The building works have started and the opening date is still on track for June 2023 with new theatres coming next year. Full details can be found in a report to Solihull Council Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee this week: https://eservices.solihull.gov.uk/mgInternet/documents/s107672/Communications%20and%20engagement%20update%20report_Solihull%20elective%20hub%20six%20theatres%20site%20configuration%20an.pdf
Essentially this will apply to all elections. From 4 May 2023, people who wish to vote in person (including those acting as a proxy), will be required to produce an accepted form of photographic ID to prove their identity before they will be issued with a ballot paper. Photo identification includes; Passport, Driving Licnece, Blue … More Voter ID – what you need to know
Press release from SMBC today: A new community funding scheme has been launched as part of Solihull Council’s environmental contract with Veolia and £10,000 is available to the borough’s local community groups and clubs. The Community Improvement Fund is aimed at groups who are looking to improve local areas. Constituted groups and clubs in Solihull … More Calling all community groups in Solihull – Solihull Council’s partner Veolia has £10k for local improvements
Press release from SMBC this morning. As part of its commitment to improving road safety, Solihull Council has installed new average speed enforcement cameras on the A34 Stratford Road in Shirley. Positioned in the 40mph section of the Stratford Road, between the B4102 Marshall Lake Road and the M42 Motorway junctions, the cameras will monitor … More Stratford Road gets new average speed cameras.
This is situated within the libary at Dickens Heath and is a concept supported by the by the West Midlands Combined Authority and SMBC. More information can be found by visiting: https://www.yourworkhub.co.uk There are two Open Days this week; Thursday 5th and Friday 6th January. If this might meet your needs why not pop down … More DICKENS HEATH – WORK HUB:
Looking for some great magazines to help with your resolutions to get fit and eat healthy? Just by having a Solihull Library card we can have access to hundreds of titles (I have posted screenshots of some). No Library card? Just drop into any of our libraries to enrol and also see what other services … More FREE E MAGAZINES FROM SOLIHULL LIBRARIES
A9 BUS SERVICE – Confirmation: This really good news and confirmation of the great work undertaken by TfWM in providing a new service through the borough. It will be an hourly service from BVP to Solihull Town-centre, then onto Olton, Yardley and Kingshurst. The route goes along Cheswick Way and Monkspath Hall Road, thereby providing … More
Being the victim of crime is not nice and I know what its like to have your house burgled; ironic as I was at Crown Court on the morning of the break-in, giving evidence (as a police officer). I was though content to be able to arrest the shite a few weeks later when catching … More CRIME PREVENTION – WMP Handbook
A report before next week’s Joint Scrutiny Board meeting, Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Board – includes an Update on access to Primary Care and the Reprovision of Services at Solihull Hospital . This is good news and confirms the reinstatement of a Minor Injuries Unit at Solihull Hospital. Below are some of the … More SOLIHULL MIU Update:
A report before the joint Birmingham and Solihull Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee next week mentions some promising news about the reprovision of a Minor Injuries Unit (MIU) and Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at Solihull Hospital. The trust accepts the strength of feeling in Solihull regarding the urgent care services that are currently available to … More University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) commit to reprovision of the MIU and UTC at Solihull Hospital.
Ken Hawkins 