Aldi REJECTED

Great news that Aldi has been rejected planning permission for their plans at the Old Horns. This from fiends at Birmingham LIVE – LINK  The planning inspector has rejected it based not he damage to the trees on site. However I am concerned they passed it on the traffic and pollution grounds. Stand there on…

Police Helicopter in Pheasey

For the last 30 mins we have all heard a helicopter over Pheasey and I went out to look and saw this. What appears to be armed police had pulled over a car. Please note that this is from my dash cam.   EDIT 08/05/18 19:00 Birmingham Live printed this story about the incident and…

Local Election results

So the voting is over and the count complete and earlier this morning Pheasey was declared as follows So a tory hold. The analysis here is quite simple, Lab vote remained static biut Tories gained from the UKIP collapse and basically saw a straight swap over. Across Walsall we saw tory gains based on the…

Been a while but movement on Great Barr Hall ??

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…

Speed, Shop closed? & Travellers

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…

Incident at the flats ?

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 !!