building into a state-of-the-art teaching facility for health professional students.

It is intended that the Severn Campus will also become home to an international inclusive cricket and education centre, along with further teaching facilities.

Professor David Green CBE DL, Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, said: “The development of the Severn Campus will build on our outstanding work to educate students to work in a variety of health and wellbeing professions, from medicine to inclusive sport.

“The University is the major educator of the nurses and midwives who serve Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as well as much of Gloucestershire, Dudley and Halesowen.

"The desperate shortage of health professionals in the region and much of the country means that we have been allocated several hundred extra places a year for health professional students – particularly nurses – and we need to expand our clinical simulation facilities.

“For several years now, the University has been working with England Disability Cricket, the Worcestershire Cricket Board and County Cricket Club and the England Cricket Board on a project to create the world’s first inclusive cricket education centre.

"This centre will provide both an important national facility and plentiful opportunities for children and the wider community in Worcester and beyond to gain educational, cricket and well-being skills.”

The University will also be making a planning application in the coming weeks to install important infrastructure at the site that will improve pedestrian, wheelchair and cycling connectivity between the Riverside, Sabrina Bridge and St John’s.

Ahead of the planning application submission, the University would like to hear from the community about its proposals and has set up a questionnaire which people can complete on its website www.worcester.ac.uk/capital-developments