Bringing Communities Together
Businesses planning to reopen in the City of Wolverhampton from 12 April are being reminded to check the maintenance of their premises, including the safety of water systems to prevent Legionella risks. High risk businesses have been warned of the potential for increased risk of bacterial growth in water systems […]
Tributes have been paid to Councillor Sandra Hevican who has sadly passed away. Councillor Hevican had been in hospital for some weeks after testing positive for Covid-19 last month (February) and becoming seriously ill. Councillor Hevican, who was 55, was first elected in 2014 and represented the Tividale ward. Deputy […]
From tomorrow Sandwell Council’s mobile library will be visiting locations in the target areas affected by the Covid-19 variant first discovered in South Africa. People living there are urged to return completed tests to these mobile collection points if they are not in when council volunteers call to pick them […]
Construction work on a new community pavilion has begun at West Smethwick Park. The project, which is part of the wider £5.1million restoration of the park, will see a new building with a café, conference facilities, community rooms and toilets built on the site of the previous pavilion, which was […]
Two derelict Black Country industrial sites to be transformed into hundreds of new homes. Two more derelict industrial sites in the Black Country are to be transformed to provide vital new homes for local people following multi-million-pound investment deals by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). The investment paves the […]
Alan Williams and Stephen Whitehouse, who work for Sandwell Council’s environment partner Serco, delighted a Tividale school boy who dreams of becoming a ‘bin man’ when he’s older. Alan and Steve, part of the Commercial Waste team and provide schools and businesses across Sandwell with waste collections, have been visiting […]
A date can be nerve wracking enough but one of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust’s employees went one step further by airing theirs on TV! Electrical and Biomedical Engineering (EBME) Apprentice Ryan Allsopp has featured on E4’s “Teen First Dates”. It is a teenage spin-off of the popular Channel 4 programme […]
Plans to build five new council homes on two sites in West Bromwich have been given the green light with the awarding of a building contract by Sandwell Council. The £1.09 million scheme will see the much-needed homes built on two council-owned sites by J Harper & Sons Ltd. Two […]
While rates of Covid-19 in Sandwell continue to fall, a few areas still have high levels of infection. This includes Tipton Green. The rate of infection in Tipton Green is twice as high as the average rate for Sandwell as a whole. Tipton Green ward includes Tipton town centre, areas […]
Bid now for a slice of a £2million council fund created to help people celebrate Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Residents and community groups now have the chance to apply for money from a £2million fund to help people in all 69 of the city’s wards feel involved with the Birmingham […]
