A Taste of What Villagers are Saying . . .
Posted on February 27 2020 at 4:28:24 0 comments
MARCH 2020
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:27:24 0 comments
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 fields they outline into yet another housing estate.
‘Hostile’ plans for Green Belt
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:26:24 0 comments
Early last year the substantial Bromsgrove District Plan document was marketed depicting benign agency models alongside an almost impenetrably extensive questionnaire (think developer site hoarding only as part of an exam).
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:25:24 0 comments
Month on month your pages reflect the gradual decline of our so-called democracy. Our elected representatives at local and national level are abrogating their responsibilities to the legal establishment and the general public.
Spend our money on Cofton, please
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:24:24 0 comments
Can I say how appalled I was to read that some undisclosed amount left over from Cofton’s section 106 money would be spent on the Lickey toposcope (News in Brief, February 2020).
Too many people on the planet?
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:23:24 0 comments
Last month’s letters and Village View reflected the current media emphasis on ecological issues, but avoided referring to a major contributor – human beings.
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:21:24 0 comments
I have seen first-hand how much effort, expertise and thought has been put into planning and the legal side of the new Cofton Village Hall by the Trustees.
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:20:24 0 comments
People think I am a bit mad when I say that I think the downstairs committee room of Alvechurch Village Hall would make an ideal post office for the village.
‘Cowardly’ note left on carer’s car
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:20:24 0 comments
To the individual who left a typed/printed note on a car outside Malvern Grange Flats on Greenhurst Drive in Barnt Green: this obscene and abusive note left on a carer’s car, parked while on duty, is not being taken lightly.
The wording was very unpleasant and contained various swear words, all of which was intended to intimidate, and the note has been photographed by the carer.
I have spoken to the neighbours near to Malvern Grange, who were horrified at the note.
Windmill Hill Care would like to say that although carers can make mistakes parking while on duty, it is not intentional or done with malice. On this occasion the carer had not parked incorrectly or blocked any drive or bend on this road.
This was a coward’s way of dealing with a situation. If the author had the decency to leave a polite note with contact details, it would of course be dealt with.
What a shame that individuals like this live in our village.
Jackie Grant RN, Windmill Hill Care
Posted on February 27 2020 at 3:19:24 0 comments
In reference to the letter in February titled: You just can’t get the staff. . . is this individual for real?
Posted on January 29 2020 at 4:24:32 0 comments
FEBRUARY 2020
Posted on January 29 2020 at 4:22:04 0 comments
Climate change has rarely, if ever, been the focus of this column over the past 20 or so years – perhaps because it always seemed a global crisis rather than one that could be tackled at village level.
Posted on January 29 2020 at 4:20:08 0 comments
Elections can bring out the best and worse in people, not just politicians, and throw up a whole caboodle of surprises.
Praise for village illuminations
Posted on January 29 2020 at 3:19:32 0 comments
Barnt Green village after dark is usually fairly gloomy – the street lighting being far from satisfactory – especially compared with the adjacent rail station.
Farming methods have to change
Posted on January 29 2020 at 4:17:08 0 comments
In her otherwise excellent analysis “What can we do for wildlife?” (The Village, January 2020), Mary Green reinforces the idea that it’s still OK to eat meat.
You just can’t get the staff. . .
Posted on January 29 2020 at 3:14:32 0 comments
I was interested to read a letter in December’s Village which rightly recommended “paying your gardener to do a proper job” of clearing up leaves.
Disgust at dog poo in graveyard
Posted on January 29 2020 at 3:13:32 0 comments
I want to voice my utter disgust at what my family experienced on Christmas Day.
Posted on January 29 2020 at 3:43:27 0 comments
I drive along the Old Birmingham Road in Lickey frequently and have noticed the disappearance of the creepy child bollard.
Posted on January 29 2020 at 2:42:27 0 comments
This illustration by Simon Woolford, for the Lickey Community Group newsletter, reflects the apparent confusion of some residents when voting in the Lickey & Blackwell and Cofton Neighbourhood Plan.
Posted on December 19 2019 at 12:33:15 0 comments
JANUARY 2020
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:27:15 0 comments
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 planned public right of way through Barnt Green.
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:25:15 0 comments
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 be incompetent.
Where were the ‘eyes and ears’?
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:24:15 0 comments
As chairman of the late Lickey End Parish Council, I was frequently told that parish councils are the “eyes and ears “of the parish and as such play a valuable role in scrutinising/reporting on parish-related planning matters.
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:22:15 0 comments
I’ve been patient; I really, really have, but I feel that the issue needs to be raised once again.
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:21:15 0 comments
I know this has been said many times before, but when is the car park at Alvechurch railway station going to be completed?
Posted on December 19 2019 at 11:20:15 0 comments
Quite rightly, dog walkers come under fire for not cleaning up after their dog, but horse riders seem to get a free pass. They seem to let their animals poop with gay abandon.
Posted on November 29 2019 at 3:05:56 0 comments
DECEMBER 2019
Posted on November 29 2019 at 2:05:56 0 comments
It’s hard to believe that, with everything else going on in the world and the country (apparently there’s a General Election), we find ourselves once again exercised to the point of distraction by the planners of Bromsgrove.
Posted on November 29 2019 at 2:04:56 0 comments
Your article “Green Belt roll-back” (October 2019) highlights a concern that the new Bromsgrove District Council (BDC) Plan Review is keeping the GL Hearn study (a desktop study by London consultants) as an option
Posted on November 29 2019 at 2:04:56 0 comments
It’s great to see community spirit in Alvechurch channelled into “green” things like litter clearance and making the village as plastic-free as possible.
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