Rendering plant chimney is approved by inspector
Plans for a rendering plant at Hopwood moved a step closer when a Government inspector gave the go-ahead for a 17 metre chimney on the site.
Here come the home plans
As Bromsgrove sifts through thousands of responses to its draft Core Strategy, housing applications for “Development Sites” earmarked in the proposals are already flowing in to the council’s planning department.
Pepper spray robbery blinds businessman
A Bromsgrove business owner was blinded by pepper spray in a robbery of what police say was a “large quantity of cash” in the town centre
Jake stars in golf contests
Age no handicap for Jake
Art of rock
The ‘least bad’ homes plan
Fears that the fields between Redditch and Alvechurch could be filled with new houses have been increased by proposals contained in a new study.
Parish Green Belt U-turn
A proposed retirement complex close to the heart of Alvechurch has put the parish council in a spin over its Green Belt policy.
A hall for the Oakalls
Sarah Rees reports from the Oakalls and Parklands . . .
Independents’ day
A large part of the Village area could soon by represented by independent councillors after a stunning result in the county elections and an enthralling by-election in Alvechurch.