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Open opportunities to get involved

Sandwell Council’s Draft Air Quality Action Plan Consultation Survey

Sandwell Council wants to hear your views about our draft Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP). Improving air quality is vital to protecting public health and the environment in Sandwell. Air pollutants such as Nitrogen Dioxide and fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) pose serious risks to health, particularly to vulnerable groups like children and older adults, leading to poorer health outcomes and increased mortality. As a local authority, we have a legal responsibility...

Closes 21 September 2025

Current and Future Services for Over 55s

Whether we like to think about it or not, as we reach 55 and over we need to start to think about what support will keep us, and the people around us, mobile, active and healthy in order to live independently for as long as possible. This survey looks at some of these issues. If you need help completing the survey, you can ask a family member or friend or contact ASC_coproduction@sandwell.gov.uk Please get in touch by 26 th September. The survey should take around 10...

Closes 26 September 2025
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Closed consultations and engagement

Issues we've asked you about previously

Sandwell Design Code

We are excited to announce that Sandwell Council has started work on developing a Design Code. A Design Code is a planning document that includes a set of design requirements for the physical development of an area. It will include a review and replacement of our existing Residential Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document. National Government requires all local authorities to establish design codes, and Sandwell is looking to develop a best practice borough-wide example. The...

Closed 15 September 2025

Wednesbury Town Centre Public Realm and Urban Greening Improvements: Your Views

As part of the Wednesbury Levelling Up Partnership, Sandwell Council is inviting residents, businesses, and community groups to have their say on the public realm work that has been completed in Wednesbury Town Centre. This will help us to understand the impact of the work completed to date. The public realm is the space between buildings that is open and accessible to everyone. T he work undertaken as part of this project has aimed to make Wednesbury town centre more inviting and...

Closed 31 August 2025

Electric Vehicle Charging Consultation

We are consulting residents on a proposed location for an Electric Vehicle Charger. The installed charger will be 7 kw able to provide a charger throughout the day or overnight. The Location is shown below: Milcote Road

Closed 22 August 2025
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Your impact

Outcomes of issues we have asked you about previously. See all outcomes

We asked

Sandwell Council invited representations between 28 April and 9 June 2025 on three Main Modifications to the Sandwell Local Plan proposed by the Council. 

  1. The proposed allocation of part of Rowley Regis Golf Course, Tippity Green, Rowley Regis, B66 9EJ for housing development. 
  2. Changes to the wording of Policy SCC4 – Embodied Carbon and Waste.
  3. The removal of Hill House Farm as a potential Habitat Bank for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and its replacement with Ray Hall Pastoral Land. 

You said

Comments were made on the soundness and legal compliance of the proposed Main Modifications.

We did

The proposed Main Modifications, supporting evidence and responses made to the consultation have been submitted to the Independent Planning Inspector appointed to examine the Sandwell Local Plan. The Inspector will decide whether to incorporate the Main Modifications into the Local Plan during the examination process.

To follow the examination of the Local Plan please visit https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/localplanexamination 

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