Shocking figures have revealed the extent of the housing crisis in Sandwell with more than 17,000 people facing long waits for a council house. The average wait for a council flat in Sandwell is ...

Average wait for council house in Sandwell is nearly 10 years Sandwell Council had made “serious failings” and “significant improvements” were needed, the regulator said. It is the first ...

This was the same week the Knife Angel statue, which was created using 100,000 confiscated knives as a reminder of the impact of knife crime, was unveiled outside Sandwell Council House in Oldbury as ...

No ward will be unchanged under the proposals, although the only alterations to Great Barr with Yew Tree will be a slight tweak to encompass the whole of Red House Park, and a change of name to ...

Sandwell Council have rolled out their new £150,000 pothole filling machine to help tackle problems with ruts on the ...

Read more: Average wait for council house in Sandwell is nearly 10 years Read more: Sandwell Council spent £2.5m housing homeless after 'unprecedented' rise in demand The council said it would be ...

The average household will also be expected to pay an extra £133 a year for a council house in Sandwell under plans that will see social housing rent increase by 2.7 per cent from April.

The application to convert the home in Cheshire Road, Smethwick, into an eight-bed house of multiple occupation (HMO) was rejected by planners at Sandwell Council over concerns it would add to parking ...

Sandwell Council rejected those plans in 2018 and again in 2021 over ... An earlier plan to convert the former watering hole into a house of multiple occupation (HMO) was approved by the council in ...