Once used for fly-tipping, the transformation is also proving popular with local walkers.
Wildflowers have sprouted across the former golf course after seeds were sown in the area
It worked with Worcestershire Wildlife Trust as part of a scheme called Natural Networks, which was aimed at improving wildlife "corridors" in the county.Funding included £1.2m from the European Regional Development Fund and £300,000 from the government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The efforts have been "brilliant" in attracting visitors from nearby Stourport-on-Severn, Kidderminster and Bewdley, local walker Jan Roberts said.The efforts at the recently named Burlish Meadows will help connect up nature sites in Worcestershire, Steve Bloomfield, from the wildlife trust, said. "We are in a very impoverished, rather fragmented natural environment in this country and putting these sort of spaces back in is really important," he said.
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