Your local councillors, at the end of last summer, conducted an extensive survey of every household in Stirchley to ask their views on whether both TESCO and ASDA should be allowed to come to Stirchley.

Over 2,000 households were invited to reply.

We had over 1,000 responses back from Stirchley residents  and just over 60% thought that these two supermarkets should both be allowed to come to Stirchley. Amongst the views expressed were; 

• They would help to regenerate Stirchley,
• They would encourage competition and drive down prices,
• They would bring much needed jobs to Stirchley,
• The CO-OP has had a monopoly for too long and is expensive,
• We would need to sort out the traffic before they came,
• They would bring new retail businesses back to Stirchley,
• They would supply much needed car parking.

Bournville's two major parks are about to benefit from over  £250,000 as part of an extensive investment programme.

The monies secured by the three Bournville councillors from a variety of sources will be spent over the next two months.

As part of our negotiations with ASDA and TESCO your local Councillors, with the support of the city council, are proposing the setting up of the Stirchley Village Regeneration Board.

Its board will comprise your 3 local elected councillors, local residents and traders.

The purpose of the Stirchley Village Regeneration Board will be to oversee and manage the revival of the Stirchley High Street as a shopping centre over the next 10 years.

Although information is sketchy it appears that Birmingham City University wants to close the Bournville campus and to relocate the arts and design courses. Instead the building will be used to run courses for foreign students preparing for other university courses.

The two buildings affected would be Ruskin Hall on Linden Road which has always been the original School of Arts and the Maple Road building which at one time was used to educate Cadbury employees.

These colleges were built by George Cadbury who was passionately committed to the education of his workforce and the residents of Bournville.

Bournville’s 3 local councillors were pleased to see that the City Council’s Planning Committee has refused a planning application by Vodafone to erect a 25 foot mobile phone mast on Raddlebarn Road just outside the old Selly Oak Hospital site.

Councillors argued that the site was on a busy thoroughfare for many people including school children and was close to sporting facilities. We also argued that once the Selly Oak Hospital site is redeveloped the mast could be a huge eyesore and a disincentive to redevelopment.

Councillor Dawkins has long argued that these 25 foot high structures are completely inappropriate for residential areas. ‘The mobile phone companies make huge profits and it is up to them to develop solutions which do not require such tall inappropriate structures scarring our communities.’

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