Solihull MBC will be carrying out carriage resurfacing work in this area. This requires the following temporary road closures affecting Elmdon Road (daytime) and Coleshill Heath Road Roundabout (overnight): Elmdon Road, Marston Green – Between Land Lane and Aylesford Drive from Tuesday 2 May until Thursday 4 May (8am – 5pm daily). Alternative routes signed […]

Catherine de Barnes Lane (North) will be closed from 9.30am to 3.30pm on Sunday May 14 to allow Skanska to remove the concrete block barriers currently in place along the edges of the bridge. These concrete barriers have been put in place to protect vehicles and pedestrians on the bridge while permanent steel vehicle restraint barriers […]

The new Solihull Road bridge was lifted into position October 2022 and is expected to open by the end of July 2023. Before this can be opened, National Highways need to demolish the existing Solihull Road bridge to enable them to build slip roads for the new junction. To complete this work safely, they need […]

From now until 30 September, 11.59pm, Solihull MBC will be placing a 30mph maximum speed limit on Catherine de Barnes Lane to allow carriage realignment work to take place. Details are as follows: Location: B4438 Catherine de Barnes Lane, Bickenhill. Speed limit applies to section from the junction with Clock Island to its junction with […]

On 27th March, a group of volunteers certified by the British Trust for Ornithology returned to Millennium Wood to carry out mist netting. 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. The group processed 19 birds including a […]

Solihull MBC will be carrying out tree-cutting work along St.Peters Lane, Bickenhill. This will require a temporary closure of the road, from its southern junction with Catherine de Barnes Lane to the T-junction on St.Peters Lane. Work will take place from 8am Monday 3 April and is due to complete by 4pm Tuesday 4 April. […]

Contractors bmJV, working the current M40/42 Interchange Scheme on behalf of National Highways, will require a series of weeknight closures (9pm-6am) between 16 March and 19 April. For full details of these closures, click the image on the right:

Following the success of its Here2Help events in December, the Solihull Financial Inclusion Partnership, led by Solihull Council, has organised two more free drop-in events this month in Fordbridge and Solihull town centre. Alongside the Here2Help web pages, advice booklets and helplines, the events are designed to help make sure that Solihull residents are aware […]

We are re-laying and extending the footpaths at the Burial Ground. Work is scheduled to begin on 13 March and should be completed (weather permitting) by 24 March. Visitors are asked to take care during works and observe the safety notices.