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Businesses urged to get up to speed with superfast broadband
Small and medium-sized businesses across Birmingham are being urged to sign up for grants enabling them to benefit from superfast broadband.Digital Birmingham is offering connection vouchers worth...
View ArticleWheelie bin roadshows come to north Birmingham
Residents in north Birmingham are being invited to a series of Wheelie Bin Roadshow sessions to learn more about upcoming changes to refuse collection in their neighbourhood. Wheelie Bins are being...
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Community Governance consultation
Or to put it another way – what do you think of local democracy? Cllr Sir Albert Bore Birmingham City Council wants to know what people think of local democracy, how it is, and how it should be. It...
View ArticleSutton Town Council – council’s conclusions published
Birmingham City Council has today (Friday 22 May) published its conclusions regarding the proposal to create a Town Council for Sutton Coldfield within Birmingham. A petition was submitted to...
View ArticleNorth Birmingham wheelie bins – launch update
Kevin Mitchell, Assistant Director of Fleet and Waste Management, blogs on the introduction of wheelie bins to north Birmingham, collections of which started last week – and explains why you may see...
View ArticleSutton Town Council ballot papers on their way
Sutton residents are reminded that they’ll receive ballot papers and background information through the post next week concerning the proposal for a Town Council. The consultative postal ballot takes...
View ArticleSutton Town Council consultative ballot – Yes vote
The Sutton Town Council consultative ballot, which forms part of a wider consultation, closed at 3pm on Thursday 16 July 2015. In answer to the question – Should a Town Council be established for the...
View ArticleGo-ahead for Surface Water Management Plan
A document highlighting areas of Birmingham at risk of flooding and setting out how these issues should be managed is due to be approved by cabinet. The Surface Water Management Plan, developed by...
View ArticleMotorist who fly-tipped garden waste due to ‘horrendous’ smell is fined
A motorist who dumped plastic bags containing garden waste at the side of a Sutton Coldfield road has been ordered to pay more than £1,400. Paul Andrew McHugh, of Wheatmore Grove, Sutton Coldfield, was...
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Sutton Town Council – the next step
Further to the Community Governance Review, which included the Sutton Town Council consultative ballot during June and July, the Community Governance Review Group is recommending the creation of a...
View ArticleTackling rogue traders by raising awareness
Birmingham Trading Standards officers have stepped up their campaign against rogue traders by visiting places where members of the public can withdraw money to encourage them to look out for and report...
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Holly clearance at Sutton Park
On Monday 23 November work will begin to thin overgrown woodland at Sutton Park. The work will last for approximately eight weeks and will remove heavily overgrown holly to give broadleaf oak trees new...
View ArticleR2JUNK2: Recycling star wars against waste
The artistic force has been with a resourceful Birmingham citizen – who has used other people’s unwanted items to help build a replica of one of the world’s most famous droids. R2JUNK2 was created by...
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Formal handover of Sutton Coldfield Civic Regalia
The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Cllr Raymond Hassall, will formally present the Sutton Coldfield Civic Regalia to the chairman of the Interim Parish Council, Cllr Anne Underwood, during a Civic Reception...
View ArticleSutton Coldfield Parish Council welcomed by Secretary of State
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Greg Clark MP, has shown his support for the creation of a Sutton Coldfield Parish Council in a statement read out by Birmingham City...
View ArticleGet your dog microchipped for free
Dog owners across Birmingham are being encouraged to get their pets microchipped before a new change in the law comes into effect next month. As people prepare to bring their dogs to Crufts (10-13...
View ArticleFormer couple jailed for stealing more than £400k
A Birmingham letting agent and her former boyfriend were today (22 April 2016) jailed for a total of 7 years for stealing more than £400,000 from a Sutton Coldfield lettings agency and its clients over...
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Birmingham City Council wins award for social housing
Birmingham City Council has won ‘Social Housing Provider of the Year’ at the Insider Residential Property Awards 2016. The award highlighted the work of the Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT)...
View ArticleSutton Coldfield businesses back BID with new five-year term
The Sutton Coldfield Town Centre Business Improvement District (BID) has been backed by the business community, with companies voting to extend for another five years. Following the successful ballot...
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Birmingham school pupils name road for latest housing scheme
Children from New Hall Junior School in Sutton Coldfield helped to celebrate the latest Birmingham Municipal Housing Trust (BMHT) housing development after they named the new road for a bungalow scheme...
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