Representing Stirchley Residents
The Mobile Household Recycling Centre returns to Stirchley on Wednesday 31st May from 7am – 12.45pm (midday) on the Hazelwell Fordrough near The Hazelwell Pub.
For information on all of the council’s waste services visit birmingham.gov.uk/waste or to book a slot at their FREE household recycling centres visit birmingham.gov.uk/hrc
A reminder that Birmingham Pride will be returning to the city centre over the weekend of Friday 26th to Sunday 28th May 2023.
For the Pride parade on Saturday 27 May, there will be road closures in place throughout the day, and this will affect public transport with a number of bus diversions in place. There are no train strikes scheduled for this weekend, so it may be easier to use the Cross City train line from Bournville station.
Whilst the Great Birmingham Run, which takes place on Sunday 7th May, does not pass through Stirchley this year, there will be some road closures that may affect residents moving around the city.
The Great Birmingham Run starts on Broad Street and finishes in Smithfield. The route will visit new parts of the city like Jewellery Quarter and West Side before heading south back out towards Selly Park via Pershore Road, returning through Cannon Hill Park and Edgbaston Cricket Ground and into the finish within Smithfield.
Pershore Road (South of Edgbaston Cricket Ground) to Dog Pool Lane will be closed from 04:00 15:30. The Pershore Road south of the cricket ground and Belgrave Middleway will be closed from 06:00 until 15:30. There are some other more local roads that will be closed in Selly Park, including Kensington Road and Selly Park Road that will be closed between 08:00 and 15:00.
Cannon Hill Park will also be closed between 06:00 and 15:00.
Bus routes into/out of town from Stirchley will be affected, including the 35, 45 and 47 routes. Transport for West Midlands have advised there will be messaging in place at each suspended stop to direct bus users to the alternative temporary stops.
For more information, visit the Great Run website.
Transport for West Midlands have advised of the following changes to bus routes.
From 2nd April 2023, Kevs Cars & Coaches will vary their timetable to improve reliability. The route is amended to terminate at Longbridge during the peaks due to roadworks affecting reliability.
From 16th April 2023, National Express West Midlands are replacing this service by a new NXWM service 20 between Bromsgrove and QE Hosptial.
Over the last few days there has been reports about a planned ‘Bournville Eco Village’ on the site of the woodlands on Sparrey Drive and behind houses on Oxford Street.
Although this site is not in Stirchley ward, it boarders it and backs on to houses in the ward. So, it felt appropriate to inform Stirchley residents of additional information to clear up some confusion. Most of the information from the article has come from the developers’ website bournvilleecovillage.co.uk and as yet there have been no plans submitted to the council for approval, meaning that this is still very much in the pre-planning stages.
Ian MacLeod, director of planning, transport & sustainability for Birmingham City Council, wrote that he discussed these proposals with the developer in early February. He has also clarified “The site is of local importance to nature conservation and is also subject to a Tree Protection Order. Development on the site would not be supported.”
The article from the Daily Mail quotes the councillor for Stirchley, Councillor Mary Locke, but the woodlands are in fact in the Bournbrook & Selly Park ward.
A petition to save the Bournbrook Historic Woodlands has been set up by local residents who are concerned about the ecological and environmental impact of removing trees and disruption an eco community centre would have on residents, especially with an existing community centre a few meters away.
Since the national interest in the development, Bournville Eco Village’s website has a new notice that reads, in part; “We have not yet decided on the best way to move forward, as we are waiting on various assessments focused on the ecological impact on the woods. We hope you can see that we care about the environment from the people that we have chosen to work with on this project.” They have also said they intend to hold a public meeting to discuss their ideas with local residents in a few months’ time.