Rail
Bromsgrove Cross City Trains: Six an Hour, Early 2030s
Two extra Cross City trains an hour would serve Bromsgrove and Redditch, but the scheme's own published timeline puts them in the early 2030s.
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Christmas
Bromsgrove Panto 2026: Rapunzel at Artrix, 4 to 30 Dec
Rapunzel runs at the Artrix from Friday 4 to Wednesday 30 December, 28 performances, £16 to £26 plus a £1.25 fee. Every date and time, and the dark days.
Christmas
Bromsgrove Christmas Market: Two Days, No 2026 Dates Yet
The Christmas market takes the Argos end of the High Street for two days, on top of the regular market. No 2026 dates published, 2025 ran 21 and 22 November.
Planning
Buntsford Hill: 112 objections, one letter of support
The 293-home Buntsford Hill file now holds 115 public comments: 112 object, one supports. Comments close 8 September, and 85 of them name Avoncroft Museum.
Licensing
Hagley Community Centre: alcohol licence bid to midnight
Hagley Community Association wants to sell alcohol and stage live music from noon to midnight, every day. Written representations close on 17 September.
Schools
Bromsgrove school places: apply 1 Sept, high school 31 Oct
Applications for September 2027 open on Tuesday 1 September. Bromsgrove's high schools admit at 13, so the 31 October deadline catches Year 8, not Year 6.
Parks
Bromsgrove and Rubery skatepark survey shuts 14 September
The council wants to refurbish the skateparks at Sanders Park and St Chad's Park, Rubery. Drop-ins on 4 and 8 September, survey closes midnight on the 14th.
Planning
Bromsgrove Golf Centre: 700 homes, 542 objections
National Highways wants permission withheld for three months and England Golf objects. 551 comments are in, 542 against, and consultation ends 6 September.
A38 BREP
BREP delay: what the county says about penalties
Delay damages only bite past the latest accepted programme, and the contractor covers half of any overspend up to 10 per cent. Spend is about £35m of £49.7m.
House prices
Bromsgrove house prices hit a record £339,163
The average Bromsgrove home reached £339,163 in June, the highest in Land Registry records back to 1995. May's fall was revised away. Malvern Hills is still £11,743 dearer.
Jobs
Bromsgrove jobless claims: 6% in Charford, 1% a mile away
The district rate held at 2.5% in July. Behind it, Charford is on 6.0% and Slideslow on 1.0%, and both are wards of Bromsgrove town little more than a mile apart.
Parking
Stourbridge Road car park closes on 25 September
Bromsgrove's 71-space Stourbridge Road car park shuts for good on 25 September. The scheme replacing it still has no permission. Object by 4 September.
Schools
Ofsted Bromsgrove: 6 report cards, Beaconside strong in 7
Six Bromsgrove district schools and nurseries now have Ofsted's new report cards. Beaconside is strong in all seven areas, Crown Meadow needs attention in five.
Bromsgrove sits just past the Lickey Hills, close enough to Birmingham that a great many people here commute into it and far enough out that the district is mostly countryside. Alvechurch and Barnt Green are the villages to the north east, Rubery and Wythall on the northern edge are effectively Birmingham fringe, and Hagley is over towards the Worcestershire and Dudley boundary.
Bromsgrove News reports what the district’s own record shows. Bromsgrove District Council publishes its planning register, licensing notices, committee papers and spending, and in a district ringed by green belt those documents are where nearly every significant local argument is written down first. We read them and report what is in them, with a link to the source on every fact.
Look here first
- Local Info: house prices across the district, train times to Birmingham and London, and roadworks and parking.
- News: the public record, including the new Local Plan and the 12,155 homes the district has been told to find room for.
- What’s On: things to do in Bromsgrove, on the Lickey and Clent Hills and along the canal.
Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.