THE VILLAGE VIEW
June 2010
It’s refreshing to watch the birth of something so positive in our village lives. The need for some sort of youth club in a settlement as large as Alvechurch has been glaringly obvious for a very long time, but no individual or organisation was able to get beyond flirting with the idea.
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Times, they are a changin’ . . . and they will keep on changing whatever any of us may feel about it.
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So, now we know . . . vehicles really are speeding through our area at a rate higher than ever imagined.
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To mow, or not to mow? On the one hand, we have correspondence from a reader wanting to see a play area properly maintained; and on the other from a commuter who would like to see a bank of grass and wildflowers by a station left alone to give him something to look at while waiting for his morning train.
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THE VILLAGE VIEW
DECEMBER 2013
What on earth has happened to the leader of our district council? His intervention in the planning deliberations over a Green Belt field at Hopwood is surprising, to say the least.
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We agree wholeheartedly with our correspondent about the menace of pavement parkers. Why people decide it’s better to block the path rather the road is beyond our understanding.
Save these fields from the bulldozer
THE VILLAGE VIEW - April 2011
More than 11 years ago, The Village magazine ran a front cover almost identical to the one on its current issue. We felt it worth repeating because the threat to our villages has returned – and this time it is even more dangerous.
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FEBRUARY 2014
As you can read in this month’s letters, the antics of politicians and other decision-makers sometimes leave those they represent hopping in eye-popping frustration.
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District and county councillors should act solely in the interests of the residents who vote for them and represent the area they have been chosen to speak up for . . . how difficult can this be?