Bromsgrove

Would-be village housing developers face a very long wait for permission to build any new homes in this area, it has been revealed.

Sarah Rees reports from the Oakalls and Parklands.

A new play area is due to open in Blackwell this month on a site opposite the village school in St Catherine’s Road.

Developer Banner Homes is holding a consultation in Barnt Green this afternoon (June 29) to show villagers its controversial plans for the field beside Fiery Hill Road.

Bromsgrove District Council recently published its proposed District Plan, which you can find at https://www.bromsgrove.gov.uk. If accepted, it will come into force next year, writes Mary Green.

Village MP and newly-appointed Culture Secretary Sajid Javid insists that he’s still committed to his constituents, despite the added pressures of his national role.

The Chairman of Bromsgrove District Council’s Bromsgrove Flyer charity steam train trip on the Severn Valley Railway raised £3,800.

Three Alvechurch teenagers show their Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award certificates outside St James’ Palace, London, after a presentation by Prince Philip.

As Lickey End parish comes to an end on 1.1.2011, we reproduce an article from The Village magazine in 2002 on the crazy political stalemate . . .

If you made it up, no one would believe you. A brand new parish where all ten councillors are elected with the sole intention of abolishing themselves. Yet a year later, they are still there, holding meetings – and may yet have to stand for election again to a council they don’t want to exist.

The only independent candidate to stand for Bromsgrove Council in The Village area has swept aside the Tory challenge.