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…

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…

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…

I have been very quiet on here and for that I can only apologise. The demise of the Great Barr Observer is a loss to the estate and therefore we are left with fewer news. You may have seen as well it appears Aldi may well get the planning permission next to Asda which will…

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 !!