Bromsgrove news, what's on and local information

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.