Bromsgrove's threatened fairs should be back in the town by September on their traditional site in Market Street. The town's recreation officers were due to recommend to the council that the fairs should be welcomed back after a two-month wrangle of the siting of them. Councillors had made only one condition, that the football clubs which presently used Market Street recreation ground found an alternative site. Fair problems blew up when councillors decided to stop the spring and autumn fairs on the site. The argument reached a climax in March when Jones' fair camped out in protest at the council's decision.

Rubery councillors were to have an on-site meeting with the chairman of the amenities committee to discuss problems on the village's play area. The meeting was to look at the area, which had been described as a mess and a rubbish tip. Cllr David Hancox said Callowbrook open space was fast becoming a dump. Originally the council had arranged to spend £23,000 on work at the site, which was between Brook Road and Rea Avenue, but the figure was slashed to £5,000 because of lack of available funds.

Local vicar, Rev Harold Goddard, was moving to London to give comfort to patients as chaplain of a major cancer hospital. Rev Goddard had lived in Stoke Prior for more than four years and had been vicar to the United Benefice of the parishes of St Michael's, Stoke Prior; St Mary de Wyche, Wychbold and St Michael's, Upton Warren, for the past three years. He was going to work in the Royal Marsden Hospital at the beginning of September where he would be involved with 400 patients and 1,600 staff.

Allotment holders had been given councillors' backing over a fight to stop development on their plots. Members of the working party looking into Bromsgrove District Plan options were to be told the recreation and amenities committee was not in favour of any development at the Round Hill allotment site. At a committee meeting members were told almost 300 residents and allotment holders had signed a petition opposing development at the site.