If you’ve ever complained about the amount of litter around Kings Heath, now’s your chance to do something about it. Your help is needed as part of the Great British Spring Clean.
The idea – backed by Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) and Birmingham City Council – is for neighbours, friends or local community groups to get together and to do a Spring Clean in their neighbourhood.
It’s all happening over the weekend of 4 and 5 March 2017.
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A few places are available at the All Saints Church Elders Lunch Club. The club runs every Wednesday as a social event for older people in Kings Heath. They do not need to be members of the church in order to be part of the Club’s lunches.
Members arrive at the All Saints Church Community Centre at 2 Vicarage Road, Kings Heath, B14 7RA every Wednesday at 12 noon. The lunch lasts for an hour with soup, sandwiches, desserts, tea and coffee available at very reasonable prices.
The emphasis is on providing a welcoming and friendly place for older residents to enjoy a sociable lunch and make new friends.
If you or an older relative would like to join the lunch club, call Liz Turner on 0121 604 6086. If you have difficulties getting there under your own steam, help will be provided to sign up with the Ring and Ride community bus service.
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Birmingham City Council (BCC) has outlined plans for the future of Birmingham’s community libraries. The plan is now out for consultation and everybody has the chance to comment on it.
The key point is that all the city’s libraries have been classified in one of four tiers. Kings Heath library is in Tier 1.
The good news is that it is expected to remain open. It will also be open for the same number of hours each week as now.
Overall the proposals mean Kings Heath library will:
More details about the consultation are available at the following links:
If you want to have a say in the consultation, you have until 27 January 2017 to make your views known. You can do it in two ways:
If you have any interest in Kings Heath library it is important that you are part of this consultation. Please fill in the form and send it to BCC.
Photo credit: Kings Heath library by Tony Hisgett (CC BY 2.0)
Birmingham City Council (BCC) has launched a Local Innovation Fund (LIF). It will make £48,000 available to each electoral ward in the city. The money is intended to fund projects ‘that focus on partnership, collaboration, active citizenship and doing things differently’.
The Moseley and Kings Heath Community Partnership is holding a meeting at 7pm on Tuesday 13 December 2016 to discuss the fund and the ways in which it might be applied in Moseley and Kings Heath.
If you have thoughts on how £48,000 could be used to the benefit of local residents, please come to the meeting.
Date: Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Moseley Exchange, 149-153 Alcester Road, B13 8JP
You can find more information about the fund on Birmingham City Council’s website.
Kings Heath High Street has been identified as one of the most polluted roads in Birmingham. That and the dangerous nature of the road has led Birmingham City Council (BCC) to search for ways to improve matters for residents.
The council is teaming up with ASDA for a trial of new delivery arrangements. During the trial, deliveries to the ASDA store in Kings Heath will be re-scheduled to take place outside peak traffic times. This will reduce the number of lorries heading along the High Street.
The store’s current delivery hours are 07:30 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday, and 09:00 to 16:00 on Sundays, bank holidays and public holidays.
The proposed changes are 06:00 to 19:00 Monday to Saturday, and 08:00 to 18:00 on Sundays and bank holidays.
BCC and ASDA want to know what local people think of the idea. Representatives of both will be at the store on:
Anybody with an interest in this project can go to the store to discuss it at these times. No appointment is necessary.
More information can be obtained from:
Localised flooding can, sometimes, be caused by blocked storm drains, known as gullies. These are found at the edges of the city’s roads. We’re approaching the time of year when these are even more likely to be blocked because fallen leaves can build up across the gratings over gullies.
Now Birmingham City Council has introduced an online form so that local people can report blocked gullies. BCC wants reports to include ‘An accurate location (including landmarks, nearby house numbers or road junctions)’ as well as ‘A detailed description of the problem (e.g. blocked gully or missing grate)’.
If you want to report a blocked or damaged gully, visit the reporting form.
Obviously there is no guarantee that reporting a blocked gully will result in it being cleared. Indeed, the road layout in some places makes it almost impossible for surface water to drain away. If you report a flooding problem and it doesn’t get cleared, then the next step is to report it to your local councillors along with the reference number.
Kings Heath Neighbourhoods Forum 