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...
Gate ‘approval’ is a new low
Regarding the blocked public footpath at Barnt Green’s Foxhills estate (Village View, December 2019): if an unwelcome development is “inadvertently approved” then the district council must...
Why are the trees being felled?
Dear Editor – As daily walkers to the Lickey Country Park, we are surprised at the drastic cutting down of hundreds of healthy looking...
Lawton’s View
JUNE 2019
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...
Community spirit in ‘Lego Village’
My wife and I bought our “Lego House” in Cofton Hackett over four years ago. We settled in and watched happily as our family, and other families on Cofton Fields, grew.
Tories won’t stand up for village
I see that once again the Conservative Party has selected a district council candidate for Barnt Green & Hopwood who lives on the other...
Not a lot of allotments!
For the last year, I have tried unsuccessfully to obtain an allotment and it would appear that there is no official provision in Alvechurch...