Rapid progress is being made on the development of the new Perry Barr Railway Station ahead of next year’s Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

A steel frame which will support the new station building is now taking shape on site as work continues at pace to get the structure ready for opening next spring. Deputy Mayor of the West Midlands Councillor Bob Sleigh was among guests to visit the site to see how the £30.9 million development project is proceeding and sign the steel girders – thus preserving their names on the building for posterity.

Sweetlake Meadow is a selection of stylish new apartments, townhouses and executive detached properties in Shrewsbury, which Shropshire developers, SJ Roberts Homes, have now completed.

Sweetlake Meadow is in a prime location for families, with children of all ages, and helps to fulfil the local area’s growing demand for quality living. The community of 173 properties is close to Shrewsbury town centre but still nestled amidst glorious countryside.

Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Cannon Hill Park, canal-side at Mailbox, Winterbourne House & Gardens and St Paul’s Square have each received a celebratory plaque to mark their position as one of the city’s favourite breathing spaces.

The findings were revealed in a new survey of Birmingham residents commissioned by Taskforce for Lung Health. With 1 in 5 people in the UK diagnosed with lung disease during their lifetime, the Taskforce is encouraging people across the city to pause and ‘take a breath’ for five minutes and appreciate the vital role our lungs play.

Twenty-two ‘inmates’ were recently incarcerated for office-based crimes against their co-workers, all in the name of charity. The Jail or Bail event raised more than £30,000 for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity during its 30^th anniversary year.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity collaborated with HM Prison Shrewsbury and invited employees of corporate supporters and Midlands businesses to sign up their CEOs and senior managers to a Jail or Bail event. Each ‘inmate’ had a £600 goal to fundraise in order to raise their bail and be released after a night in the clink.

A team of 14 daredevils from Azets, the UK’s largest regional accountancy and business advisor to SMEs, has raised a total of £2,600 for Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity by abseiling 190 ft down the Park Regis Hotel on Broad Street.

The event took place on Saturday, 21 August 2021 and is the first active event under Azets’ new charity partnership with Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity. The partnership, announced last month, includes a pledge by Azets to raise £25k in the next 12 months under its ‘Strive for £25k’ campaign, which will cover the cost of a full-time peer support worker for Forward Thinking Birmingham.

City of Wolverhampton Council is seeking views on proposed changes to further protect three existing conservation areas from harmful development. A public consultation on Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plans for Bushbury Hill, Vicarage Road (Penn) and Wightwick Bank will start tomorrow (Monday August 23) and run until October 11. 

The current appraisals for these three areas do not adequately support their designation, which means it is difficult to protect their special architectural and historic features when development is proposed. The new independent appraisals have been commissioned to provide strong, up-to-date evidence to better support and protect the three conservation areas.