14 September 2023, Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 8EF Residents’ Association County Councillor Eber Kington has written to Cabinet Member County Councillor Denise Turner Stewart expressing concerns over her public statement on the HM Inspection Report of the Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, calling on her to Read more…
This week SCC announced a seven-year contract worth £96.5 million, with private company Marston Holdings Ltd, for parking and traffic enforcement. In April, SCC will be centralising parking enforcement, a service which currently is managed by Surrey’s Borough and District on behalf of the County. The accompanying comments to the Read more…
Vanity Project that Surrey Residents Cannot Afford
AS THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS BITES, RA-INDEPENDENT COUNCILLORS PROPOSE REFOCUSING YOUR FUND SURREY’S £100 MILLION TO HELP THOSE WHO ARE LEFT BEHIND In 2021 conservative County Councillor Mark Nuti announced that there was £100 million available for local communities and voluntary groups to bid for funding for local projects. Read more…
Financial Leadership “Inefficient and Inept”
In the emailed autumn edition of the Courtier I alerted residents to the Governments latest proposals on house building targets, set for councils across the country. The South East of England is being penalised with housing building targets set much higher than the independent Office of National statistics (ONS) says Read more…
Unfortunately a High Court ruling on a quite separate case means that EEBC’s Injunction forbidding unauthorised encampments and/or the depositing of waste on 57 sites within Epsom and Ewell is no longer in force. However there is an opportunity to challenge the ruling and, jointly with other councils, the Borough Read more…
Government push to increase digital connectivity now means that both private land owners and local councils have very limited options to refuse permission
In an extraordinary claim, two Epsom based Conservative Surrey County Councillors stated in a political leaflet distributed to residents in November that the long queues to access SCC’s Community Recycling Centre was not the fault of SCC at all, but of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council’s weekly recycling service and Read more…