PLANS to renovate a town centre garden in need of a clean-up moved a step closer after a special meeting of Malvern Town Council.

Members voted to take the next steps in renovating Rose Bank Gardens, off the Wells Road entrance to the town centre.

The work will include clearing the bank running between the garden and Wells Road, and re-painting the site’s railings and gate.

Town clerk Richard Chapman said the bank has become overgrown with brambles and ivy, which will be removed.

He said that residents of Warwick House had complained to him about the unkempt state of the bank.

Councillor Pat Mewton said that attention also had to be paid to paths in the upper part of the garden, which were “dangerously”

slippery.

Mr Chapman said that “decades of detritus” would be removed.

Council members also voted to create an eight-strong working party to consider ideas for the future of the gardens.