PLANS to help the Malvern Hills recover from the Covid pandemic will be discussed tonight.

Councillors will debate proposals to renew the council's coronavirus recovery plan.

The plan, unveiled in 2020, is in need of a revamp, the council says, because some of its proposals have already been completed ahead of schedule.

At the Executive Committee meeting on September 21, councillors will examine which parts of the recovery plan should be kept and which parts should change going forward.

Under the plan, a number of projects and investments were named to help the district's economy.

Council papers say: "The Coronavirus Recovery CPG was established by the Leader in May 2020 to advise and monitor how the then recovery framework was being implemented.

"Over twelve months on from this we have delivered many of the actions in our initial recovery plan and some are no longer as relevant.

"The new Recovery Plan 2021-2023 is about our role in leading and supporting our communities and economy as we emerge from lockdown and the easing of restrictions.

"The Plan is centred around two key themes: our economy and our communities, and builds on the Five Year Plan."

Planned actions to help the district include helping as many as 100 local businesses grow through start-up and growth plans.

Also in the plans are grants programmes within local businesses and promoting Kickstart placement and other employment programmes to local residents

The £500,000 community recovery fund, created by the council, will be used to Use the £500,000 Economic Recovery Fund to help businesses attract more footfall to the town and help community schemes to get back on track.

The plans continue: "This new recovery plan is about our role in leading and supporting our communities and economy as we emerge from lockdown and the easing of restrictions to look ahead to aspirations for our district as a new form of normality is increasingly restored.

"We want to use the opportunities created by the pandemic, however unwanted, to reopen and rebuild our communities and economy in a way that improves people’s lives, the places they live and society as a whole, rather than simply trying to restore everything that previously existed."