Thursday, March 28, 2024
Revellers enjoy The Blackwell Music Festival in 2016.

Blackwell festival appeals for new venue

The organisers of Blackwell Music Festival are hoping they can secure a new venue before they are forced to cancel the event. The Festival,...
Lickey Blackwell PC litterpick in Blackwell.

Help for litterpickers

Blackwell now has a Community Litter Pick Station, after the recent delivery of a new A-frame and accessories as part of a scheme by...

Keep Blackwell tidy

Lickey & Blackwell parish councillor Bakul Kumar suggested to colleagues that the parish should increase its efforts to keep tidy, perhaps with an “Adopt a...

Toposcope top-up

The toposcope on the Lickey Hills could benefit from “section 106” money left over from Cofton. District councillor Richard Deeming told parish councillors that Cofton didn’t...

Roads to be surveyed

Dale Hill in Blackwell is to be monitored by a traffic survey, with parish councillors hopeful it will prove the need for a warning sign...

Rain causes flooding

Recent heavy rain caused flooding near the junction of Twatling Road and Mearse Lane, and also on Plymouth Road and Linthurst Newtown. All were reported to...
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Hats off (or on!)

The "public gallery" at Lickey & Blackwell’s December parish council meeting (district councillor Richard Deeming, Ron Smith, Keith Woolford, Sue and Roy Hughes, Angus...
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Plan gets a big ‘yes’

Lickey & Blackwell and Cofton Hackett parish councillors are delighted that residents voted to accept their Neighbourhood Development Plan. Six years in the making, the...
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Season’s Greetings!

Villagers in Barnt Green, Blackwell, Lickey and Alvechurch celebrated the start of Christmas with music and light. Barnt Green added to its decorations this year...
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Vote YES to your Plan

Lickey & Blackwell and Cofton Hackett parish councillors are encouraging all residents to say “Yes” to their Neighbourhood Development Plan in a referendum on...