Both of Acocks Green’s Neighbourhood Forums have met in the last week. The Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum (which covers the area to the north of the Warwick Road) met on Tuesday last week and the Fox Hollies Green Neighbourhood Forum (which covers the area to the south of the Warwick Road) met last night. The […]

Though the agenda was a little shorter than some recent meetings, this weeks meeting of Acocks Green Ward Committee  had several important issues to discuss: 1) Community Chest Grants: The following grants were made for the new financial year: Fox Hollies Football: FITCAP CIC. £6,000 granted (a further £3,500 deferred to the following meeting) to […]

National Express West Midlands just can’t leave our buses alone. Having had one of their ‘consultations’, they have decided the alter the 1 route, which was not part of the consultation. The 3 will no longer run from Shirley to Acocks Green and the 1 will be extended down through the Gospel Estate to Shirley […]

Last Wednesday’s meeting of the Acocks Green Ward Committee saw a number of important local issues discussed: There was an update on Environmental Issues with a focus on the Yardley Road. 34 Duty of Care visits were made on businesses in this area to check they have proper commercial waste contracts. While it would not […]

I’m told that Acocks Green Library will reopen on Tuesday 4th March. This is based on a promised hand back to the Council on Wednesday 19th February by the contractors. There then needs to be a deep clean of the carpets and fixtures, reinstallation of the IT equipment and a margin for error to sort […]

Yesterday evening I attended the latest Open Public Meeting of the Fox Hollies Green Neighbourhood Forum. This Forum covers Acocks Green Ward to the south of the Warwick Road and the east of the Fox Hollies Road. Dave Swingle gave an update on the work of the Fox Hollies Community Association (I sit on the […]

The House Of Play and Education (HOPE) are running a holiday club this coming half term. Details are on the attached poster. We are lucky to have a number of inspiring organisations like HOPE, who do important work in our community providing extra opportunities for young people to develop their potential in a fun way.

There was a very well attended public meeting of the Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum on Tuesday evening. Topics discussed included: A presentation by Joe Holyoak on the Acocks Green Conservation Area. This is largely on track in line with my notes from Octobers Ward Ctte here. Joe said that dates for the consultation events would […]

This week saw a meeting of Acocks Green’s Ward Committee, this time at Oaklands School. Our Environmental Health Officer, Kate Stanley, sent in a report:  She has been using Street Litter Control Notices to try to tackle the high levels of litter in Spring Road and Westley Road. Yardley Road, which has suffered from numerous […]

Acocks Green Station will soon be getting passenger lifts to allow those with disabilities or child buggies much easier access to the ticket hall and platforms. This has been a project the local Lib Dem team has long been campaigning for. We made no real progress while we had a Labour Government but happily the […]