Hope Coppice became Solihull’s 17th Green Flag Park recently and is a gem of a place to visit. Access is quite easy via highway or public footpath (see map).
It is a ‘must visit’ place with children during the school holidays. Plenty for them to get up to. Why not take a picnic?
Situated on land between Dickens Heath and Shirley, Hope Coppice is a place for people to remember and reflect on the pandemic. It is part of a borough-wide Council project to provide areas of remembrance for the families, friends and local communities affected by COVID.
As Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure, I thank the wonderful Friends of Hope Coppice and officers from the councils Environment Department for all their work in making the space and green flag award happen – ‘we have created partnerships that support local wildlife and ensure our parks are beautiful places for our residents and visitors to relax, exercise and enjoy the natural environment’.
Above photographs show myself with fellow Blythe ward Cllr, Keith Green
Ken Hawkins 
Hope Coppice is truly an oasis,and like an oasis it gives life this natural tiny reservation in the middle of so much urban development is a true haven. My wife and I have enjoyed the calm and peacefulness of this place over the years it would be hard to imagine life without it quite frankly, we’ve loved walking with our dogs over these fields for so many years but now we are both retired and have (right sized ) moved to a retirement accommodation we are still within reach of accessing all what this place offers. We love walking and listening to the bird song the odd glimpse of a buzzard, chiff chaffs, robins that pop out of the hedgerows as if to greet you. At various times we’ve been blessed to catch a fox scurrying across the path before us even on some occasions we’ve seen muntjac deer. Thank heaven for this gift and long may it continue.
I live in Dickens Heath and have enjoyed walking my dog for the past 12 years in Hope Coppice and the surrounding fields. However access to the fields has been made more difficult as a gate that was used to climb in and out of part of the land has been replaced and a fence that led into the pylon field has been reinforced to stop access. My elderly dog and I now have to walk all the way around to the Bills Lane kissing gate in order to get access. It feels like those of us from Dickens Heath are being denied access to a much loved community space. Please could we have a pedestrian gate installed somewhere along the bridle path?
Hi Jenny, I have just noticed this comment and will have a look at what can be done.