Friday, March 29, 2024

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Climate change has rarely, if ever, been the focus of this column over the past 20 or so years –  perhaps because it always...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

How often have we or someone else said: “At least we’ll be able to make our voices heard at the ballot box”? Well, it’s...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Even though it’s summer and we usually give the bees in our bonnet a rest for a month or two, there’s one that just...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

What a fine mess party politics has got us all into. After more than two years, the mist has lifted to reveal a Prime...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

The independent wave continued to wash over The Village area in the Bromsgrove Council elections. The whole tract from Redditch, through Beoley, Portway, Alvechurch,...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Yet again, the chairman of Alvechurch Parish felt compelled at the council’s monthly meeting to urge adults to talk to their children about the...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Predictably, there are now around 300 sites, mostly in our Green Belt, jostling for the jackpot: an “APPROVED” stamp on an application to turn...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

Well, that’s a bit of a surprise: the planners at Bromsgrove District Council are standing up to the developers who have gated off a...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

The local elections fall at an awkward time for this magazine: we have to go to press with this issue before the deadline for...

THE VILLAGE VIEW

If there was a Top 10 of “You Couldn’t Make It Ups”, the Marlbrook Tip debacle would surely be a chart-topper. It has been...