Acocks Green Neighbourhood Forum Public Meeting

Posted on February 4, 2025 by Kit Barlow

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

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Keep the Green Clean!

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Kit Barlow

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.

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Tyseley Energy Park & Local Improvements – Share your Views

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Kit Barlow

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.

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Waste Collection over Christmas and 2025 Changes

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Kit Barlow

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 would like to read more, the details are all here : Planned Changes in 2025

    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!

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** Mass Community Spring Bulb Planting **

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Kit Barlow

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.

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Acocks Green Calendar 2025 – Available NOW

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Kit Barlow

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.

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Proposal for Curtis Garden Improvements – Share Your Views

Posted on October 7, 2024 by Kit Barlow

Curtis Gardens in Acocks Green is actually situated within the Tyseley & Hay Mills Ward. It is a much loved park with many daily visitors of all ages. The park has stood the test of time and has given many people great experiences and memories that they shall surely cherish as well as making new memories with their children and grandchildren.

Birmingham City Council has the means and opportunity to improve this much loved park and we would love to hear your views on what improvements should be prioritised to help uplift this already beautiful and meaningful park. Many children have climbed through the listed fish sculpture over the years!

Below is the Curtis Gardens Initial Options drawing showcasing the potential improvements and interventions that could take place. Birmingham City Council state to bear in mind that whilst the current funding cannot provide all of these options, there may opportunities for these to be phased as and when more funding becomes available. 

Share your views on the improvement plans here by 18th October https://www.birminghambeheard.org.uk/bcc/curtis-gardens-landscape-improvements/

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Get Your Photo in Next Year’s Calendar!

Posted on September 24, 2024 by Kit Barlow

Have you been out and about around the Acocks Greeen area and captured any interesting, quirky or scenic views? Send them in and you might see your photo appearing in the next Acocks Green Calendar 2025.

The AG calendar is now an established annual purchase for many people. These calendars have been sent all around the world as they make great gifts. Available for sale at Jeffries Hardware, they help raise money for the local community as well as being a practical way of keeping track of important dates and appointments. So share your photos, get out snapping, or buy a calendar! (Available from mid November 2024).

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Neighbourhood Forum Public Meeting -24th September

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Kit Barlow

Make a note in your diary.. everyone welcome!

Click on link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84031443311

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Last Chance to Speak Up about our Community Libraries

Posted on August 29, 2024 by Kit Barlow

Residents have until the Thursday 26th September to have their say about the future of our community libraries. There is also a chance to share your views in person. (See below). The council has given feedback from the first phase of the consultation and asks people to consider proposed new structures, which includes some libraries having part time hours, some being run by other organisations and some closing altogether. You need to click on the link below to look at these possible proposals. Although they state that no final decisions have been made.

There is also a chance to share your views in person. The consultation at Acocks Green Library coincides with their Coffee Morning, so a chance to have a hot drink too.

Drop in Consultations:

  • Acocks Green Library – Thursday 5 September 10.30am to 12 noon
  • South Yardley Library – Monday 16th September 3pm to 4.30pm

Click HERE and then scroll down to download ‘LIBRARIES CONSULTATION PACK’ for all the information about the proposed new library structure

Once you have read the pack you can also give your feedback HERE

It is important that as many people as possible share their views about libraries.

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