A busy week ahead, starting today with the meeting of the West Midlands Police and Crime Panel (which I am Vice Chair). Today we are looking at the budget the commisioner wishes to set and how the force is prepared for major incidents. Agenda here: http://westmidlandspcp.co.uk/meeting-1-february-2016-2pm/ Tomorrow is Solihull Full Council. On the agenda is a … More THE WEEK AHEAD
Many residents and shoppers will have noticed the barriers on Notcutts end of Tesco’s car park. These, together will bollards and some speed bumps are measures undertaken by Tesco’s to address the great problems caused by the gathering of boy racers and car enthusiast in recent years. It is a shame we have had to … More SUCCESS TACKLING BOY RACERS IN SOLIHULL
Residents who use this road hardly need to be reminded by these photographs but there are obviously issues here. On Monday morning I joined Matt Gardner, SMBC Neighbourhood Officer and Highway Inspector, when he undertook his latest inspection. I also asked along Angela Hutchinson who had raised this stretch of road on this forum (it … More RUMBUSH LANE
Some excellent news to report: Weather permitting, work will start on 23 November to install two manual barriers at the top end of the car park (commonly known as the Notcutts part). The barriers will be managed by Tesco staff and lowered during the evening, when Notcutts is closed. There will also be some additional … More BOY RACERS UPDATE
Following on from the event held on August bank Holiday Sunday things have moved on apace. I was unaware until a day or so afterwards that BBC Midlands ‘Inside Out’ team were actually on site filming the gathering. They confirmed as many as 1,000 young people were in attendance with between 500 and 700 vehicles. … More TESCO CAR PARK – RACERS/CAR ENTHUSIASTS MEETS UP-DATE
Thankfully I feel the weather may have put paid to a larger turn out but there were several hundred young people congregated on Tesco’s car park yesterday evening, from about 7.30pm. Those attending said there were about 2,000 but I thought it more like 1,000. However, the noise and associated problems caused annoyance to local … More STREET RACERS MEET-UP – TESCO’S
On Tuesday 14 July I presented to Solihull Council the petition, then signed by 277 people, seeking action by the Council, Police and Tesco’s/Notcutts to stop the congregation of vehicles which leads to anti-social behaviour (the image shows myself and ward action team member and Monkspath resident, Alex Insley, with the petition on the car … More Boy Racers – another update
Residents near to the Tescos and Notcutts car park have endured a lot of hassle from cars and motor bikes using the car park at weekends for a meeting place and for some of their owners to use the Stratford Road and car park as some sort of race track. This last Bank Holiday weekend … More Street Racers – Stratford Road, Monkspath
Following the formal consultation into the proposals for parking restrictions in Shelly Lane and Hay Lane, officers have collated responses and have reported to ward councillors as shown in the table below: Representation Officer Response General A letter was received from Monkspath School which detailed their recent plan to install an additional access onto Shelly … More SHELLY CRESCENT/HAY LANE – parking restrictions.
Please find posted the latest Neighbourhood Newsletter covering the Rural section of Solihull. I post this primarily for Blythe ward but all other rural wards are included in the newsletter: Newsletter Nov 2014 It is worth reading because it has information on E.coli found by the food safety teams on some Trendy Food Platters. There is … More NEIGHBOURHOOD NEWSLETTER – November 2014
Ken Hawkins 