Independent district councillors are aiming to solve the public transport riddle affecting village areas.
Lack of a convenient way to travel to work and school...
A parish council has relaunched its light-hearted “battle of the Santas and planters” with a neighbouring parish after coming second last year.
Barnt Green councillors...
Pinnies at the ready! (from the left) Emma Westwood, Naomi Pauley and Janet Millward enjoy the new kitchen at Blackwell Community Hall.
The unveiling of...
Beoley parish has seen three major planning decisions made to protect the Green Belt over the past month.
In the largest, Bromsgrove District Council’s planning...
An impasse over who should manage the playing fields and facilities at Rowney Green is closer to being resolved.Trustees of the neighbouring Rowney Green...
Blackwell Club hopped into action when lockdown meant they couldn’t open up to members and guests over Easter.A group of “bunnies” toured the village...
A nano-brewery in Wythall is in the process of registering a premises licence with Bromsgrove Council to start operating commercially.
Four Chaps Brewery, on Littleshaw Lane, will be brewing a...
Hannah Genders visits a village farmer whose philosophy is to ‘give something back’ and to enhance the land.
During lockdown earlier this year, many of...
The success of another parking bay for disabled drivers (“Co-op parking bay ideas”, The Village, June 2014) will depend on Alvechurch shoppers’ willingness to respect it.
Anyone who read the Rector of Alvechurch’s annual report in the April issue of the church publication The Grapevine will have seen brief mention of two small clouds on the horizon: the fall in the number of regular churchgoers and of those on the Electoral Roll, and “we have a deficit in our budget”. Let us look at these two matters.
We will not be the first parish to be abolished (“The end is nigh for Lickey End parish”, The Village May 2010); Southsea Town Council has been abolished following a five-month review of governance of the area it covers.
On the subject of wanting to reduce the bogginess of The Meadows playing fields in Alvechurch, I would like to offer the following information gleaned during my tenure as clerk to the Wiggin Memorial/Alvechurch Playing Field Trust that looks after the Meadows.
Dear Editor – I share Councillor Hotham’s frustration and despair (Take this lottery win, The Village, December 2020/January 2021). This is yet again a typical...
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