A £665,000 revamp of Worcester's Diglis fields is about to get the nod - signalling the site's most significant revamp for a generation.

Worcester City Council's Conservative cabinet is meeting this Tuesday to rubber-stamp the hefty spending package, signalling months of work to completely transform the nature reserve and surrounding area.

A new report on the investment, money which has been sourced from housing developers, has revealed the final details of where it will be spent.

It includes:

- Opening up the river bank stretch between Cherry Orchard nature reserve and the newly-redeveloped River basin to provide new seating areas and landscaping offering views across to Worcester Cathedral

- New lighting to fully complete a lit route stretching from Worcester Bridge to Diglis Bridge and across to Lower Wick

- Extensive planting of trees and wildflowers to transform the "unwelcoming" north west section of the nature reserve, where it meets the landing point of Diglis Bridge, and new surfacing laid to match routes taken by people using the area

- Changes to the council's mowing plan to increase areas of longer grass and wildflowers around the fields, giving it a fresh appeal, and more tree planting

- New boundary fencing running the entire length of the eastern boundary of the fields, with the report saying it will "transform the appeal of the area"

- A hard surfaced path through the fields, new gates at all the entrances to make it safer for children, picnic benches and bins throughout the site

- Marked trails throughout the nature reserve linking to the riverside and new signs publicising the directions people can go in

- A small car park on the old children's play area, as well as an 'overflow' parking zone on the Cherry Orchard skip site

The plans follow months of work to firm up the details - and comes on the back of the new-look Diglis play area, which has just re-opened after an £80,000 revamp.

A proposal for outdoor gym equipment, first suggested last year, is not included.

The report calls Diglis "an historic part of the city that is becoming increasingly important" to Worcester's appeal, especially due to the nearby riverside and the housing development since the start of the century.

If it gets nodded through by the cabinet, detailed design work will be carried out in the expectation most aspects of the project will get underway across September, October and November, and be complete early next year.

The landscape work and planting though, will carry on right across the spring and summer of 2016.