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Bonfires

With warming weather, many people are out tending to their gardens, hanging washing on the line and leaving windows open around the house for ventilation.

Smoke from garden bonfires can prevent your neighbours from enjoying their garden, opening windows or hanging washing out and can be an irritant for those people that have health conditions, such as asthma.

With the Romsley Recycling Centre closed and the District Council not currently emptying brown bins, more residents are lighting bonfire to get rid of their garden waste, this is causing many complaints.

Is that bonfire necessary?

Householders are therefore urged to consider an alternative method of disposing of garden waste e.g. composting, which can provide a useful soil enricher for your own garden.  Compost heaps/bins also provide a home for many insects, voles and even slow worms.

How to prevent smoke nuisance

If it is essential to burn material in the open air, please follow the advice below:

  • Light your fire when your neighbours are not likely to be in their gardens, having windows open for ventilations or washing on their line.  Speak to your neighbours and liaise with them.
  • All material to be burnt should be as clean and dry as possible
  • Bonfires should be sited as far as possible away from any houses
  • Check the wind direction to prevent smoke from being blown into your neighbours’ property or onto roads
  • Never burn plastics, oil, rubber, electrical components or other chemicals as these materials produce toxic and offensive fumes
  • All bonfires should be closely supervised, since they are potentially dangerous. Do not leave a fire smouldering – put it out using soil or water

What do I do if my neighbour is regularly having bonfires and I think it is a nuisance?

If you wish to make a complaint about a neighbour’s bonfire, please contact Bromsgrove District Council.

  • April 7, 2020 by

Lorry Blocking Wood Lane

A fertiliser lorry is blocking Wood Lane at Wood Lane Farm, the cabin has driven into the ditch and so far all attempts to get the lorry moved has failed.

Whilst work is going on today to get the lorry moved please avoid the area.

  • April 1, 2020 by

Bringing the Outdoors Indoor

Please Share The Following Suggestions with Your Elderly and Vulnerable Neighbours (phone call/distance conversation)

With the sun out shining, getting out and about can be difficult in this time of social isolation and distancing, but there are ways you can help people to still benefit. Spending time in green space, your garden or bringing nature into your everyday life can benefit both your mental and physical wellbeing. It can improve your mood, reduce feelings of stress or anger, and make you feel more relaxed.

It’s possible to still get these positive effects from nature while staying indoors at home. You could recommend to try the following:

• Spend time with the windows open to let in fresh air.
• Have flowers or potted plants in your home.
• Use natural materials to decorate your living space, or use them in art projects. This could include leaves, flowers, feathers, tree bark or seeds.
• Arrange a comfortable space to sit, for example by a window where you can look out over a view of trees or the sky, or watch birds and other animals.
• Grow plants or flowers on windowsills. For example, you could buy seeds online or look for any community groups that give away or swap them, share with your street or neighbours.
• Look at photos of your favourite places in nature. Use them as the background on your mobile phone or computer screen, or print and put them up on your walls.
• Listen to natural sounds, like recordings or apps that play birdsong, ocean waves or rainfall. Get as much natural light as you can. Spend time in your garden if you have one, or open your front or back door and sit on the doorstep and listen to nature around you.
• Take part in wildlife spotting from your window, share with others what birds and birdsongs you’ve heard.

If your feeling trapped and enclosed.

• Open the windows to let in fresh air. Or you could spend time sitting on your doorstep, or in the garden if you have one.
• Try looking at the sky out of the window or from your doorstep. This can help to give you a sense of space.
• Regularly change the rooms you spend time in.

  • March 24, 2020 by

Thieves like to strike at night

Thieves like to strike at night

Keep your eyes out for suspicious behaviour.

Report it, if you suspect it.

Please report suspicious activity to the police immediately by calling 999 (if not immediate phone 101)

  • March 19, 2020 by

Green Waste Can Harm Livestock and Wildlife

If you have grass cuttings and other garden waste, please use the Brown Council Bin or a your own compost bin/heap.

Please do not throw in hedge or fields, as what you arr getting rid of may be harmful to livestock and can kill hedgerow wildflowers, which are great pollinators.

  • March 19, 2020 by

Litter is Not Sweet

Our resident litter dropper continues to leave sweet wrappers along Wood Lane and in Pepperwood Close.

Every day three or four clear wrappers are being picked up.  It is suspected that it is a local person.

It is bad enough that volunteers have to clear the grot from non-villagers, but a resident…

If you know who is littering our village please ask them to stop or tell FVCA and they will approach.

  • March 19, 2020 by

Mothering Sunday Plants

Plants that you can give to people that care and love you can be picked up from St. Mark’s on Sunday.

The church will be open between 10.30 am and 1.30 pm. You are welcome to stop for private prayer.

  • March 19, 2020 by

Incident Update

Incident Update from West Mercia Police


Overnight we had 3 incidents in Fairfield.

Two break-ins at business premises (025s170320 and 030s170320) plus a motorbike stolen from a drive on Stourbridge Rd (191s170320).

Any info please call 101 and quote incident number.

  • March 17, 2020 by

Bonfires

It’s that time of the year, the weather improves and people start venturing into their gardens, perhaps doing a bit of clearing and having a bonfire.


If you are having a bonfire, please consider your neighbours – some may have washing on the line and others, who may have respiratory conditions and following isolation orders, are having some exercise in the garden.


Your consideration will be appreciated.

  • March 17, 2020 by

Recent Break-ins

Recently there have been several incidents where properties in and around Fairfield have been targeted, most recently in Fairfield last night. No information is currently been shared regarding most recent incident.


Can we remind you to remain vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to the Police, tel 101.


What is Suspicious Activity?


If a vehicle/person feels out of place please report to the Police as suspicious activity, tel. 101. Even if something seems trivial to you, it’s worth reporting as it could be important/vital information. Please remain vigilant at all times, and not just during anyone incident.

  • March 17, 2020 by