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Bradley Thomas has a 30-minute Westminster Hall debate on the A38 BREP scheme at 4pm on Tuesday 13 October. A transport minister must reply in person.
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Planning
Littleheath Lane: 8 Green Belt homes, flood objection stands
Planners back up to 8 homes on Green Belt off Littleheath Lane, Lickey End, while the flood officer's objection stands. 12 objections, no support.
Christmas
Santa's grotto Bromsgrove 2026: Avoncroft from £18
Avoncroft Museum's Santa visits run 5, 6, 12 and 13 December at £18 a child, booking open now. Bromsgrove Garden Centre does Breakfast with Santa 19 to 24 Dec.
Christmas
Avoncroft Museum Christmas 2026: open to 20 December
Avoncroft opens Wednesdays and weekends, 10am to 3pm, until 20 December. Adults £15, under-5s free; Christmas Through Time with Santa runs 5, 6, 12 and 13 Dec.
Community
Beautiful Bromsgrove book: 150 local views, out 30 Sept
Peter Hawcroft's Beautiful Bromsgrove, out 30 September at £15.95, gives a grid reference for every one of its 150 photos so you can find each view yourself.
Parking
Bromsgrove Town Centre Parking: The 7 Car Parks Left
Stourbridge Road closed on 24 September, taking 71 spaces. The seven council car parks left, their prices, and the four that take season tickets.
Planning
Hagley Western Road: 350 homes, comment by 18 October
Taylor Wimpey wants up to 350 homes on fields south of Western Road, Hagley, half of them affordable. Feedback closes 18 October, drop-in 9 October.
A38
Bromsgrove A38 Crash: Cyclist in His 80s Dies at New Road
A man in his 80s died at the A38 junction with New Road on Tuesday. Police want dashcam footage. No cyclist died in the district in the five years to 2025.
Community
Creative Friends Bromsgrove Gets £20,000 for Free Youth Art
A £20,000 National Lottery grant keeps Creative Friends running at Artrix for a year and adds a free monthly Young Creators workshop from 13 October.
Business
Dudley Building Society Opens at 23 Bromsgrove High Street
The society's first Worcestershire branch opened on 21 September in the old Co-op Funeralcare. Lloyds and Halifax shut on the same street in May 2025.
Sanders Park
Bromsgrove Halloween Light Trail: 31 October, 5pm, Free
The Halloween Light Trail returns to Sanders Park on Saturday 31 October, 5pm to 10pm, and it is free. The park's car park should be 29 bays bigger by then.
House prices
Bromsgrove house prices: June's record revised away
The average Bromsgrove home was £335,607 in July, up 2.3% on the year. June's record £339,163 has been revised down by £3,380 and is no longer a record.
Jobs
Bromsgrove jobless claims hit 1,560, most since 2024
1,560 people in the Bromsgrove district claimed jobless benefits in August, up 80 in a month and the most since November 2024. Charford is now on 6.4%.
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.
Nothing is published here that we cannot link to a source.