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The candidates have been announced for the by-election taking place later this month to fill a vacancy on Wyre Forest District Council. The by-election for the Franche and Habberley North ward is taking place on Tuesday 30 November.  There are four candidates standing for election: Doug Hine (Independent), Nigel Knowles (Labour Party), David Ross (Conservative Party) and Oliver ...

The projected funding gap Wyre Forest District Council is facing looks set to be around £2.7million by 2024. This is despite the authority making savings of more than £1 million in the last financial year. A report setting out the council’s final accounts for 2020-21 shows savings of £1.074 million from an overall net budget of £14million. The financial gap is due to changes in ...

The number of electors in the district who have requested a postal vote has significantly increased. Almost a fifth (18%) of people on the electoral register have requested a postal vote for the local elections being held on Thursday 6 May. The number of postal voters is a record 14,340 out of the 77,673 currently registered electors. The last time local elections were held in ...

A Kidderminster man who abandoned his vehicle in a Kidderminster street has been fined £1,000 by magistrates this week.  Shane Mitchell Price, of East Street, Kidderminster ignored a formal notice issued by Wyre Forest District Council’s enforcement team requiring him to remove the vehicle so the case was referred to Kidderminster Magistrates. Mr Price was fined during a hearin ...

An historic Kidderminster building transformed and brought back to life by Wyre Forest District Council has been shortlisted for a prestigious design award. The council’s Hub building in Green Street, designed by Sjolander da Cruz Architects, has been named a finalist for the Architects Journal Retrofit Award in the ‘workplace under 2,000m²’ category. In 2019, the council compl ...

The Leader of Wyre Forest District Council, Councillor Graham Ballinger, has announced changes to his Cabinet which take effect immediately (20 January). He has decided to terminate the appointment of Councillor Fran Oborski as Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Economic Regeneration, Planning and Capital Investments. Councillor Ballinger has appointed Councillor Helen Dyke a ...

Budget proposals to balance the books following the most challenging year in Wyre Forest District Council’s history will be discussed by Cabinet next week. Members will consider the draft Medium Term Financial Strategy when they meet on Tuesday 22 December, containing a raft of options which will ultimately be decided by full council at the annual budget-setting meeting in Febr ...

A review of polling stations in the Blakebrook & Habberley South and Franche & Habberley North wards of Kidderminster is to be repeated. All residents in the area, including those who have already completed a questionnaire online in October and November, will be asked to complete a new survey that has gone live today (Friday 11 December) and runs until 5pm on Friday 29 ...

There is just a week left for residents to have their say on Wyre Forest District Council’s Cabinet budget proposals. So far almost 800 people have taken part in the online survey. The Cabinet’s proposals seek to transform the council into a smaller organisation, while protecting essential front-line services. They are aiming to close an estimated funding gap of £2.7 million by ...

Residents are being urged to have their say on a range of budget proposals put forward by Wyre Forest District Council’s Cabinet. A short survey to gather feedback on the Cabinet’s key proposals is now live on the council’s website. It is estimated that the authority will have a funding gap of £2.7 million by 2022-23, which has been made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic. At its m ...