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During the lockdowns of 2020/2021 Coleshill Town Council was inundated with applications from residents requesting allotments in Coleshill. Coleshill is lucky enough to have a thriving allotment community boasting 100+ allotments over three sites all managed by the Town Council. The allotments were soon full, and an extensive waiting list was building up.

That’s when the Council decided to get in contact with Hayden Wright, Community Engagement Manager for Balfour Beatty Vinci (BBV – the contractors engaged on the local sections of the HS2 works), to see if there was any help that they could provide in turning a section of the Stonebridge South allotment, that had been inactive for around 5 years, becoming very overgrown and unusable.

Hayden and BBV were willing to help and got in touch with Tom Law from LYNCH plant hire who jumped at the opportunity to get involved!

Site meetings were held with all the relevant stakeholders including Coleshill Town Councillors and arrangements were made for the work to go ahead; BBV Utilities team scanned the area for the potential of hidden utilities, and an ecologist assessed the area and would also be present on site for when works took place, just in case there were any ecological constraints.

On Friday 10 December LYNCH plant hire provided an excavator and plant operator to begin levelling and clearing the land to make the site into usable allotments for the council to then rent out in spring 2022.

Work on site took Nathan, Plant Operator, around four hours to complete and from the images, you can see how much difference this made! Well done to all involved!

If you are interested in having an allotment, please contact Coleshill Town Council on info@coleshilltowncouncil.gov.uk for more information.

For this work to be completed, the council tapped into BBV’s ‘Community Investment’ scheme where all the resources, human and mechanical, are made available for community projects, free of charge.  The diggers and lifting vehicles used would have been expensive if hired for the day by Coleshill Town Council but the people, fuel, insurance and all the equipment booked onto this job came free of any costs, thanks to the BBV scheme.

Good morning neighbour,

Please find attached a notification of works detailing temporary overnight lane closures near Stonebridge Island from Monday 26 July being carried out by LM (Laing O’Rourke and J. Murphy & Sons) on behalf of HS2.

 Subject to obtaining the relevant consents, we will install temporary, phased overnight lane closures from 7pm to 12.30am between Monday 26 July to Friday 30 July, and on Monday 2 August, along varying sections of the A446, A452 and A45 near Stonebridge Island to undertake environmental surveys.

Also, earlier in the month, we informed you that we would install temporary, phased daytime lane closures from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day between Monday 12 July to Thursday 15 July, and Monday 19 July to Tuesday 20 July, along sections of the A446, A452 and A45 near Stonebridge Island. We will now extend this programme from Monday 12 July to Friday 16 July.

Please see the below link for full details.

 LM on behalf of HS2 – Notice of overnight lane closures near Stonebridge Island from 26 July

Please share this notification with your employees, tenants and/or customers as required via your various communications channels. If you receive questions or enquiries about our works, please encourage people to subscribe for news updates on HS2 works in Solihull at www.hs2insolihull.co.uk. Where possible, please use the following text to promote our communications channels:

Stay in touch

As HS2’s works increase in this area, HS2 and their contractors want to keep you updated on all planned activities to inform your future journeys. On HS2’s Commonplace portal, you can sign up for news updates in the Solihull area at www.hs2insolihull.co.uk; you can sign up under the heading ‘Subscribe to news updates for HS2 in Solihull’ on the homepage.

 You can also find information about HS2’s works in surrounding areas at:

hs2inwarwickshire.co.uk

hs2instaffordshire.co.uk

hs2inbirmingham.co.uk

hs2incheshire.co.uk

 To get in touch with HS2, contact their HS2 Helpdesk team all day, every day of the year on:

08081 434 434

hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk

If you have any questions about our works promoted in the attached notification, please contact Fiona Woolston by email at fwoolston@lm-jv.com.

Many thanks,

Community Engagement Team

08081 434 434 | Community@lm-jv.com

6th Floor, Cornerblock,Two Cornwall Street, Birmingham B3 2DX

Find out more about what we do and how we do it – www.lm-jv.com

Coleshill Town Council is pleased to announce the opening of the Grants Award Scheme. This is an opportunity for local voluntary organisations to obtain funding of up to £2,000. Please see the links below for the full guidelines and application form.  The closing date for 2019-2020 awards is Midnight, Monday 26th August 2019.

Grants Scheme Guidelines

Grants Scheme Application Form