The Parish Councillors would like to express their appreciation to everyone who attended the Remembrance Day Service at the Garden of Memory in Marston Green. They also want to thank everyone who contributed, including the Uniformed Organisations, the members of both St. Leonards Church and the Baptist Free Church, the schools, the Road Marshals, West […]

At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them. In Flanders Fields By John McCrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row,     That mark our place; and in the sky     The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. […]

On November 10, the NEC announced its Masterplan for the development of an urban village on 27 hectares of brownfield land around the National Exhibition Centre that is currently surplus or used for parking.  The proposed development includes 5,000 homes, a primary school, a new hotel, cafes, restaurants and offices.  The NEC Group state that the […]

Earlier this year, a group of volunteers certified by the British Trust for Ornithology requested permission from the Parish Council to carry out mist netting at Millennium Wood. Mist netting is an important tool for monitoring species diversity, relative abundance and population size and is harmless to birds when carried out by trained professionals. On 3rd […]

On the morning of Sunday 14 November (Remembrance Sunday), there will be a number of temporary road closures to allow the annual Remembrance Sunday parade to take place. Residents living close to the affected areas will receive the following letter notifying them of the closures:

From Monday 20 December 2021 to Wednesday 22 December 2021, Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV), working in partnership with HS2 Ltd will be carrying out trial hole excavations in the verge of Coleshill Heath Road to identify existing utility services. To carry out these works safely, BBV will install temporary traffic lights on the Coleshill Heath […]

Chair of the Parish Council, Cllr Clive Hill and fellow councillors recently attended a tree planting and time capsule burial event at Marston Green Infant Academy.  The tree and time capsule were donated by the Parish Council to mark the 50th birthday of the Infant Academy.

Ahead of future works to the network that will be carried out by HS2, National Highways and their contractor Kier, need to do some preparatory works on the M42 and M6. Temporary overnight (22.00 – 06.00) work is being carried out on the M6 near Junction (J) 4, Coleshill Interchange, for two weeks in late […]

Residents meeting takes place on 22 November at Fordbridge Town Council building on Nineacres Drive from 12pm until 1pm.

From 8pm on Friday 15 October to 5am on Monday 18 October, there will be temporary, weekend road closures around parts of Northway Island and along short sections of the B4438 southbound and A452 northbound.A signed diversion route will be in place for road users during the weekend road closure.