Time may soon be up for motorists who park their cars all day in one of the town centre’s side streets.
Parking bays with a one hour maximum stay limit could be introduced to Stringer Street to stop drivers leaving their cars there all day following complaints from traders and residents about parked cars blocking the street. [Read more…]
Once again the Rotary Club of Biddulph has organised the ‘Youth Speaks’ Competition for teams of young speakers from Biddulph schools.
The event was held at the Victoria Community Centre on Monday 25th November with 6 teams of three speakers taking part, representing James Bateman Junior High School, Biddulph High School and Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy. The subjects chosen by the teams were both diverse and challenging, ranging from ‘Deforestation’, ‘Euthanasia’ and ‘Stranger Danger’. [Read more…]
A 29-year-old Biddulph man has been given a three-year anti-social behaviour order banning him from making unreasonable noise at his Southview home, shouting and swearing at his neighbours and congregating with more than three other people in the Southview area. [Read more…]
Calls to reinstate a crossing patrol near the junction of Congleton Road and Woodhouse Lane have been turned down by Staffordshire County Council.
Parents of children at the nearby Woodhouse Middle School were concerned over child safety after the Lollipop lady service was removed in 2009 but a study at the crossing point revealed that from 8am until 9am only four pedestrians used the crossing and 811 cars passed the spot. Following the assessment it has been deemed that due to the low numbers the crossing does not meet the criteria necessary to reinstate a crossing warden.
The Police search for suitable premises in Biddulph to serve as a new base for operations has led to a narrowing down of suitable properties. [Read more…]
A former car sales showroom in Biddulph could become a new car wash.
Permission is being sought for a change of use of the site on Walley Street, a former car sales and valeting business, to become a new hand car wash and valeting business.
The long awaited move of the Post Office from temporary accommodation behind the Town Hall back into the High Street has finally gone ahead. [Read more…]
Discarding a cigarette butt on a Biddulph street has cost a woman over £400.
The woman, from Congleton, was fined in her absence for throwing down her cigarette on the pavement outside a shop on Lawton Street in Biddulph by Stafford magistrates after a Staffordshire Moorlands District Council enforcement officer witnessed the incident earlier this year. She was fined £200 and ordered to pay £200.82 in costs and a victim surcharge of £20.
The newly appointed commander for Staffs Moorlands has expressed his desire to reinstate a Police Station in Biddulph.
