Tina Thorburn, from the county council’s highways team, provided the latest in a series of regularvideo updates on the latest work taking place on Surrey’s roads. She focused on a scheme to install a toucan crossing for pedestrians and cyclists across the A217 Brighton Road, work on part of the same road to apply a new surface to help prevent vehicles skidding and the Pavement Horizon work taking place in Normandy. She also gave updates on the Read more…
Green Flag Award for Ewell Court Park In July four green spaces within Epsom and Ewell, including Ewell Court Park, were recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in the world. The Green Flag Awards Scheme is run by the environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, under licence from the Department of Communities and Local Government. This international Green Flag award, now into its third decade, is a sign to Read more…
Entry into the Bradford Drive Estate Many residents who live in the Bradford Drive estate (off the A240 Kingston Road) will have witnessed at least one driver turning left into the estate at the traffic lights. Of course the entry into Bradford Drive is via the slip road just before those traffic lights, and the traffic lights are for exiting the estate only. There are no recorded accidents at this exit, but this is largely Read more…
Epsom Post Office The sudden closure of the Epsom town centre post office in January came as surprise to residents and was a major loss to the town centre causing a great deal of inconvenience to many people. Residents’ Association borough councillors made an offer to the Post Office to house a post office in the Town Hall on a temporary basis, and as soon as the Post Office had found a postmaster/postmistress and completed Read more…
County Notes from County Councillors John Beckett and Eber Kington Cuts to local highway funding In the last edition of the Resident we wrote about the cut of 78% in the Local Committee’s highway funding budget from £355k to £77K, and the effect this is having on our ability to respond to local needs. At the June meeting of the Local Committee Eber proposed that a letter be written to SCC’s Cabinet Member for Highways Read more…
Your vote matters: please use it on 4 May – The biggest day in the county council calendar is next Thursday (4 May) when the people of Surrey go to the polls to elect a new county council for a four-year term. All 81 seats (which are called electoral divisions in county areas) are being contested by a total of 381 candidates. One guaranteed outcome of the elections, whatever the results, is that there will Read more…
“My key concern is the total lack of openness and transparency in the budget process, contradicting the public commitment to openness and transparency made by the Leader of SCC. With no notice, or discussion we were asked to vote on effectively an unseen budget requiring significant additional cuts to vital services following the announcement the budget increase was to be cut from 15% to 4.99%, thereby avoiding a potentially politically damaging referendum. As councillors congratulated Read more…
20,000 respond to Boundary Commission consultation The Boundary Commission for England has announced it has published the representations it received to its consultation on proposed changes to Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the south-east. The Commission received nearly 20,000 responses and is publishing them to allow the wider public to comment on them during the statutory four-week period, ending on 27 March 2017. All representations have been published on their website at www.bce2018.org.uk, where you can Read more…
Changes to when you can call Surrey County Council From 8 April Surrey County Council’s contact centre hours are changing. Residents can phone with a general enquiry anytime between 9am to 5pm weekdays. For calls about adult social care, lines will still be open from 8am to 6pm weekdays and for calls about adult learning, lines will remain open 8.30am – 6pm. Residents will no longer be able to call the contact centre about library Read more…
From Monday (6 March) the county council will be encouraging residents to register to vote in its elections on Thursday 4 May. The elections are an opportunity for people to have their say on which local councillor they would like to represent them. In order to vote, residents need to be registered by Thursday 13 April.