WORK to make a Herefordshire park more user-friendly is underway.

Herefordshire Council’s parks, countryside and leisure development service are improving and re-aligning pathways at Leominster’s Sydonia Park following an upgrade of the children’s play area.

Poor quality paths leading to features which are now obsolete will be removed and the ground re-instated.

The work is being carried out by Amey Wye Valley Ltd in conjunction with Tarmac Construction.

“The new paths will follow the public rights of way and create new accesses to the upgraded play area,” said special projects officer Geoff Dimbylow.

“They will also meet new disabled access standards, provide more direct, safer routes to school and assist with a future scheme to improve the security for residents of Eaton Close.”

The work is expected to take two weeks to complete.