Labour to make bid for Walsall Council control
Walsall’s opposition Labour group will make a bid to take control of the council this week, it has emerged.
Walsall’s opposition Labour group will make a bid to take control of the council this week, it has emerged.
More than 2,300 bins each fortnight are still going uncollected in Walsall for containing the wrong rubbish, the council has revealed.
More than 100 social workers from around the country have expressed an interest in joining a council’s troubled children’s services division.
A key report recommending sweeping changes to Walsall’s under-fire children’s services department today found workloads for social workers are too high and agency staff are used too frequently.
Revised plans to create extra heathland at a popular beauty spot in Brownhills are still a major concern, campaigners said today.
Changes to bin routes in Walsall have been blamed for missed collections in a borough street.
Just two workers have suffered compulsory redundancy at Walsall Council this year despite the need to axe more than 160 posts, bosses have revealed.
Multi-million pound plans for a new library in Walsall have hit further delays – after a deal to sell of land to fund the building collapsed.
Opposition councillors have criticised a decision to pump almost £8 million of funding into a stalled £21m shopping centre development.
A record number of visitors flocked to Walsall’s four leisure centres and organised activities in the borough in the past year, new figures have revealed.
Regeneration chiefs today said installing Primark and Co-op into Walsall town centre would be a ‘huge boost’ as it emerged the council will lead the project.
More than £2 million of business rates went uncollected in Walsall during the last 12 months, it has emerged.
Moves to convert a former student union building in Walsall into an enterprise and innovation centre are poised to go ahead after no objections were received.
A doctor’s surgery in Walsall that serves 3,000 patients will be given a permanent home, under plans lodged with Walsall Council.
More than £1million will be ploughed into improving run-down schools across Walsall.
THE worst five dumping spots in a West Midlands borough were exposed today as council bosses reveal their latest weapon in the fight against fly-tippers.