45,000 council houses don't meet Decent Homes Standard Tuesday, 10 December, 2024 Birmingham’s social housing crisis continues to deepen, with just 26.6% of council houses now meeting the Government’s Decent Homes Standard according to shocking new figures released in papers for today’s Cabinet meeting. In May 2023, a report by the Regulator for Social Housing exposed catastrophic failures in Birmingham’s social housing provision, including 17,000 overdue asbestos checks and 23... Articles
DBS Failures At Home School Transport Service … Yet Again 24th August 2021 Despite repeated reassurance that the crucial DBS checking and monitoring system have been overhauled and promises that there will be no repeat of last year’s... Articles
Call for utility companies to pay per day for roads they close 28th July 2021 The idea of lane rental schemes involves highway authorities charging any works promoter carrying out any works in the street for the time those works occupy... Articles
Council Fails To Hit Its Own Affordable Housing Requirement 20th July 2021 Birmingham 2022 – Update on the Perry Barr Regeneration Scheme Cabinet Papers show how Birmingham Labour’s flagship scheme only delivers a 22% mix of affordable... Articles
Bee Friendly Bus Shelters Pledge 16th July 2021 The Conservative Group have pledged to introduce bee-friendly bus shelters if the group take control in 2022. The announcement is also made alongside the pledge... Articles
Council Fines Itself For Breaching Clean Air Zone 13th July 2021 In response to questions raised by Conservative Councillors at Full Council today, the City Council have confirmed that their fleet and waste vehicles have been... Articles
Councillor calls for Euro 2020 fan zone 8th July 2021 Cllr Simon Morrall calls for City Council to allow the showing of the Euro 2020 Final Match this Sunday in a dedicated fan zone. Following the England win... Articles
Number 11 Bus Route changed after 95 years in service. 25th June 2021 A briefing note from TfWM has said that “ The reliability of service 11 has significantly deteriorated in recent months due to long term roadworks in Perry Barr... Articles
Cabinet Member refuses to apologise for not providing hot meals to city’s kids 24th June 2021 Only a few weeks into being elected Cllr Dominic Stanford has been able to resolve the long-term issue of hot school meal provision for two local schools in... Articles
Birmingham Labour Commonwealth Games claims in tatters as village scrapped 11th August 2020 Labour run Birmingham City Council’s plans for an Athletes Village for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 have been abandoned with the Government stepping in to... Articles
Boris Johnson on the Roadmap to Easing Lockdown: Speech in Full 22nd February 2021 The Prime Minister set out today the roadmap that will guide us cautiously but irreversibly towards reclaiming our freedoms while doing all we can to protect... National News
Our Covid-19 UK Vaccines Delivery Plan 11th January 2021 Today we have published our Covid-19 UK Vaccines Delivery Plan, setting out how we plan to deliver the biggest vaccination programme in British history, to... National News
Second Approved Vaccine Begins Rollout Today 4th January 2021 Today, thousands of people across the UK will begin receiving the second vaccine approved by regulators. National News
Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives 4th January 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson has addressed the nation on Coronavirus restrictions. National News
Deal Done: We have taken back control with our UK-EU trade deal 30th December 2020 We have secured an excellent deal for the United Kingdom, which delivers on what the British people voted for both in the referendum and the last election. National News
The Prime Minister’s Statement on Coronavirus in Full 19th December 2020 The Prime Minister announces new measures to be taken in London, the South East and the East of England to tackle coronavirus, including new Tier 4 restrictions... National News
