2026 Solihull Parent Carer Voice Survey – SEND Services in Solihull

8 June 2026

Each year Solihull Parent Carer Voice carries out this survey to compare results and identify changes or improvements in SEND services within Solihull. The feedback collected plays an important role in shaping future services, influencing change and delivering real life feedback from the parent carers and young people of Solihull. The results from both surveys … More 2026 Solihull Parent Carer Voice Survey – SEND Services in Solihull

Environment and Infrastructure Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Key Priorities for 2026-27

29 May 2026

Following our annual council earlier this week, scrutiny boards meet next week and one of the first is one that scrutinises my portfolio – the Stronger Communities and Neighbourhood Services Scrutiny Board At the first meeting of the year cabinet portfolio holders present a report outlining their priorities for the coming municipal year. The report … More Environment and Infrastructure Cabinet Portfolio Holder – Key Priorities for 2026-27

Reports to Solihull Cabinet

29 May 2026

Two important issues came before yesterday evenings cabinet meting. The first one was the Crisis Support and Housing Payment Policy. The introduction to the reports reads ‘ The Crisis and Resilience Fund (CRF) is a national programme for local authorities inEngland designed to provide a strengthened local welfare safety net by supportinglow-income households who experience … More Reports to Solihull Cabinet

New weekly food waste collection coming to Solihull.

27 May 2026

(An early information post, with dates for upcoming roadshows to explain the changes in the image below). Residents in Solihull will benefit from a new weekly food waste recycling collection this autumn, helping to turn their waste into renewable energy and fertiliser for local farms. Solihull Council will begin the service for most households from … More New weekly food waste collection coming to Solihull.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS

23 May 2026

Two weeks late posting this but I am very pleased to have been re-elected to serve in (the newly named) St Alphege with Monkspath and Hillfield ward. This was an ‘all up’ election with the first three being elected for between one and four years.

THE MUDDY FOX COMES TO SOLIHULL TOWN CENTRE

16 March 2026

Another piece of excellent news for the town centre is a ‘soon to be’ planning application by ‘Heartwood Collection’ to transform the former Missoula Luna to become ‘The Muddy Fox’ on the High Street, a contemporary ‘pub with rooms’ in the listed building. Solihull Council has announced it has entered an agreement with the award-winning Heartwood … More THE MUDDY FOX COMES TO SOLIHULL TOWN CENTRE

Solihull Education Sufficiency Strategy

19 February 2026

The councils Education Sufficiency Strategy (2025-2028) is to be adopted at the Children and Education Decision Session next week. The full report and appendices can be reached via this link: https://democracy.solihull.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx… The strategy is a rolling one, updated regularly, to take into account the numbers of pupils in our schools and how planning for school … More Solihull Education Sufficiency Strategy