The Hive set to reach one million visitor target by first anniversary

3:40pm Monday 25th February 2013 in News By Neil Watts

The Hive set to reach visitor target The Hive set to reach visitor target

ONE of Worcester’s newest buildings is well on course to attracting one million visitors ahead of its first anniversary.

The Hive has welcomed 600,000 people through its doors in Sawmill Walk, the Butts, in just 224 days after seeing nearly 84,000 drop into the joint initiative between Worcestershire County Council and the University of Worcester during January.

The combined public and university resources has been hugely popular with 645,000 items issued already and 14,000 new people joining since the opening in July last year.

Laura Worsfold, business development manager for the Hive, said: "The Hive has become an inspiring place that everyone in the local community can enjoy.

“We have a fantastic facility, a great range of services and an exciting programme of events all under one roof. It’s wonderful to have seen so many people through the doors in such a relatively short period of time."

Unique computer usage is averaging 650 people per day, with both university students and the public using the facility.

The Worcestershire Hub Customer Service Centre has helped nearly 48,000 people and the county's archives and archaeology service has attracted many new customers.

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More Tea Vicar says...
4:52pm Mon 25 Feb 13

I wish they could stop bombarding us with PR like this.

The building is bound to attract a lot of visitors, given its purpose and its central location.

But we, the public, have no way of knowing if these stats are true or meaningful. We are told there is a target, and I have no doubt it will be met - just the same as exam targets were met under Labour.

Are the stats independently verified? Are they compared to anything meaningful?

Any time I've been there, most of the monitors seemed to be set to Facebook.

No mention here of the problems faced by students (noise and distraction), for example.

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Jabbadad says...
5:07pm Mon 25 Feb 13

My son goes there quite regularly over the weekends and after work hours, and he says he cannot understand the criticism over the noise levels, and when inside it is truly a lovely building.

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Landy44 says...
6:04pm Mon 25 Feb 13

It's a great location and facility, but the comment above is correct - We don't need council propaganda on how great a success this has been - we need more cost reduction, smaller local government, and frankly we need to not hear anything about, from, or relating to local councils who should be doing the minimum they can to provide minimum services at lowest cost right now. That is all.

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Countyconcilemployee says...
6:51pm Tue 26 Feb 13

Due to council spin the new university library will always be on target. Of course a lot of people go, the county council forces us to with the incredibly misguided idea of grouping those services together. Only an idiot would think it is a good idea to place an open plan archive on the floor above the playground that is the entrance area. Instead of pay rises, staff parties and stupid staff floor walking policies, they should have made sure all the staff were fully trained (instead of only some) and the concept was user led rather than manipulated for personal career gains.

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