Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Ideas requested for future of village buses

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...

Battle of the Santas and planters . . . 2

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...

Calagate: What is going on?

Frustration is growing over the lack of action to enforce access to public open space on a village housing estate. In the long-running saga now...

The Baron of Barnt Green

A new life peer has chosen Barnt Green as his territorial title in recognition of his love for the village. Charles Banner (below), a leading...

More Village News

Fresh ideas for motorway nature reserve

When Hopwood Park motorway service station was being built 25 years ago, one of its main selling points to the village community was the...

Kitchen delight

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...

Green Belt preserved

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...

Rowney Green fields vote

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...

Bordesley’s creative side

Bordesley is fighting back to demonstrate that it is a residential area that really matters to the people who live there.They were stung into...

Eggcellent fun in Blackwell

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...

Four Chaps brew up a business

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...

Village Features

Welcome to the Fieldson Orchard

The legacy of Rob Fieldson’s work will live on in many ways, but there will now be a lasting tribute in his name, thanks...

FARMING WITH NATURE

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...

WARM, WET AND NOISY

Village weatherman Phil Thomas records the changes August was a warmer than average month in The Village area, with a mean temperature of...

‘Selfies’ in space

Village astronomer Brian Watkiss peers into the night sky . . . . Here we are in the middle of October already and the nights...

BACK TO THE ROOTS

Mary Green visits the farm where she grew up to see the benefits of organic methods. What an odd year it has been. It was...

25 years of Village Views

Will bays be shown respect by shoppers?

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.

What a rubbish system!

For some reason known only to them, the binmen left our bags of rubbish on the pavement last Tuesday morning near the centre of Alvechurch.

In praise of parish councils

After reading the article in the Bromsgrove Standard by the “leaders” of Bromsgrove District Council, I don’t know whether to believe my eyes.

Don’t abuse ‘tree huggers’

Dear Editor – The phrase “tree hugger”, as used in the letter “Too many people on the planet?” in The Village magazine last month,...

School governor sought

A vacancy has arisen for a new co-opted governor at Crown Meadow First School, Alvechurch. The term of office is four years.

Church ‘facing crisis’

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.

Lickey End second

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.

Have The Meadows been short-changed?

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. 

Car park safety concerns

I want to raise a very real concern about the car park provided by the builders of the new estate on Fiery Hill. 

Lawton’s View

MAY 2017

Lawton's View May 2017

Latest VILLAGE VIEWS

Dog danger plea after ewe plunge

Dear Editor – They say that sheep are only good at doing three things:- Limping, escaping and dying. My smallholding includes a bridle-path that is...

Watch out for Birmingham!

Dear Editor – I read with interest the articles on planning in the last issue. It appears this Government wants to change the planning laws...

Half a century of nothing

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...

What good apples you are!

Dear Editor – Last October/November we had so many cooking apples I decided to put some in a tray at the roadside to see if...

Average speed cameras would slow traffic

Dear Editor – Having recently returned to Hopwood and having been born in Alvechurch, I can agree that drivers need to be more respectful...

How can we slow down the Swan Street morons?

Dear Editor – Is there anything that can be done about the speeding after the pinch-point heading towards Redditch, on Swan Street in Alvechurch?...

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