Notice of June Meeting. What is on your mind?

In this Newsletter;

  • Meeting Agenda
  • Joining information
  • Information about the latest Seven Capital planning application
  • Challenging Birmingham City Council

June’s Stirchley Forum Agenda

MONDAY 14TH JUNE 2021
7.30pm, online using Zoom

  1. Welcome
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of meeting 10th May 2021 (found here )
  4. Matters arising
  5. Police Update – subject to operational issues PCSO Paul Blackford will be present
  6. Planning issues, including latest Seven Capital application
  7. Birmingham City Council Challenge
  8. Networking – including; Pioneer Places
  9. Any other business
  10. Next meeting Monday 12th July 2021 

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Seven Capital has applied for planning permission for the Hazelwell Lane site

Reserved Matters Consent seeking permission for appearance, layout, scale and landscaping of a food retail store with associated parking, engineering, landscaping, drainage and infrastructure works following outline approval 2018/10370/PA  f
Details are available here

Challenge the Council

As part of the Pioneer Places initiative we have been invited to challenge Birmingham City Council. At a recent meeting Cllr Thompson (Cabinet member) emphasised how important it was that the Council continued to be challenged around its commitment to Localisation and for the council to learn from what hasn’t worked well and how it could have been done better. 
Councillor Thompson has just set up  a Localisation Star Chamber – where service areas will present what they have been doing that contributes to the Localisation  agenda as well being challenged as to what else could be done
 Pioneer Places have been asked to  contribute into the star chamber process  with the Challenge Case Studies.

Below is a pro forma form which we have been asked to complete so bring your ideas to the meeting (we can submit more than one form – the more the merrier).

Pioneer Places – BCC CHALLENGE Case Studies

The 4 key Measures of Success as outlined in the “Working Together in Birmingham’s Neighbourhoods” Strategic Document are: –

  • Services being different, better suited to the area, and more efficient
  • Officers working for “one council”, putting shared outcomes and local places first, not their service or directorate
  • Local councillors having more influence on services
  • Residents feeling they are more in control of their services and their local area

Minutes from May 2021 Stirchley Forum

Thank you to everyone who attended May’s Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum; including representatives from Taylor Wimpey, PCSO Paul Blackford and Councillor Mary Locke.

The minutes are available online here.

The next Stirchley Forum meeting is on Monday 14th June at 7.30pm on Zoom. A link will be sent to those who have signed up to receive notifications. If you would like to attend, please email stirchley.forumb30@gmail.com

Agenda for May 2021’s Stirchley Forum

MONDAY 10TH MAY 2021 – 7.30pm 
Online using Zoom

  • Update from Taylor Wimpey
  • Welcome
  • Apologies
  • Minutes of meeting 12th April 2021 (posted here)
  • Matters arising
  • Commonwealth Games Funding opportunity
    Suggestions include;
    • Working on Parks and greenways (including River Rea & canal)
    • Facilitating use of green areas by all ages
    • Promotion of wild flowers
    • Spring Clean Stirchley (perhaps with prizes for amount collected)
    • Events, for example a Community Games event, other events to foster community spirit
    • Engaging the community in discovering links with other Commonwealth countries, perhaps leading to a mural or artwork
    • A combination of some or all of the above
  • A Stirchley Festival 2021
    one event or a series of events? Date? Organisation
  • Police Update – subject to operational issues PCSO Paul Blackford will be present
  • Planning issues 
  • Networking – including;
  • Possible Stirchley involvement in RSA Research Project
    A series of events about how to improve wellbeing through residential actions to tackle housing challenges and reinserting residents’ voices into decision making processes about where they live.
  • Pioneer Places
  • Any other business

The next meeting of the Stirchley Neighbourhood Forum will be on Monday 14th June 2021

April’s meeting agenda

Below is the agenda for April’s meeting, taking place on Monday 12th April 2021 online. If you’d like to attend, please email us (stirchley.forumb30@gmail.com) to be sent the link.

Since the last meeting, the planning application in respect of 1256-1258 Pershore Road (on the corner of Twining Road) has been approved. Subject to IT issues the applicant has agreed to join the meeting.

  1. Welcome
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of meeting 8th March 2021 (posted here)
  4. Matters arising
  5. Police Update – subject to operational issues PCSO Paul
    Blackford will be present
  6. Planning issues
  7. Networking – including;
    1. Commonwealth Games funding opportunity
    2. Stirchley Community Festival (September)
    3. Pioneer Places
  8. Any other business

Next meeting Monday 10th May 2021

Agenda for March 2021 Forum meeting

There will be a short presentation by Baby Bank Birmingham, which is based in Stirchley, and works a lot like a food-bank providing essentials to families with children 0 – 5 in Birmingham. There will an opportunity to ask questions.

  1. Welcome
  2. Apologies
  3. Minutes of meeting 8th February 2021 (posted here)
  4. Matters arising
  5. Police Update – subject to operational and IT issues, PCSO Paul Blackford will be present
  6. Planning issues – a representative of Taylor Wimpey will be present to talk about their amended proposals
  7. Opening up from lock down
  8. Networking – including; Pioneer Places, High Street Fund and Stirchley Together
  9. Any other business

Next meeting Monday 12th April 2021