SCC has taken a decision to move to a county-wide service for carers to be funded by cutting the funding of nine local carer support groups including Carers of Epsom, which has been supporting carers in E&E since 1988. As a result of that cut in funding Carers of Epsom Read more…
Speed and Red Light Cameras along the A240 Firstly some good news. The two speed and red light cameras on the A240 Kingston Road at the junction of Bradford Drive and Stoneleigh Park Road have been replaced by a new “Red Speed” digital speed camera system. It means that it Read more…
In a bid to save money Surrey County Council is following a number of other councils and turning off about half of its street lights overnight. The announcement has been made, but which lights will be switched off has yet to be determined. For the five hours between midnight and Read more…
A row has broken out about the decision by Surrey Highways (SCC) to spend £77,000 on a relatively unused footpath as a part of the much publicised SCC plan to improve pavements with high footfall and which are near to shops, hospitals and public buildings. SCC’s Pavement Project Horizon programme Read more…
Surrey County Council news – Epsom and Ewell. Pavement Repairs SCC has announced a £20million scheme of pavement repairs over the next five years. This is a welcome increase in funding as previously – and excluding patching and maintenance repairs – only about £1 million was allocated to the improvement Read more…
In April an article in the Observer cited Epsom as a top performer in increasing its town centre footfall. The article described evidence from analysts at Ipsos Retail Performance noting: “According to Ipsos’s retail traffic index, overall footfall was down 0.9% in the first quarter of 2016 compared with the Read more…