Councillor Keith linnecor and Barbara Dring help sort out another right mess.

The Oscott Residents Group would like to congratulate the Asgrove Neighbourhood Association on its successful attempt tho thwart the Birmingham Housing department and become a recognised residents association.
Members who have represented the ORG on the Oscott Housing Liaison Board ( now abandoned because the housing department could not get its own way) run literally by the Housing department know only too well what it is like to be expected to cow tow to the Housing department.
ORG would also like to say well done to Councillor Keith Linnecor and Barbara Dring for their efforts in trying to sort out the mess the Housing department seem to have got into with their siding with one faction of the Ashgrove residents against another.

ELDERLY RESIDENTS GROUP MEETING TODAY

There will be a meeting of the Oscott Elderly Residents group, today at 11.15am at the 610 Community Centre.
There will be tea and biscuits and a chance to have a chin wag and a laugh.
There will also be live musi today. Why not pop along.

OSCOTT RESIDENTS GROUPS PUBLIC MEETING 7TH AUGUST

There will be a meeting of the Oscott Residents groups on Saturday 7th August at 11.am. The venue will be the 610 Community Centre Kingstanding Road.

If you would like to let us know about any local concerns please come along.

We have asked Councillor Keith Linnecor to attend as our special guest speaker and we have also asked Khalid Mahmood MP., Councillor Barbara Dring, Councillor Graham Green and the Police to come along too.

The ORG include the Oscott Residents Association, The Oscott Disability Group,, The Oscott Elderly Residents Group, the Neighbourhood Police Initiative, Local Neighbourhood Forums and other Community Groups.

Please try and come along we would love to hear from you.

Nigel Quinn
Chair ORA

It is time Perry Common reopend.

It is about time the Perry Common Library re opened. Many of our older members rely on the Library and the service has been badly missed. We understand that a lot of work has been needed to restore the condition of the library and that the building is a graded one but feel it is about time it reopen. ORG will be in touch with our Councillors to ask them to push the Council to take action.

Traverlers move on.

The ORG are pleased to see that at last the Travelers who were using the old Crossway pub site Kingstanding have been moved on. We hope they will be charged for the mess they have left behind.

Save our bus pass

The Oscott Residents Groups are very concerned that the government may put back the age some one can have an elderly persons bus pass form 60 to 65. This will mean a lot of hardship for a lot of residents in the Oscott area and we would urge you write to your MP and ask him or her to take up the issue.

Councillor Keith Linnecor teams up with other Councillors to try and make Kettlehouse Road safe

The Oscott Resident Groups would like to thank Councillor Keith Linnecor and the other Oscott Councillors for getting together to write a letter to the Councils Highways department to try and get them to introduce traffic calming measures of some sort in Kettlehouse Road.
A joint approach may be just what is needed to prod the Council into taking much needed action.
Our post bags shows how much concern residents have with this issue.

Brian Brookes