A bit of a hidden gem, but is just outside the town centre, off Hampton Lane. As well a cracking cafe/restaurant (why not go for an afternoon tea?) there are plants for sale and a short route where you can feed goats/sheep (small fee for the food). It’s a superb place and you can find … More NEWLANDS BISHOP FARM, SOLIHULL
The data will be confirmed later this summer but whilst the data shows a reduction in fatalities, seriously injured and all casualties, there is still a lot more to be done in order to reduce them and make our roads even safer. The report can be found here: ras91.ods
Following our annual council earlier this week, scrutiny boards meet next week and one of the first is one that scrutinises my portfolio – the Stronger Communities and Neighbourhood Services Scrutiny Board At the first meeting of the year cabinet portfolio holders present a report outlining their priorities for the coming municipal year. The report … More Environment and Infrastructure Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Key Priorities for 2026-27
Two important issues came before yesterday evenings cabinet meting. The first one was the Crisis Support and Housing Payment Policy. The introduction to the reports reads ‘ The Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) is a national programme for local authorities inEngland designed to provide a strengthened local welfare safety net by supportinglow-income households who experience … More Reports to Solihull Cabinet
(An early information post, with dates for upcoming roadshows to explain the changes in the image below). Residents in Solihull will benefit from a new weekly food waste recycling collection this autumn, helping to turn their waste into renewable energy and fertiliser for local farms. Solihull Council will begin the service for most households from … More New weekly food waste collection coming to Solihull.
Two weeks late posting this but I am very pleased to have been re-elected to serve in (the newly named) St Alphege with Monkspath and Hillfield ward. This was an ‘all up’ election with the first three being elected for between one and four years.
Another piece of excellent news for the town centre is a ‘soon to be’ planning application by ‘Heartwood Collection’ to transform the former Missoula Luna to become ‘The Muddy Fox’ on the High Street, a contemporary ‘pub with rooms’ in the listed building. Solihull Council has announced it has entered an agreement with the award-winning Heartwood … More THE MUDDY FOX COMES TO SOLIHULL TOWN CENTRE
The councils Education Sufficiency Strategy (2025-2028) is to be adopted at the Children and Education Decision Session next week. The full report and appendices can be reached via this link: https://democracy.solihull.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx… The strategy is a rolling one, updated regularly, to take into account the numbers of pupils in our schools and how planning for school … More Solihull Education Sufficiency Strategy
I have cribbed most of this from the Dept of Transport webpage. Network Rail (NR) is proposing to close the railway station at Bordesley, Birmingham, on or after 4 June 2029. NR has developed plans to increase the capacity and connectivity of the Midlands Regional Rail network by providing more services into Birmingham’s Moor Street and … More Bordesley railway station closure
I wish to update you regarding action I promised following the nasty collisions that took place last year. At my cabinet decision session on Tuesday evening I agreed officers’ recommendations for road safety measures on Church Hill Road. It was recommended that both pedestrian crossings on the road should be raised, creating a tabletop to … More Road safety measures on Church Hill Road
Ken Hawkins 