So after a quiet period two interesting pieces of news has appeared. The first is that the land owners – Great Barr Lakes submitted a planning application and got it approved for works to the Lake. The full link to this application is HERE and this is work I mentioned quite a while back that had…

For a couple of weeks I have not seen any issue at the school and then today ? Well a bit of rain and all of a sudden as bad as ever. Look at this video here and count the cars ILLEGALLY parking. Not the car at the end of Old Hall Lane, parked as…

A few weeks ago I flagged up the review that was happening with Walsall primary care and the loss of services Pheasey would see through the Collingwood Centre. Well today I went in and noticed it is owned now by the The Practice Group – LINK It seems a few of the old Phoenix Care group…

A bit of news today. First is the good news is that speed camera’s are to return to Walsall Council and I really hope they can be used on the Queslett. – LINK This road is a continual hazard and only today, even at 5.15am I had to be careful as someone sped down from…

A week or so ago Barr Beacon school issues a strongly worded letter regarding the awful parking outside the school and in particular on Old Hall. The link is HERE. So last week coming back from work as I always do at about 15:50 it was much better but selfish car drivers always have a…

Just drove by the flats at the Terminus and 6 ambulances there including incident response units. Asked West Mids Ambulance service what is going on, will update when I have a reply. Pics are from my dash cam and not phone whilst driving !!

After the news I broke a couple of weeks ago I have been that over the past few months a lot of patients have been moving to the new surgery on the Queslett. Remember at the moment the Collingwood has only one FT doctor. Also in the review of Walsall GP’s a lot of them…

Valerie Vaz has jus altered me to the proposed changes to the surgery Due to the current contract being up the Walsall Commissioning Group are looking at alternatives. For Collingwood the proposal is reduce the opening hours of the Surgery. In basic terms they are looking at reducing late night and weekend opening. Over 5600…

Sorry to say this, last year Walsall CAB was under threat from Tory cuts but the Lab council then managed a stay of execution for a lot of it’s services. However the sad inevitable news of government central cuts finally hits home. Whilst I wished the Labour/LD run council could have done more, I do…

An unusual post but these are the food ratings for all the local places serving food. Generally a clean bill of health for all our outlets which is bloody good news. For example in Brum City Centre places like the Holiday Inn get a 0 rating and they are big multi national chains. Well done…