City Council

Birmingham Conservatives have announced they will axe Labour’s planned congestion charge if they take control of Birmingham City Council in the all out local election of May 2018. The Labour run City Council have confirmed they are considering plans to introduce a congestion charge across Birmingham that would cost drivers around £2,700 a year to travel […]

The Labour Run City Council have rejected one of the largest petitions in it’s history. With almost 14,000 signatures calling for a council tax rebate for missed bin collections last summer. The Labour Leader of Birmingham City Council Ian Ward conceded “it was unusual to get petitions of this size” before concluding “I don’t believe […]

A campaign to save our weekly refuse collections has been launched, backed by local campaigner Simon Morrall. This follows a recent publication of a new Waste Strategy by the Labour controlled Birmingham City Council. The report, as covered in the Birmingham Post, recommended that all of our bins should be collected fortnightly, instead of weekly from […]

National Express West Midlands, the main bus operator in Frankley and Great Park, has announced the latest stage of it’s consultation on the future of bus travel in south Birmingham; it follows an earlier survey which it undertook last July about passing bus use.The current consultation features detailed proposals about possible bus route changes and […]

First, let me take this opportunity to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas and prosperous New Year. The seven months since becoming your Mayor have been busy with laying the foundations of our shared future success and achieving some encouraging progress. These are exciting times for the West Midlands. Our economy […]

The Labour controlled Birmingham City Council have today announced plans for how they hope to compensate for their previous financial mismanagement with their Budget proposals for 2018/19. The plans include £14m of additional savings on top of £63m already planned and a 5% increase in Council Tax. The budget proposals come in spite of at least a […]

Following 221 days of formal dispute with the Unions and a summer of misery for Birmingham residents, which left 22 double decker buses worth of rubbish a week across Birmingham’s streets, Labour run Birmingham City Council has given in to Union demands putting council finances at severe risk and rendering the chaos of the summer […]

Popular Local campaigner Simon Morrall has been pushing the Council to get collections made, restore weekly refuse collections, collect garden waste and to stop landfilling recycling. We have been gathering signatories on a petition calling on the Labour run Council to refund council tax to residents for all the chaos. If it hits 20,000 we can call for a […]

Ahead of the Labour Council Cabinet meeting on Tuesday a protest has been held demanding that the Labour Cabinet axe their plans to adopt a new waste strategy which recommends a business plan based on one of two forms of fortnightly Collections. The future waste strategy cabinet report, in section 7, recommends the Council adopt […]

City Council

City Council - March, 2018

Say No to Labour’s Congestion Charge Plan

City Council - February, 2018

No Rebate For Missed Bins, Instead, Council Tax To Rise.

City Council - January, 2018

Save Our Weekly Refuse Collections!

City Council - January, 2018

National Express West Midlands Bus Consultation

City Council - December, 2017

Andy Street : A Christmas Message.

City Council - December, 2017

Impact of Labour Budget Failings Revealed

City Council - November, 2017

Council caves as Labour failures pile costs on taxpayers.

City Council - November, 2017

We Demand A Council Tax Rebate.

City Council - October, 2017

Stop Labour’s plans to move to fortnightly refuse collections