Continue reading »]]> Moseley in Bloom will be launching its 2012 campaign on the weekend of 24^th and 25^th March and this year already looks to be action packed!

The Saturday will see the return of our stall on the award winning Moseley Farmers Market. Not only will you be able to purchase various springtime plants at the stall to help your garden and house escape the winter blues, but you will also be able to sign up as a “Friend of Moseley in Bloom” supporting the Moseley in Bloom initiative further and entitling you to a free Open Gardens ticket (which you will be able to collect on the day of the Open Gardens) along with other benefits!

The stall will also enable you to have a sneak peak of the work taking place with Queensbridge School on an anti-litter campaign which will hit Moseley during 2012.

From 10.30am on the Sunday sees the first of our Volunteers Weekends where we will be starting the second phase of the Car Park project. This exciting part of the project looks to improve the bedding area located next to Kingfishers (on the left hand side as you enter the car park). Improvements are designed to help ensure the area is safer, removing the pathway behind the laurels and ensuring a more attractive entrance for visitors of Moseley.

Preparation work will also be taking place on the Sunday at St Mary’s Church to create a wild-flower area – the start of an ambitious project which hopes to grow year on year in size. This links directly to the Royal Horticulture Society’s campaign to introduce more pollinating plants to help protect the vital insects such as butterflies, moths, hover-flies and bees that enable us to bloom each year…

We are seeking volunteers to help us on this day (which also coincides with the monthly car park clear up) so do please come along if you can along with any tools such as loppers, forks and spades. Don’t let the fear of hard grafting get to you however as there is plenty of lighter work available. You support is much needed! Help us to make Moseley to sparkle ready for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations!

For more information email info@moseleyinbloom.org.uk or contact Adam Styler on 07588 868 533.

Continue reading »]]> Local residents are joining with Birmingham City Council’s Planning Department to work out a new plan for Moseley. The last plan was drawn up 1992 and so needs to be updated. This is the first time residents have been allowed to lead on such a plan. The purpose of this new document is to help achieve the following:

• Make Moseley a better place to live, work and play in
• Ensure local resident’s ambitions are included
• Let Developers, businesses and others understand local priorities
• Tackle climate change

This is your chance to tell us about your ideas and views. We need your help in producing Moseley’s Big Plan.

Can you answer one (or as many as you like) of the 7 questions we have listed below. All of the responses we get will help shape the new plan for Moseley.

BIG 7 QUESTIONS

1. How can we the village centre better?
2. How could do we attract more local jobs?
3. How could we make it easier to get to work, school and the shops?
4. What should we do to protect improve our historic buildings and parks?
5. How we can provide more things to do for young and older people?
6. In the future, what types of homes will be needed?
7. How can we make Moseley a greener place to live?

Do you have any other suggestions that will help make Moseley a better place?

Send us your answers and to find our more go to www.MoseleyCDT.com/bigplan

Also, you can pick information and leave comments about Moseley’s Big Plan in some local shops, the Moseley Exchange (behind Moseley Post Office) and Kings Heath Library. Look out for the BIG PLAN mailboxes and postcards.

• Come and meet us on Market days on Saturday, 27^th and February, 27^th March.
• Come along to a workshop to learn more about Moseley’s BIG plan and issues facing Moseley in the future.

Public events with WM Planning Aid:

• 22^nd March 2010, 7pm at the Moseley Exchange (149 Alcester Road, B13 8JP)

• 30^th March 2010, 7pm at the Moseley Exchange

Moseley’s Big Plan is an initiative from the Moseley Regeneration Group. This group is made up representatives from local community groups such as Moseley Forum, Moseley Society, Moseley in Bloom and Moseley Business Association