Work to interchange and improve the Avon Meadows Boardwalk in Pershore is ready to start imminently after Wychavon District Council agreed to fund the mission earlier this week. The route has been closed since September 2025 after the boardwalk, constructed from recycled plastic, was deemed unsafe resulting from flooding and warmth injury. Councillor Beverley Hardman, …
Work to interchange and improve the Avon Meadows Boardwalk in Pershore is ready to start imminently after Wychavon District Council agreed to fund the mission earlier this week.Â
The route has been closed since September 2025 after the boardwalk, constructed from recycled plastic, was deemed unsafe resulting from flooding and warmth injury.Â
Councillor Beverley Hardman, government board member for surroundings at Wychavon District Council, mentioned: “I’m delighted we’re making this extra funding in Pershore’s Avon Meadows.
“It will help the work of the Associates of Avon Meadows, who assist look after the positioning and its wildlife, and whose efforts we’re grateful for.
“The upgraded boardwalk won’t solely restore a key route residents inform us they’ve a lot missed however can even enhance the positioning’s accessibility so much more individuals can entry the wetlands and the well being advantages of being near nature.”
The brand new boardwalk will likely be constructed utilizing a timber-and-steel design that higher withstands flooding and different excessive climate occasions.
It would even be wider to accommodate wheelchairs, mobility scooters, pushchairs, and prams.
Entry gates across the website will likely be upgraded to additional enhance accessibility.
Development is predicted to start within the coming weeks, with the goal of finishing the mission by October.
Nevertheless, if work can’t be completed by then, it would proceed in levels, as the bottom is usually waterlogged or underwater throughout different components of the yr.
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Councillor Dan Boatright-Greene has welcomed the information.
He mentioned: “The crew has been working actually onerous on this one.
“It has been a tricky one as a result of it is a delicate space for any constructing.
“Entry was actually essential to us as a result of some individuals actually struggled to open the kissing gates, particularly individuals in mobility scooters.
“There can even be two new benches and passing factors, which is de facto thrilling, and can make issues a bit simpler.
“It feels prefer it’s been closed for greater than a yr.
“It is a kind of issues that you do not miss till it is gone.
“The worth just isn’t seen till you do not have it.
“I used to make use of it twice per week myself.
“It is a actually nice strategy to stroll into the city centre.
“It is not simply utilized by canine walkers both; a number of individuals use it to commute, and so they in a short time realised how essential it was.
“We have now to get it in place as rapidly as doable.”
As soon as accomplished, the brand new boardwalk will restore a preferred inexperienced route linking the city centre with close by housing, Pershore Excessive Faculty, the railway station, and native employment websites.
