It blazed, it rained, it blew a gale… but still teams of treasure hunters from Brierley Hill and across Dudley Borough raced around historic Brierley Hill, along the Pony Trail route to search for clues and work out where the treasure is hidden. Winners of this event on 28 and 29 August to be announced [...]
Work on Stourbridge College’s new creative industries campus, set in the heart of Brierley Hill will be commencing on 23rd August. The college will bring brand new arts and digital based courses to Brierley Hill and replace the outdated Longlands campus in Stourbridge. Over 600 hundred students are expected to attend on a daily basis [...]
Brierley Hill’s new Health and Social Care Centre has won another prestigious national award for the quality of its design. The LIFT national awards aim to encourage high quality health service buildings and the presentations were made in London last Thursday, 8th July. Dudley Infracare LIFT took the ‘Design’ award for its Brierley Hill development. The [...]
Plans for the Brierley Hill Campus of Stourbridge College remain on course despite the withdrawal of AWM support for the scheme. The college has confirmed that the move from AWM was not unexpected in the light of the cuts in public sector spending and it had already moved to put contingency plans in space. The [...]
How should buildings in the new Brierley Hill look? How can design influence the ‘feel’ and viability of a town centre? Can crime be designed out? Brierley Hill Civic Society will be having a presentation from Dudley Council on these matters on Monday 19th July at 5.30pm at St Michael’s, Brierley Hill. If you are [...]
For those wishing to see the proposals for the Brierley Hill town conservation area then plase click this link: http://www.dudley.gov.uk/environment–planning/planning/historic-environment/conservation-areas/brierley-hill-high-street-conservation-area The management proposals are in part B of the link
Moves by the new coalition government to axe Regional Spatial Strategies will NOT stop plans to bring major new building projects for Brierley Hill according to Dudley Council’s Senior Planning Policy Officer Annette Roberts. Proposals to increase the size of the Merry Hill Centre, create over 2000 new homes and bring offices and 10,000 jobs [...]
Long awaited improvements to Brierley Hill High Street, funded from the Brierley Hill Sustainable Access Network scheme (which brought Venture Way to the town), are moving ahead. The scheme will involve the widening of pavements to create parking bays, new Puffin Crossings and a new bus stop on the Western Side of the High Street [...]
Although it seems a long way off preparations are in hand for the Christmas lights in Brierley Hill High Street. Previous years have seen problems with the lights being extinguished as mains leads were polled out. Now four new mains points are being installed to prevent a repetition of the trouble. Christmas lights suppliers have [...]
Stourbridge College has revealed the plans for its new £11 million state of the art Creative Industries Centre in Brierley Hill. At a presentation to Brierley Hill Civic Society, Vice Principal Andy Sylvester told the meeting that the Centre, due to open in September 2011 will bring 600 full time students to the heart of [...]
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