Have you seen the array of tulips around the village? With different colours and different styles, they add something special to our area. All thanks to the hard work of the Village in Bloom volunteers back in November. The bulbs were planted all the way through the village, from St Mary’s Churchyard up to the Triabout on the border of Birmingham and Solihull. You can also see them in Mallard Close Orchard, at the library, in tree planters along the main road and on the corner of Woodcock Lane.
Here are a few photos we have taken, but if you have some nice ones you would like to share then, please email them to AGNForum@hotmail.co.uk and we will add the best ones to our gallery.
If you would like to come to help Village in Bloom, they meet every Sunday at 10am. You don’t have to be a gardener to help improve our area! You can email Fran Lee to join the mailing list.
The ward’s Councillors sit on the forum. Ward Forum meetings focus on the issues, priorities and decisions important to people in their local area. They are one way you can get involved in the decisions that affect your neighbourhood.
This month they will be discussing:
Environment & Transport Neighbourhood Fund, where the local Highway Engineer will be talking about the Highway improvements that have been suggested in the ward and have to be approved at the Ward Forum Meeting
West Midlands Police have been invited to give an update of the ward
Any questions or queries that residents have will also be discussed. Below is the agenda. Everyone from the local area is welcome and your say can actually have an impact on our area.
Come and find out more about what is happening in the area, help to shape what will happen, and find out how to get more involved in your Neighbourhood Forum. If you can’t be there, join us on Zoom the link to the live meeting will be HERE
Come along and help at this community event, even if you can only spare half an hour. Staff from our NatWest Bank will be coming along to help too. If you have equipment bring it along otherwise there will be some spare to borrow. The plan is to go off the beaten track a little and clean up some of the side roads too.
Acocks Greener is a local community group in Tyseley & Hay Mills and Acocks Green, their aim is to help us become a greener community and to cope with climate change. Some 230 homes in the area have benefitted from insulation, double-glazing and solar panels thanks to grants organised by Acocks Greener.
Just up the road in Tyseley a ‘Green Energy and Innovation Quarter’ is expected to attract major investments as hi-tech energy-related firms are attracted here. As one of the preparations for this, Birmingham City Council has contracted Loconomy to form a ‘Coalition for Impact’ (C4I) project team to prepare a Community Economic Plan.
Acocks Greener is part of this team, focusing on residents to the South and East of the Tyseley industrial area (particularly in Tyseley, Hay Mills and Acocks Green). The project is gathering ideas until mid January 2025 and will then work them up into a plan, with suggested projects, for submission to Birmingham City Council in March.
Tyesley Environmental Enterprise District (TEED)
The views of local residents are important to this vision, so Acocks Greener is asking all of us who live around this area to share our ideas on how to improve the area in aspects such as:
Training and work
Green spaces/community facilities
Homes
Public transport
Cars, parking and safety
Please complete the short survey to help shape our part of Birmingham in a positive way, highlighting the good aspects of our area, what things are important to the community, as well as ideas for what could be improved.
Fill in the on-line questionnaire by clicking HERE or use this QR code below:
You can also contact us at info@AcocksGreenER.com Take this opportunity to shape all of our futures. Let your voice be heard
* Acocks Greener is working with Birmingham City Council and Loconomy Ltd on this Coalition for Impact (C4I) project. We are bringing together local organisations and communities, to better understand our communities and to engage our residents in the design of changes.
Here in Acocks Green a lot of people have their waste collection day scheduled for the Christmas public holidays, so there will be changes to the usual collection day. Check the table below to see when to put your household and recycling out for collection.
Possible Industrial Action It has also just been announced that there may be some industrial action by the bin collectors in early January. This is frustrating for citizens but you can sign up to get email updates about any changes there may be to the waste and recycling collections. Click on the HERE to register for updates.
Changes in 2025 – Increasing recycling
We all need to play a part in improving the city’s recycling rate which is one of the lowest in the country at 22.9%. The government has set a recycling target of 65% by 2035, so major improvements need to be made. The amount of ‘unusable’ recycling collected has increased from 11.1% in 2019/2020 to 30.6% last year (2023/2024). Recycling is unusable if it is mixed with items that:
Cannot be recycled
Should have been sorted into a different container
Have not been cleaned properly
If you have any queries about what you can and can’t recycle you can check current guidance HERE
The Council have made plans to make it easier for us to increase the amount we recycle and improve its quality – this will include a new Green Lid bin for paper and cardboard, and the current Blue Lid bins will be just for plastic, glass and metal. The paper recycling pods will be removed. There will be a new fleet of bin lorries operating in 2025 and the introduction of a weekly food waste collection, being phased in from July in the Acocks Green area. This will coincide with household waste collections be reduced to fortnightly instead of weekly.
If you have extra or large rubbish to dispose of you can always take it to the local household waste and recycling centre in Tyseley. You will need to book a time slot, you cannot turn up without making an appointment. Click HERE to book.
We hope you found this rubbish post useful.
Seasons Greetings from Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum!
This Sunday we invite the local community to come along and help plant tulip bulbs. Bring tools if you have them. There are 2000 bulbs to plant! This Sunday we will plant around Acocks Green Village, and the following Sunday we will work together on the Triabout.
This exclusive calendar, full of scenic views of the Acocks Green area, with photos taken by local people, is now available at Jeffries Hardware. Get your copy soon and help support the community – all funds go back to the Acocks Green Partnership.
Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum 