Welcome to
Birchfield Residents Action Group
drop by our Community room at 311a Wellington Road
click on the coloured areas to find out more
We cover the following neighbourhoods of the Birchfield district of the East Handsworth and Lozells ward.
Wellington Road,Birchfield Road,Westminster Road, Stamford Road, The roads and towers on the Birchfield Estate. Calthorpe, Turville, Haughton, Havelock, Livingstone,Leslie,Willmore Roads, Apollo Way,Parts of Churchill, Hutton, Grosvenor and Putney Roads. Old Mill Close, Westminster Cresent. we are now included in the New Neighbourhood Management Area. LATEST on THREE TOWER BLOCKS Yvonne Wager, our new Neighbourhood Manager announced at the Neighbourhood Police meeting that these towers will be demolished. We hope that the developers will consider the issues of adequate PARKING and PLAY PROVISION when they draw up their plans for Family Housing. Your are invited to a walk about with her Thursday 18th June at 7.15pm. Meet at Holy Trinity School entrance, Haverlock Road. This will be to look at Problems that need sorting in the area, like PLAY PROVISION, PARKING, DUMPING, etc. The Stirrer - news that matters, campaigns that count - News that matters, campaigns that count for Birmingham, the Black country and beyond. OurOurO Our Local ward has just lost another Labour councillor,Kim Bron, who should be next ? Hussain ex-Lord Mayor Mahmood Hussain,or absent councillor Don Brown ? Now the "Family" has a new member, Hendrica Quinnen,let's hope she will deliver in place of absent councillor Brown. We note the pathetic turnout 34% turnout from our 18K potential electors. Seems like we dont care for democracy here and are just content to let the same old stooges back into power. The conservative vote went up from 284 to 1622, signs of a protest vote here? with the labour group going up by 329 as they scrabble to hang on to power,and the lib-dems up by 275. Next Neighbourhood Police meeting at Holy Trinity School,Haverlock Road, 7pm Thursday July 2nd, We wonder why there has been little action in response to our email to the Police sent on the 9th April 2009 13 CRICKET SQUARES-UNLUCKY FOR SOME see how the Authorities are causing community discontent at PERRY HALL Park a 1000+ signature petition was presented to the Perry Barr ward committee meeting on the 11th May with the promise of a further meeting with park officials. MAY 2009 Still no news from council about Birchfield Estate or the proposed Play area on Wellington Road Ward Committee meeting 16th July 2008 7.30pm, where one agenda item should be about Community Facilities ( eg promised play areas in Westminster Road area), at St Silas Church Centre, Lozells Road. This has been an outstanding item since 2006, we need to bring our young people to lobby councillors and get the promised play site on Wellington Road ready for the summer break. GOOD NEWS a site meeting was held with the Ward Support officer on the 18th July. This is the start of "community involvement to get the site cleared for temporary community use" ! Its now September and there has been no further news on the proposal.! But wait its October now and a meeting is being held on the 3rd......................... 14th July at Holy Trinity School, 6-8pm meet with Council officials to hear about plans for the Birchfield Road Towers and Houses regeneration. This is long overdue as we first heard about this 2 years ago.There seems to a decision to demolish the towers after all and build more houses for families. Community Dialogue ROADSHOW 2009 Community Dialogue is all about capturing YOUR voices, YOUR views and YOUR vision. THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED AS FAR AS WE KNOW it is now 12th May.................................... NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICE TEAM MONTHLY MEETING
fficial 11th June 2009
Thursday 7th May 2009
Holy Trinity School,Haverlock Road,full community meeting 7pm to 8pm.
NEIGHBOURHHOOD FORUM PUBLIC MEETING 14th January 2009 7pm
at Mayfield School, Heathfield Road entrance
THORNHILL ROAD POLICE STATION OPEN DAY "we want more Special Constables"- see video file
Neighbourhhod Police Team promise New Bin we are still waiting,........... can we have a communtiy meeting more regularly please?
The last bi-monthly Neighbourhood policing meeting that we were made aware of was back in July. However, the police tell us that there was a meeting in September which Birchfield Residents did not know about. According to the Home Office Policing Pledge,Neighbourhood Policing teams should hold " meetings at least monthly". No wonder people people make this sort of comment in the Inspection report for Neighbourhood Policing, in the west Midlands, page 19...
Examples of comments made by members of the public during the survey include: o "This incident has been going on for a few months now and I feel the police are doing nothing about it at all…and someone is going to get hurt if the police keep ignoring this problem"; and "Waste of time and money making the phone call, and all of my neighbours feel the same, because the police don’t do anything" POST OFFICE CLOSURES OFFICIAL- CHURCH VALE POST OFFICE WILL CLOSE DESPITE GOVERNMENTS CRITERIA:- "99% of the total population in deprived urban[1]areas across the UK to be within 1 mile of their nearest Post Office® branch."
SEPTEMBER 2008 report Season of Leaf and Litter Fall and the Overflowing Skip
Casual passers by still continue to drop their unwanted BIG JOHN and PIZZA food packaging as they pass the fence by the bus stop.Perhaps we could have a visit one evening from the City Centre Litter Wardens who claim to have issued hundreds of FIXED PENALTY NOTICES, they would be able to give out many tickets. The fence by the bus stop has been made into a comfortable seat for the bus stop regulars, and needs refixing, there are seats in the bus shelter. Last night, 19th September a large part of the bus shelter was ripped off and left laying on the ground.
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YESOUR LATEST CAMPAIGN is it success at last ?NO
The untidy Verge opposite St Teresa's Church on Wellington Road
PLAYSCHEMES in our areaJULY/ AUGUST EVENTS
AGM of Handsworth Central Neighbourhood Forum
22 July 7pm at Mayfield School,Heathfield Road.Click her to see results of election
"just a wee bit like the local elections"
MOBILE PHONE MAST ISSUES
Jasper Carrot joins protesters at a local multimast site-
http://videos.next-up.org/ItvLocal/ProtestsAgainstPhoneMastsAndCancersUk/13082008.html
Click the link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?
Ward Committee meeting
16th July 7.30pm, where one agenda item should be about Community Facilities ( eg promised play areas in Westminster Road area), at St Silas Church Centre, Lozells Road. This has been an outstanding item since 2006, we need to bring our young people to lobby councillors and get the promised play site on Wellington Road ready for the summer break. GOOD NEWS a site meeting was held with the Ward Support officer on the 18th July. This is the start of "community involvement to get the site cleared for temporary community use" ! Its now September and there has been no further news on the proposal.! But wait its October now and a meeting is being held on the 3rd.........................
14th July at Holy Trinity School, 6-8pm meet with Council officials to hear about plans for the Birchfield Road Towers and Houses regeneration. This is long overdue as we first heard about this 2 years ago.There seems to a decision to demolish the towers after all and build more houses for families.
Thursday 10th July Birchfield Neighbourhood Police Team meet with us at Holy Trinity School, Haverlock Road, 7pm
What a racket-Perry Barr Speedway spoils the Sunday evening Peace
Club announces NOISE TRIALS for Wednesdays
PERRY BARR COUNCILLORS ARE ON THE BALL CHECKING UP
Mobile Phone Masts Problems- special issue of Birchfield Bugle
We will continue to monitor any reoccurrence.
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Perry BARR Councillors Blog, can we have one too ! They are telling us news of how our bins should be emptied!
Neighbourhood Conference or not ?
LOZELLS 05 Disturbances Report
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updated June 2009
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