Author: Clare Wood

Please note the consultation period ends on Friday 6 June 2025. The Parish Council encourage all residents to engage in the process and make your comments and views known. In order to comment you will need to register or log in. If you need help with any aspect of this, please contact the Clerk to the Parish Council, Clare Wood (email: clerk@hockleyheathparishcouncil.gov.uk).

Comments on planning applications can also be made in writing by email or post:

Email comments directly to planning@solihull.gov.uk 

or write to:

Development Management, Solihull MBC, Manor Square, Solihull, B91 3YA – you must include your name and address with any comment (also include the planning reference number, which is PL/2025/00879/PPOL). Anonymous comments cannot be considered.

PL/2025/00879/PPOL | Outline application with all matters reserved except for access for the erection of up to 99 dwellings, formation of access, infrastructure and open space. | Land South Of School Road Hockley Heath Solihull

This matter is on the Agenda for discussion at the Parish Council meeting on Thursday 15 May 2025.

Social media experiment reveals potential to ‘inoculate’ millions of users against misinformation

An Engagement Officer from the Adult Social Care Directorate will be visiting the Drop in Cafe session at the Pavilion hall on Tuesday 25th March 2025 to talk informally with residents regarding care and the support available.

A review of the Council’s community information and advice service for adults is currently taking place. The survey is open until Sunday 30 March 2025.

Community Advice Service review | Your Voice Solihull

https://www.solihull.gov.uk

Plastic bags and wrapping recycling launches in Solihull

Solihull residents can now recycle plastic bags and wrapping along with their usual recycling at the kerbside.

Everything that’s ‘soft plastic’ – from plastic bags, foil lined coffee bags and biscuit and sweet wrappers, to plastic film, bubble wrap, food wrapping and fruit and vegetable net bags – can now all be placed in the mixed recycling bin for fortnightly collection.

Solihull’s Cabinet Member for Environment and Infrastructure, Cllr Ken Hawkins, said: “Thanks to the state-of-the-art recycling facility in Coventry we were able to introduce mixed recycling a little over a year ago, dispensing with the need to separate out glass bottles and jars. To now be at the stage where residents can add plastic wrappings for recycling too is fantastic. Two years ahead of the government’s target!

“Plastic bags and wrapping represent about 20% of all plastic packaging but until now people have only been able to recycle them at supermarket collection points. Offering residents an easy way of recycling packaging means we can all recycle easily in a hassle-free way. Just make sure your crisp bags and wrappers are empty and clean before recycling, just as you would with empty tins and bottles.”

For full details please visit the council’s waste and recycling pages here https://www.solihull.gov.uk/Rubbish-and-recycling

For more information contact the press office on press@solihull.gov.uk or 0121 704 6136.