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Have Your Say..
Posted Monday, August 4, 2008
Can anyone tell me if there is a bus from Dickens Heath through to wythall
in the mornings
Lisa
Posted
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Can anyone tell me why someone is opening a private day nursery on
the high street of the village?? We have a great local community preschool
in place and two very good full day nurseries close by. How ridiculous to
run a nursery out of a shop front in the village. Surely the landlord of
these properties should think again. It is not at all suitable for young
children. Is it a case of 'just trying anything' because nothing else has
worked?? We need to build the village centre so come on landlords lower
your rents and get some new businesses in.
Jane
Posted
Monday, June 2, 2008
Dickens Heath - GARAGE WANTED
Wanted - Garage to store my car in overnight in the summer and both day and
night through the winter.
Carports / secure parking would be considered. Please Email
mattball@fsmail.net
Posted Saturday,
May 24, 2008
Anyone been into the Chinese on the main High St in
the heath recently? The brunette girl that works there is gorgeous,
certainly a reason to go back there. By the way the food is ok
Anonymous
Posted
Monday, May 12, 2008
I thought I had visited the local landfill when taking a trip to the
Dickens Heath park today. It was disgusting, covered in drink cans and
bottles together with food containers and wrappers. We should all be
glad that we have such a nice park but I doubt that the low life who
left their rubbish in the park give a damn. What a scummy society we
live in.
Andy
Posted
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Cyclesolihull is arranging one of their Community Cycle Rides from
Dickens Heath on Wednesday 7 May, leaving from outside the library at 7
pm. It will be a 9 mile ride out to Tanworth and Earlswood Lakes with a
refreshment stop. It is suitable for all types of cyclist and there is
no need to book - just turn up for a pleasant ride in the countryside
with a few other people. Further details from
www.cyclesolihull.org.uk
Steve
Posted Monday, April 7, 2008
174/173 Bus Service
Melissa my daughter attends Solihull 6th Form College and uses the bus.
I agreed it doesn't run every half hour but in the morning the bus goes
through the village at 8:24 and gets into Solihull at 8:52 if that's any
good. Coming back you can catch the 16: 35 or 17:50 which gets in the
village at 16:54 and 18:09 respectively. For a bus time table try
www.networkwestmidlands.com
Gary Smith
Posted Monday, March 24, 2008
I have live in dickens heath for 4 years and love the
place... it is so quiet there, i just hope it stays that way:)
Claire
Posted Wednesday, March 19, 2008
What Gets Me Down About Dickens Heath ?
Having lived in DHV for 6 years I find that the otherwise cordial
lifestyle is spoiled by:
Speeding Traffic: Idiots with more money that their intelligence and
behaviour would suggest suitable, driving like chav boy racers around
the tight bends and curves of the village; mobile phones inevitably in
hand. Nobody seems to want to take ownership of this problem. The
Council witters on about the road layout being designed so as to prevent
speeding. In reality, the cretins who treat the village as a race track
use the bends as an extra challenge. It'll end in a tragedy soon. I
just hope not for my children.
School Run Traffic: Despite all properties being a spit away from the
school, every morning the length of Three Acres Lane is a sea of cars
straddled hither and thither. God forbid that anyone should actually
walk for 5 minutes.
Ghost Town: The repeated failure of businesses in Main Street is
symptomatic of the burdensome cost of running a commercial concern under
a cloud of oppressive rents and associated costs. I fear we live in a
ghost town in the making. I wonder if the landlords even care?
Dickens Heath can and should be outstanding. A common sense of
responsibility can help it become so.
Chris S, Dickens Heath resident.
Posted Monday, March 3, 2008
Phil the Walker - keep on walking (the opposite way
hopefully)
Bobby
Posted Monday, March 3, 2008
I have been living in dickens heath for about 7 years and
everyone has said there will be a bus service which will take us to
towards Solihull way and back to dickens heath but i have not yet seen a
good bus service out of the time i have lived in dickens heath. The bus
service at the moment is awful as it runs every now and again and not
even at specific times such as every half hour, I don't like living in
dickens heath as it is so far away from everything I wouldn't mind though
if their was a good bus service travelling into and out of the village. I
am currently at Solihull sixth form college and I find it hard to get
their and back home on time as i am only able to catch the 4 bus which
is a 20 minute walk to get to. We need to try and find a solution for us
teenagers and adults who cant drive to be able to get into and out of
the village to be able to get to work, college and school!!!!!
Melissa E
Posted Monday, March 3, 2008
I've been living in Dickens Heath for about 6 months and all i can say
is that most of the people on here who are complaining must have had a
very fortunate life to feel that there is anything really worth moaning
abut in the area.
Maybe business's are not surviving, and maybe there are a few 'youths'
occasionally in the area but speaking as someone who has had to work
extremely hard to get out of 'the real world' and move into somewhere as
safe and inviting as Dickens Heath, you really need to open your eyes to
the state rest of the country and the appalling conditions some people
are unfortunate enough to have to live in and maybe you will see just
how good you have it.
Matt
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008
What the Dickens? I am an avid walker & have recently decided to have a
stroll through Dickens Heath. I can honestly say I've never seen a place
like this! My first impressions were good, very clean, very tidy etc,
but as I continued my walk I noticed something else. The place began to
look very bland, very false. I failed to see a single person. I began to
feel uneasy. I approached the village shops. A Tescos & an expensive
restaurant or two & that was about it. I see there used to be a chip
shop in the village. I'm not surprised it closed, in fact I'm amazed it
was ever opened. A chip shop in a place like this! As I walked out of
the village, I realised what that it reminded me of the village in the
1960's TV series "The Prisoner", Very pretty, very clean & slightly
threatening. I live in Birmingham & I know that Brum is a bit of a dump,
but at least it has character & soul. Dickens Heath however resembles a
well-kept prison.
Phil the Walker
Posted Monday, February 4, 2008
CRIME IN DICKENS HEATH
Please please can everyone be aware and cautious.
My husband and I live in Dickens Heath and both of our cars were broken
into last night. My spare tyre was stolen and my husbands In car stereo
system was taken from his car. I am so angered by this. it is not the
first time we have been victims of crime in Dickens Heath, the same
thing happened 4 years ago albeit at a different address. Many people
feel safe and protected in our village, i am one of those people, i do
things I should not do regarding the safety of our home. I now feel
vulnerable and want to warn people of this. I know that a few homes down
our road have been targeted for sat nav systems over the past few
months. please tell people to watch out and be careful
Sarah
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008
The businesses that have done well are Mortons, Tesco's, Heath Dental,
Dry Cleaners, Janaki's and Giovanni's. The village can not sustain much
more. If the fish and chip shop wasn't so rubbish it would have done
well. The same applies to quite a few of failed businesses in the list.
Still, I agree it's a shame so many fail. Out of the restaurants
Giovanni's is excellent. Particularly the steaks. Janaki's can be good
and Morton's offers up decent food. I haven't tried the Chinese yet, but
will do so shortly. As for broadband I'm with Be There and I'm
syncing at 6,500kbps. I live on Old Dickens Heath Road.
Bobby
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008
And now John Shepherd have packed up and left, and the garden furniture
shop is closing! I make that 12 businesses that have come and gone:
1 Newsagents (lasted about five minutes)
2 Chip shop and pizzeria (now Da Vinci's)
3 Coffee shop
4 Belushi Woman and Kids
5 Toy Den
6 Women's clothes shop
7 SO Travel
8 Art gallery
9 John Shepherd
10 Campbell Watson (relocated to Waterside)
11 Lingerie shop
12 Abacus
Surely Parkridge should reduce the rent, if only until the new centre is
built and the village is fully populated and can support the local
businesses?
Mike
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008
I pay £14.99 per month with Tiscali. Though this is via a BT line,
Tiscali have taken over its ownership. This means that the price
includes broadband, line rental and free weekend phone calls. I believe
that they are currently including wireless broadband when you sign up to
a 12 month contract.
Andy
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008
It won't matter which provider you get ADSL from (over a BT Line) they
will all be down to line length / quality of wiring.
It's unlikely that Cable is in the area as most cable companies are cash
strapped and won't provide the materials to the builders.. so what
they'll do is canvass you all then when demand is high cause the will
promise high speed access, they'll dig up the verges and roads and lay
cable - ta-dah!
Noodle of Solihull
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008
Another thing that surprises me is that given we have such a dense
population on dickens heath that how few forum posters there are either
here or on the dickensheath.co.uk thing that was set up. Come on people
whether to moan or to praise lets get things going somewhere.
PS as for the restaurants round here mentioned before I can whole
heartedly recommended the Cantonese on main street good food, decent
prices and decent portions............says the fat bloke so u know its
gotta be good.
Diamond Joe
Posted Monday, January 28, 2008
Jodie, I don't think there is a cable service into dickens heath sadly
so I think your stuck with needing a land line
Diamond Joe
Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Hi, Is it possible to get broadband to a property in Dickens Heath
without a phone line. A friend of mine uses Virgin and just pays a small
charge each month and doesn't need to rent a phone line. I don't think
Virgin is available in Dickens Heath but does anybody know if there are
any others. I don't want to pay the price of renting a BT phone line and
then pay the charge for internet on top of that. Your suggestions are
appreciated. Many Thanks
Jodie
Posted Monday, January 21, 2008
Cheers Steve that's useful to know, had a quote for an ADSL2 speed that
was slower than what I'm on now which seemed odd, damn the Shirley
Exchange for being so far away
Diamond Joe
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2008
I'm with BT in Waterside. The highest I got is 3.5meg, at the moment at
11:00 I'm getting 2meg. Hope that helps
Steve
Posted Monday, January 14, 2008
Hi Guys, what's the fastest broadband speed anyone is getting on Dickens
Heath? I know we quite away from exchange in Shirley but wondering if
anyone has got quicker that the 3mb I currently got and who with
Diamond Joe
Posted Monday, November 26, 2007
And now I've just heard that SO Travel are relocating to Solihull. Good
grief - there's going to be no-one left!
Mike
Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Tanworth-in-Arden Parish Council has allotments available on it's site
by the Reservoir Pub in Earlswood. For more details contact Parish Clerk
on 01564 703200 --
office@tanworth-pc.org.uk
Posted
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Is anyone concerned about the frequency with which businesses close on
the Heath? It looks as if Belushi Women and Kids have been forced to
close their doors in the last couple of weeks. We're at risk of the
place becoming a shopping ghost town full of vacant units.
Mike
Posted Thursday, October 18, 2007
What the hell are the planners on? I remember, it was about 6
years ago. Rumbush Lane, Tythe Barn Lane, all were great through routes
from Earlswood through to Shirley. What's happened now? I can't find my
way around anywhere without getting lost in the labyrinth that is
Dickens Heath. I understand that you want to keep traffic away, but
please, where are the signs telling you where to go to bypass this
artificial village?
Simon Dean
Posted Monday, October 8, 2007
I have a great business opportunity idea for someone in Dickens
Heath! Why not open a restaurant? You won't have much competition as
the restaurants already open leave a lot to be desired. Is it only our
family who think that apart from Giovanni's and a few dishes on Morton's
menu the other restaurants are just rubbish. Even the chip shop was
rubbish. We have now tried all the food establishments in Dickens Heath
- but won't be going back to any of them.
Like to eat out family
Posted Monday, June 25, 2007
In response to Jon Benshaw's post, there are a few local gyms -
two David Lloyd Leisure centres in Cranmore Boulevard and Monkspath.
There is also Living Well in Widney Manor, and Virgin Active on the
Blythe Park business park at the junction of M42 and A34.
Hope this helps
Ed
Posted Monday, June 18, 2007
I am a 24 yr old
man who is relocating to Dickens heath in July living with my 2 good
friends. I liked the look of the place when I saw it but am shocked that
there is no local gym. I know me and my friends would love a gym and
would use it regularly.
Jon
Belshaw
Posted Monday, February 26, 2007
I have only
lived in the village for a short time. I see positives and negative
throughout. Their seems to me an over building in the area (or over
subscription) one of the two. This to me seems the on-coming threat,
especially when one as to rely so much on a vehicle here. New town, new
problems but this town is for the most part wonderful to live here. The
social structure of where i was living was so fractured because of
common offences by bored and reckless youths. I can fully understand
(Nipping things in the bud) but the kids are getting bad press and you
need to let them be. If you want reality then live in the community of
Castle Vale or even Minworth, Falcon lodge, smiths wood, Chelmsley Wood
or worse Lindhurst estate and count yourselves lucky that you have a job
to which to springboard from (because the majority of people are
struggling to meet demands)
Roy Simon Cattell
Posted Thursday, February 1, 2007
I agree
with nick, i got told to leave waterside as well, it sucks. Its there to
be played in, not protected. Although i do think chavs and that wreck it
a bit lol but that's just me. please reply, c ya!
Rhys
Posted Monday, January 29, 2007
We are
too 15 year old girls living in dickens heath and would like to say to
all the people that complain about the youths that we do not have any
where else to go as there are not any bus services to go any where else.
We are currently part of a youth club committee service trying to find
activities for teenagers but we need more funding. We do not do any body
any harm if we do walk around anyway. And the security guards are nice!!
thank-you
Em n Mel x
Posted Monday, January 22, 2007
Hi yes
Nik that's a fair comment about there being no facilities for the youth of
dickens heath. although if i gym was made within walking distance that
would still not solve the problem of there being nothing to do. this is
due to the fact that the young people would not be interested in a gym.
I'm one of the teenagers living in dickens heath and i find that there is
nothing for us and we have to travel to far to Shirley and Solihull and
in the winter with less light at night it is unsafe to travel therefore
i believe that some think needs to be done about this problem. There is
only one solution to boredom at the moment which is the weekly youth
group which runs on a Thursday which is attracting to many kids from
outside the area and destroying what we have been privileged to be
given. I'm willing to stand up for the local youth and run project's to
help raise money for the local youth community. To improve the area for
younger kids of today and of kids to come. if anyone is interested in
helping or giving some ideas on how we could do this then i can be
contacted on email, send all your suggestions
Callum
Posted Monday, January 1, 2007
Would just
like to warn people to be extra vigilant in their security as a person
was recently disturbed scoping out our house from our back garden.
Thankfully, a neighbour, returning from work (late shift) saw him/her
and shouted out; so please make sure all your windows and doors are
locked.
Pip
There are lots more comments dating back to
2004 Click Here if you want to read them
Solihull Council now has a page dedicated to Dickens Heath, you can find
it at:
www.solihull.gov.uk
Local Organisations...
Medical Centre
Dickens Heath Medical Centre is situated in the Village Centre, between
the Library and the Village Hall.
There are five doctors, two nurses and attached health visitors and
midwife. It is open every weekday with appointments from 8.10 am to 6.00
pm. For registration details, internet appointment booking and
prescription ordering, visit
www.jaceypractice.co.uk | Telephone: 0121 744 9393
Dickens Heath Village Church
"A village church for the 21st Century: friendly, informal, real life"
expresses the best of what the newly established DHVC seeks to be. Firmly
planted in the village with a contemporary and casual style of worship,
we're eager to be a people who credibly live the Christian message.
www.dickensheathchurch.org.uk
JNK Wado Ryu Karate
Freestyle sport karate for all ages, great for fitness and fun.
Tidbury Green School, Dickens Heath Road, Solihull.
Tuesdays 7-8.30 |
Thursdays 6-7.30 and 7.30-9.00
emailaddress: peter@green11.freeserve.co.uk
Dickens Heath W.I.
0121 430 4427
Web Links...
Hockley Heath
Parish Council
Parkridge
Homes Village Centre
Photographs of
Dickens Heath
Dickens Heath Village Church
Dickens Heath Village Concept
Dickens
Heath Library
Mortons Bar
Redrow Homes
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