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Posted on January 22 2012

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on October 23 2011

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Posted on September 26 2011

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Posted on August 24 2011

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Posted on July 02 2011

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on May 23 2011

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Posted on April 19 2011

Save these fields from the bulldozer
Posted on March 28 2011

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on February 22 2011

How many birds will you spot?
Posted on January 27 2011

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on January 23 2011

The VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on December 03 2010

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on November 01 2010

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on October 04 2010

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on August 23 2010

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Posted on June 23 2010

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Posted on May 25 2010

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Posted on April 24 2010

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Posted on March 20 2010

TheVillage View - What we've been saying

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on January 22 2012 0 comments

FEBRUARY 2012

It might seem that this space has become the “knock Bromsgrove District Council” column. We don’t mean to, of course, but there seems to be such a disconnect between what we, the people who pay for the council’s services, want and what we get.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on October 23 2011 1 comments

NOVEMBER 2011

At last the menace of motorists speeding through our villages appears to have come to the notice of those who can do something about it.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on September 26 2011 0 comments

OCTOBER 2011

Crime has dropped to remarkably low levels across Alvechurch parish, according to police reports. And this is at a time when we might expect to see more trouble as economic conditions deteriorate. So what’s going on?

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on August 24 2011 0 comments

SEPTEMBER 2011

It must sometimes seem this column is devoted to criticism of Bromsgrove District Council, from fears that it will allow developers to eat into our green belt to a woeful lack of response to residents’ warnings of overtipping in the Lickey Hills.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on July 02 2011 0 comments

JULY/AUGUST 2011

It is no wonder residents have mixed feelings over the latest events surrounding Marlbrook Tip. On the one hand, a near-ten-year “nightmare” is probably over; but as they awake from it, they are rubbing their eyes in disbelief at a council that appears to be sweeping more than a million cubic metres of dirt under the carpet.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on May 23 2011 0 comments

JUNE 2011

It is 100 years this month since Birmingham took a giant leap south and annexed a large chunk of Worcestershire.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on April 19 2011 0 comments

MAY 2011

We have been puzzling for some weeks now over the rush to transform into building sites the Green Belt fields protecting our villages from urbanisation.

Save these fields from the bulldozer
Posted on March 28 2011 1 comments

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.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on February 22 2011 2 comments

MARCH 2011

It must be protest-fatigue, or something like that . . . When proposals for the biggest planning misnomer of all time – ‘Areas of Development Restraint’ (ADRs, or future building sites) – on the Green Belt around our villages were put forward in the late 1990s, there was uproar.

How many birds will you spot?
Posted on January 27 2011 0 comments

Village weatherman Phil Thomas counted the different birds he saw in his Alvechurch garden over 2010 and compiled the list below, with a total of 44 species.
  We wonder if anyone can count more in their garden over this year – or if anyone sees any unusual birds. Let us know.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on January 23 2011 0 comments

FEBRUARY 2011

We have been berated for suggesting in our last issue that the voters of this area will always be blue – and have even been told that we helped June Griffiths to get elected as the county councillor for Alvechurch division by suggesting that the outcome was a foregone conclusion.

The VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on December 03 2010 0 comments

DECEMBER 2010
George Lord’s political demise means Alvechurch’s new representative in Worcester can focus entirely on fighting for her electors free from the demands of leadership of the county council.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on November 01 2010 0 comments

November 2010

Goodbye, Bromsgrove, hello. . .Redditch? Barnt Green, Cofton Hackett and Lickey inextricably linked to a distant new town rather than our historic market town?

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on October 04 2010 0 comments

October 2010

PACT is reborn in Alvechurch – rejoice! Well, let’s hope so. Readers will be aware of our support for grassroots forums and our fear that the people of a large community would be left with little or no voice after the demise of the previous incarnation of Partners And Communities Together . . .

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on August 23 2010 0 comments

September 2010

What’s in a name? Quite a lot, it would seem, if the goings-on at the boundary between Blackwell and Burcot are anything to go by.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on June 23 2010 0 comments

July/August 2010

So now we know . . . the MUGA play area in Alvechurch is a much-used facility and appreciated by many young families in the village. In the past we had only heard from those who opposed it; just didn’t want it anywhere near them, even before it had been built.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on May 25 2010 0 comments

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.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on April 24 2010 0 comments

May 2010

You’ll probably be reading this just before or after casting your vote in what has become an interesting time for the Bromsgrove constituency.

THE VILLAGE VIEW
Posted on March 20 2010 0 comments

April 2010

So, the green shoots of the grass roots have been condemned as too exotic a growth in these straitened times and the brief lives of our neighbourhood groups in Alvechurch and Rubery are over. What a shame.

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