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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Roadshow launched to engage public in town plans
A roadshow of events has been launched to help people engage with a public consultation about a town's future development. The "issues and options" consultation began on 22 May and will run until 3 July, starting the process to make Redditch's Local Plan, which will guide development in the town up to 2043. Redditch Borough Council said planners would be present at each event to answer questions and help locals understand the issues under consultation. Its leader, councillor Sharon Harvey, said it was important for people living there to decide what the next phase of development would look like. "We need to know what people really think about the issues under consultation, so we want this process to be as open and accessible as possible. "That's why we're not just providing a new easy-to-use online platform, but also more than fifty hours of daytime, evening, and weekend support across nine locations where the people doing the work will be there to answer your questions." Friday 6 June - Kingfisher Shopping Centre, 0900 to 1600 BST Saturday 7 June - Redditch Market, 0900 to 1500 Tuesday 10 June - Feckenham Village Hall, 1000 to 1800 Wednesday 11 June - Oakenshaw Community Centre, 1500 to 2000 Thursday 12 June - Redditch Market, 0900 to 1500 Saturday 14 June - Green Fair at Arrow Country Park, 1100 to 1900 Monday 16 June - Windmill Centre in Crabbs Cross, 0900 to 1445 Wednesday 18 June - Winyates Community Centre, 1600 to 2000 Thursday 19 June - Woodrow Meeting Rooms, 1600 to 2000 Saturday 21 June - Morton Stanley Cafe, 1000 to 1500 Reference copies of the consultation document would be available at the events, the authority said. Issues include housing, economy, infrastructure, natural environment and climate change. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. Cemetery plans aim to extend town burial provision Customers urge Post Office not to close branch Redditch Borough Council
BBC News
27-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Roadshow to help people get involved in Redditch town plans
A roadshow of events has been launched to help people engage with a public consultation about a town's future "issues and options" consultation began on 22 May and will run until 3 July, starting the process to make Redditch's Local Plan, which will guide development in the town up to Borough Council said planners would be present at each event to answer questions and help locals understand the issues under leader, councillor Sharon Harvey, said it was important for people living there to decide what the next phase of development would look like. "We need to know what people really think about the issues under consultation, so we want this process to be as open and accessible as possible. "That's why we're not just providing a new easy-to-use online platform, but also more than fifty hours of daytime, evening, and weekend support across nine locations where the people doing the work will be there to answer your questions." Where will the events be? Friday 6 June - Kingfisher Shopping Centre, 0900 to 1600 BSTSaturday 7 June - Redditch Market, 0900 to 1500Tuesday 10 June - Feckenham Village Hall, 1000 to 1800Wednesday 11 June - Oakenshaw Community Centre, 1500 to 2000Thursday 12 June - Redditch Market, 0900 to 1500Saturday 14 June - Green Fair at Arrow Country Park, 1100 to 1900Monday 16 June - Windmill Centre in Crabbs Cross, 0900 to 1445Wednesday 18 June - Winyates Community Centre, 1600 to 2000Thursday 19 June - Woodrow Meeting Rooms, 1600 to 2000Saturday 21 June - Morton Stanley Cafe, 1000 to 1500Reference copies of the consultation document would be available at the events, the authority include housing, economy, infrastructure, natural environment and climate change. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
14-04-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Redditch council leader suspended by Labour and steps down
The Labour leader of Redditch Borough Council has resigned after being suspended by his Joe Baker, who had led the council for 11 months, stepped down on Friday, citing personal reasons.A West Midlands Labour party spokesperson confirmed he had been suspended, but would not comment further on the matter. Baker is now sitting as an independent Labour councillor, Sharon Harvey, will serve as interim council leader until Redditch's annual council meeting on 19 May. "As you can appreciate, I have no comments at this time," Baker said, after being contacted by the BBC about his elected in 2012, he is currently serving his fourth term as a borough became leader of the council in May last year, after Labour took control of Redditch in the local his suspension by Labour – which is also understood to have taken place on Friday - he is now sitting as an independent councillor for Batchley and Brockhill party would not comment on how long the suspension would an email to all councillors on Friday, the council confirmed Baker had resigned his position "due to personal circumstances". But it referred all queries to Redditch Labour Party."In the interim Sharon Harvey will be stepping into the role, as per the constitution, until a new leader is elected at the Annual Council Meeting," the email stated. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X, and Instagram.
BBC News
26-03-2025
- General
- BBC News
Redditch residents fight against National Grid mast plans
Hundreds of residents are campaigning against plans for a 98ft (30m) mast outside their homes, arguing it will destroy their National Grid want to install a communications tower at one of their substations near Headless Cross, Redditch, in the middle of a residential than 500 people have signed a petition calling for it to be scrapped and said the area's wildlife would be negatively impacted.A spokesperson for the National Grid said while the proposal "has been developed to minimise the visual and ecological impact", they were open to feedback. Yvonne and Andre Jovanovic have lived on the estate for 40 years and said they never would have imagined something "so industrial" in a residential area."It's going to affect people sitting out in their garden in the summer because the mast is so close to their garden fences. "It's going to affect them mentally," Ms Jovanovic Jovanovic said he was prepared to do what it takes to protect his area."I've got the chain and padlock ready, but I'd rather not. "I felt sheer shock and amazement that they could entertain putting something so industrial in a residential area surrounded by houses."The scale of objections has resulted in Redditch Borough Council's planning committee having to vote on the decision at a date yet to be fixed. Helen Elvins, whose window will be about 80m from the mast, described the plans as "unfair"."I just feel a bit betrayed and let down; it's frustrating because I've lived here my whole life."This isn't right in the middle of a housing estate."You'll look out into the garden and see your flower beds, but all of a sudden, there will be a massive mast at the end of your garden."Concerned residents will meet with National Grid on Wednesday at 19:30 GMT at The Bridge Church Community Hall, in Evesham Road, to discuss the Grid said: "We are always committed to listening to public feedback as we seek to enhance the safety and security of electricity in the region." Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
13-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Abbey Cemetery plans aim to extend Redditch's burial provision
Plans to repurpose part of a cemetery will extend burial provision in a town by 10 years, a council has Redditch Borough Council said its executive committee had decided more burials would be carried out on an open part of the Abbey Cemetery, next to Redditch said new options for longer-term burial provision in the borough would also be Conservative group leader councillor Matt Dormer said the plans were "utterly insensitive", as the site had been used for people to scatter the ashes of loved ones for many years. "Nobody's comfortable with this," he told the added people who had scattered ashes on the land believed it was council said it acknowledged the "seriousness and sensitivity" of the issue."There will be families who, over the years, have used some of that open space at the Abbey Cemetery to scatter loved ones' ashes," said councillor Sharon Harvey, the authority's portfolio holder for environmental asked anyone directly affected by the change to "come and talk to us"."We want to work with you to ensure that your needs are met, including considering new memorial features to honour those loved ones," she said. Labour councillors, who took control of the authority in May last year, cancelled a previous plan for a new cemetery on Ipsley Church Lane put forward by Conservatives when they were in said "absolutely everything" had been done, including soil testing, to prepare the site to be the next cemetery."It's a slight gradient so its not like it's a flat surface that can be used for recreational activities - it is used for dog walking, it is used for runners, that can all remain," Dormer the authority's leader, councillor Joe Baker, said many residents had opposed those plans, and other options would now be considered in the committee also agreed to commission a review of the potential for another site off Battens Drive to be used. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
