Prudential Ride London

Good morning,

Thank you to those that attended last Thursday’s RideLondon debrief session. It was a very helpful session for us, particularly as we start to look ahead to 2015’s event. If you have any further feedback please do send through to me.

As advised, the date for next year’s event is Sunday 2 August 2015 in Surrey. With plans still at a very early stage we will be cancelling the Thursday 27 November meeting at Leatherhead theatre. A meeting will be set up in the new year to provide a full event update.

Kind regards,

James

James Taylor | Engagement Manager | Prudential RideLondon | www.PrudentialRideLondon.co.uk

Tel: 0207 902 0200 ext. 203 | jamest@ridelondon.co.uk
London & Surrey Cycling Partnership | 115 Southwark Street | London | SE1 0JF | United Kingdom

Mole Valley - New Survey

MOLE VALLEY HAVE YOUR SAY

Your invitation to take part

I am pleased to let you know that we have launched an important consultation that will help determine Mole Valley District Council’s priorities for the coming years and help set the Council’s budget.

Like all local authorities, Mole Valley District Council responds to the changing nature of local government.  We are seeking your views on a wide range of issues where we have an influencing role as well as on the services that we deliver directly.

The survey is quick and easy to complete.  It will only take about 10 minutes of your time and, if you enter into our prize draw, you could win a family ticket for four to the Christmas pantomime at Dorking Halls.

You can complete this survey online at www.molevalley.gov.uk.  Please note that the closing date is 30^th November 2014.

Your views are important to us.  I do hope you will take this opportunity to make your voice heard by taking part in this survey.

Please do forward this email to anyone you think may also be interested in taking part.

Best wishes

Cllr Simon Ling

Executive Member for Finance and Corporate Services

Mole Valley District Council

Surrey Police - Trick or Treat

Good afternoon

Mole Valley has a limited supply of no trick or treat A5 notices which you can display by your front door or window if you do not wish to be disturbed.
If you would like one of these notices please email molevalley@surrey.pnn.police.uk
Please include your name, address and the number of leaflets you require

Kind regards
Tara Temple

Hello … Caroline and all the LRA members

I hope you will enjoy this message and forward it on …

You will probably have seen some posters around Leatherhead for this professional comedy coming to our town next week - as part of the final week of the Arts Alive Festival 2014.  Local resident member Graham Pountney is in it and directs it … as a new venture, reviving professional theatre in Leatherhead, we need your support.   I guarantee you will have a wonderful evening, for the price of a main course in a local restaurant!

The Brighton Argus review said: “… a first class production … an excellent interpretation of the text alongside highly entertaining physical theatre … generously allowing the comedy to spark within the relationships”. 

This is my personal invitation … Please do come and relish a performance, and alert/encourage your friends & neighbours to see this production of Alan Ayckbourn’s Taking Steps – Flyer attached.  It would be SO good to see everyone again!  [There’s no need to be put off by it being in the Leisure Centre: the play is in-the-round, so we have created a complete theatre and the ambiance is terrific!]

TheatreReviver! is a brand new professional theatre company.  It aims to revive home-grown touring theatre and theatre-going in our local community, by performing great plays and comedies with “heart”  using local talent on-stage and behind the scenes. Do come and see this amazing farce, in Leatherhead this month from October 27^th to 31^st . Take steps to see it if you like laughing!

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

I look forward to welcoming you to the show!

Box office Tel:   01372 377674

REVIEW: http://theatremoonreview.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/taking-steps-emporium.html

Graham Pountney

Producer/Director

ScreenTest Productions

Vectis House

Elm Drive

Leatherhead

Surrey KT22 8EX

Tel:   01372 372429

Mob: 07812 047195

contact@screentestproductions.com

You are invited to CHIP in your vision for Pippbrook House on Tuesday 28th October 7.30 at Burgundy & Black

You may have heard that Pippbrook House, the old library and before that council offices for DUDC and MVDC, is to be sold. It has not been properly maintained and needs money to be invested in repairs before it can even be declared safe.

WE BELIEVE IT IS DOABLE!

You may not care particularly about this. You may feel if the council can get a good price for it, then let it go.

Or, like a growing group of local folk (front page of the Dorking Advertiser 3 weeks ago see attached) you may feel that this is something worth keeping, indeed cherishing.

So what can you do to support this idea?

At this early stage please register your support by going onto the CHIP Facebook page (Community Hub In Pippbrook) or emailing me by return to add your name to the rapidly growing list to say quite simply (or you can add complicated stuff if you like) :

I would like to be kept in touch with developments.

We have a vision and it involves retaining the building, both for local use and as a centre of excellence, for community projects including arts, music, drama, film, business, sports, health and wellbeing (to name but a few) with a much wider reach towards London and throughout the south east, thus bringing in valuable footfall and the kudos and profile that this town richly deserves.

So, we need YOU. We need your ideas, your expertise, your energy and your passion for all that is Dorking. Get in touch in whatever way suits you to register yourself as actively interested in CHIP and please spread the word, especially if you know somebody who has an area of expertise that you know we will need especially at this early stage people who are knowledgeable about, and well rehearsed in, applying for grants.

Tuesday 28^th October 7.30 at Burgundy & Black (independent coffee shop at the bottom of St Martin’s Walk) to share further ideas, expertise, experience and ideas before we have an official launch!

For further information (website pending!) call Sally Elias on 07787 566 212, Roger Jones on 07770 887834, Belinda  Hard on 07941 141575.

Valete!

Just to say to those who have followed my postings since April 2009 "Good-bye!" The LRA Blog is now a bulletin-board for the Association and, I feel, is no longer an appropriate place for a maverick to be posting individual opinions.

I have, therefore, set up my own Blog and will endeavour to post there at least once each week.

Valete!

PS: Don't forget the litter pick on the 25th October - see the posting below.

   

   Leatherhead Together

Join our community

 Giant litter pick

      Saturday Oct 25th

It's our rubbish - Let's pick it up!

    Wherever you are in the Mole Valley

   with friends, family, neighbours, or solo

       please support the LRA Litter Pick

    Gloves & litter pickers provided. Meet, The Institute 2 pm

          or clean up a patch near you

  Great prizes for 3 'best action' photos (one per person)

  Send them by Oct 31st to The LRA,  c/- The Institute, High St

  Leatherhead KT22 8AH    or email: litterphotos@thecargills.org

  subject line 'litterphotos' (add your name address phone & email)

   This is Phase One of a five phase litter campaign initiated by the LRA

  working with many groups in the Mole Valley For info ph 01372 370 091

 

Anti Litter Initiative

The Leatherhead Residents Association(LRA) has  launched an anti litter campaign this autumn to continue through  2015.  This is in response to an outcry concerning the amount of litter and dog fouling to which local people are exposed during their town and country pursuits.  When the call for action came, we became aware that both SCC and MVDC have put litter and waste issues high on their list of priorities for Autumn 2014/2015.

The five phase LRA campaign will be carried out in conjunction with MVDC and representatives from organisations throughout Leatherhead:

First Phase

A giant litter pick in scheduled for 25 October-This will combine the forces of Leatherhead volunteers, targeting our wooded areas, riverside, and verges of roads on the fringes of Leatherhead leading into the town centre. We are encouraging those who cannot participate in the organised litter pick to spend a half hour on the 25^th clearing an area near  their own home. We will be working with the support of MVDC who will provide collection of rubbish, pickers, gloves and sacks.   

Second Phase

In order to increase awareness of the massive problem litter causes to our planet and in light of the statistic that predicts that our landfills will be full by 2018, we will seek access to local schools via their art classes and expose the problem to fresh, young minds.  A short motivational film or slide presentation or the personal and social education programme carried out in all schools could be used to inspire the two art projects below.

A challenge will be given  to students to become involved in two kinds of art projects-

•   Anti litter poster art that encourages awareness and change of behaviour, and

•   Works of art made from recycled packaging and paper students collect during the Christmas season  (November or early December) The focus here is packaging and the waste it creates and over-packaging.

Third Phase

Art workshops/classes giving students the opportunity to turn their ideas into art, guided by professional artists or their teachers.

(Late January-February-March)

Fourth Phase

Selection of the best artwork from all schools to become a part of a travelling Anti Litter display. 

The display should inform and challenge the viewer to seriously consider changes in behaviour.

The display could spend time at each school, an empty High Street shop, or the Swan Centre.  (April-May)

Fifth Phase

Another Autumn litter pick (2015) to compare the quantity of litter in the areas targeted in 2014.  This is in way of noting the impact of the campaign.  Our neighbouring community, Fetcham, report to have noticed substantial reductions in successive litter picks over the years. Teazle Wood has had similar results.  Of course, we hope for the same.

Dismayed

Last time I posted, I said I would henceforth confine my comments to Streetlife.  However, after reading with dismay the Leatherhead Residents' Association article in the September issue of the Ashtead & Leatherhead Local, I feel I had better write here rather than to a wider public on Streetlife.

In the article,  the Vice-Chairman writes: "Most responsible drivers respect the need for limiting the parking in narrow streets."  That, in my opinion, is utter tosh.  The Vice-Chairman obviously does not live near enough to the Station to be inconvenienced by commuters.

In July 2010 I write on the LRA Blog: "A month or so back, most residents in the road, a cul-de-sac, went for three weeks without any bin collection simply because the bin lorry was unable to squeeze between the cars parked by commuters on both sides of the road!" Inconsiderate parking had prevented access to bin lorries for three weeks and it was only the initiative of a resident putting up an unofficial "No Parking" sign that allowed the bins to be emptied. See:
http://lrassociation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/too-much-from-piecemeal-and-incoherent.html
http://lrassociation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/what-are-we-to-do.html
http://lrassociation.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/today-delivery-lorry-tomorrow-ambulance.html
http://lrassociation.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/here-we-go-again.html

At the time those posts were made, the Vice-Chairman was Chairman of the LRA.  Did he not read any of those posts?   Did he not understand them?

When I first moved into this cul-de-sac twenty-two years ago, most drivers did indeed respect the need for limited parking in this narrow street and parking was (almost) entirely restricted to one side. But over the past decade things changed and more and more parking took place on both sides of the road, just as it still does during the week on Park Rise, making that road difficult to drive along.  It has taken a long campaign to get Surrey County Council to restrict parking in our narrow street.  The Vice-Chairman asks whether we need fines to control parking.  Sadly the experience of many of us is that we do.

The article seems to advocating a laissez-faire approach to on-street parking.  Is this the policy of the LRA?  If it is and this becomes known, then I fear the LRA will lose membership not only in my street but in the many that over the years have been plagued with parking problems.  If it is not LRA policy, then what is it doing in the Ashtead & Leatherhead Local with the 'Vice Chairman of the LRA' appended to it?

The bit below the article invites people to join the LRA.  Surely the LRA article ought to encouraging people to do that.  Quite frankly, if I was undecided and considering joining, this article would dissuade me.

AGENDA FOR LRA MEETING ON 1st SEPTEMBER

AGENDA for LRA Meeting on 1^st Sept 2014 at the INSTITUTE

In the Abraham Dixon Hall at 7.30, preceded by coffee or tea at 7.00.

Short address by the Chairman covering future plans, activities, membership and requests for information

1 Apologies:   Fran Smith

2. Minutes August 2014 for approval, linked here.

3. Matters arising:  None

4. Reports:

            1.The Environment Chairman will explain her ideas for the future

            2. The Planning Committee’s report is attached.   (It will not be read out).

            3. Forward Planning Group: For info only:  Together with many other local

                groups, HC is   to meet with MV Chief Executive Officer, Ms.Yvonne Rees,

                on 16 Sept. to discuss the    hopes and achievements of the whole area.  

               (CB will, unfortunately, be on holiday).  

5. And now for our talk by Mr. Peter Mills, the MV Historic Environment Officer.

6. The next Open Meeting will be Monday, Nov. 3 at 7.30  (unless advised differently) in G6 of the Institute.

BLOCKED DRAINS IN RANDALLS ROAD

The following is from Tim Hall who has been very much on the case for some months:

"Verbal reports from the County Jetter Crew say that
1. They have discovered a blocked Thames Water Pipe between Randalls Way and the drain that was pouring out water.   It had roots in it and may have partly collapsed.   This info has been passed on to Thames Water for further action, although, in the mean time,  the drain had stopped pouring water.   This indicates that the limited clearing by the Jetter may have afforded temporary relief.

2. Pipes and gullies near the railway bridge have been cleared and appear to be working better now.   (25/07/14).   However, there are questions about a Thames Soakaway which need to be followed up when we get the technical report and pictures.

3. They will be returning to do the area from Randalls Way to Springfield Drive in the near future.

4. Written technical reports are awaited.

Open Committee Meeting on Monday 4th August at 7.30 in G6 of the Leatherhead Institute

This is to be an "Open Committee Meeting," so members may wish to come with written versions of any problems they are facing and then present them orally to those present.      This may be particularly pertinent given the decisions that our local MVDC is going to have to make in the near future in connection with C2C* and Plan L.    We shall hold other meetings in this Open Committee format and are also planning a general meeting for the whole area some time in September.   However, it is not only problems which can be voiced but also we would especially welcome fresh ideas for the town and its surrounding highways and rail system.

*C2C = a large report on the area between London and the coast, i.e. Coast to Capital.    Plan L refers to Leatherhead, but as yet there is no clearly defined future project.

Agenda for Open Committee Meeting on 4^th August2014

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Extra insert: Issues raised by non-committee members attending, which, when heard and understood, can be passed on to the appropriate sub-c. chair for discussion after meeting.   No. 1:   Overgrown path at end of Homelands   No. 2:  Why not lay sound absorbent tarmac on the by-pass?   (from Mr. R. Baddaert)

Apologies for absence, so far, 

Cllr Dixon and Cllr Ashton, Roger Hardwick, Phillipa Shimmin

Minutes of the meeting held on 2 June 2014

Presentation for approval plus my ideas for circulating Minutes.   (to be explained)

Matters arising.

Terms of reference – (Possibly the final check, but could be postponed until the Closed Meeing in October)

Future meetings, types of, i.e. Open Meeting with Speaker, Open Committee meeting like 4^th August(could have a Speaker in an explanatory role) and Closed Committee meeting.

Content of Newsletter and future ideas for it.   CB to describe.

Increase in Subs and Membership list.   Discussion only at this point.

HC has volunteered to write the article for A &LL, on parking  (N. Street and Highlands Rd)

Correspondence

Reports: 

Planning

Environment

Forward Planning

Membership and Publicity

Highways:  (cycle path)

Outside meetings attended

BLeAF, 18th July, report sent round by email (CB/HC)

LAP on 24^th July (CA or HP or HC))

Litter Campaign on 30^th July (CB )

Nick Gray on 16^th July (HC)

Mr. Goldfinch with HC

Future meetings (outside LRA):

16^th Sept HC with many other RAs and Yvonne Rees

Next LRA meeting:  Open Meeting with Mr. Peter Mills as speaker on 1^st September at 7 pm - coffee first!

Raffle Prizes drawn on Monday 9 June 2014

The Open Gardens on Sunday 8th June gave us all the opportunity to win some excellent Raffle prizes.    Lucky winners are listed below

                                                 

A special "Thank You" to Peter Snell of Barton's Bookshop for selling the tickets to the gardens and to those who donated the prizes

Laura and Tony* who won a Voucher for a family visit to Polesdon Lacey

 Anne and Peter* who won Kew Garden Orchid hand and body lotion

 Diana Carr* who won Elizabeth Arden body products

 Caroline Brown * who won a bottle of champagne

 D. Gale* who won a bottle of wine

 Peter Humphreys* who won a bottle of Denbies Surrey Gold Wine

  Liz Shepperd* who won 2 cinema tickets at the Leatherhead Theatre

  Edmund Morgan-Warren (Great Bookham) who won the small planter

  Mary (nee Price) and Glyn Bursey* who won the large planter

  Martin and Julie West*  who won the Meal/wine at the Shy Horse, Chessington

  Marjorie Creasy* who won the Yellow Calla Lily

   Elizabeth Watson (Dorking) who won the luxury choclates.

  *(Leatherhead)

       

Open Gardens Raffle Prizes

The Open Gardens on Sunday 8th June gave us all the opportunity to win some excellent raffle prizes.    Listed below are the lucky winners.
A special "thank you" to Peter Snell of Barton's Bookshop for selling the tickets to the gardens and also to our generous prize donors.

Laura and Tony* won a Voucher for a Family Visit to Polesdon Lacey
Anne and Peter* won some Kew Garden Orchid Hand and body lotion
Diana Carr* won some Elizabeth Arden body products
Caroline Brown* won a bottle of champagne
D. Gale* won a bottle of wine
Peter Humphreys* won some Denbies Surrey Gold Wine
Liz Shepperd* won two cinerma tickets at Leatherhead Theatre
Edmund Morgan-Warren (Great Bookham) won the small planter
Mary (nee Price) and Glyn Bursey* won the large planter
Martin ad Julie West* won the Meal/Wine at the Shy Horse, Chessington
Marjorie Creasy* won the Yellow Calla Lily
Elizabeth Watson (Dorking) won the Luxury Chocolates.

*(Leatherhead).

Mole Valley Housing & Traveller Sites Plan (Ashtead)

CONSULTATION ON ASHTEAD COMMUNITY VISION GREEN BELT BOUNDARY REVIEW AND SITE ASSESSMENTS: 9 JUNE TO 21 JULY 2014

I am writing to invite your views on the following two documents which have been prepared by Ashtead Community Vision and submitted to Mole Valley DC (MVDC) for consideration:

• Ashtead Green Belt Boundary Review February 2014; and
• Ashtead Site Assessments May 2014.

Ashtead Community Vision (ACV) is the working group for Ashtead Neighbourhood Forum, which was established in July 2013. The Neighbourhood Forum is tasked with preparing a Neighbourhood Development Plan for the Ashtead area, under the powers created by the Localism Act 2011.

The Ashtead Neighbourhood Plan is being prepared under the strategic policy framework set out in Mole Valley’s Core Strategy adopted October 2009. The Core Strategy commits MVDC to a review of Green Belt boundaries, in order to meet the District’s housing requirements to 2026.

The decision about which areas of the Green Belt may be released to meet housing needs rests with Mole Valley DC and will be progressed through preparation of the Housing and Traveller Sites Plan. However, as part of the Neighbourhood Planning process, and in the spirit of localism, ACV took on responsibility for undertaking the Green Belt Boundary Review within the Ashtead neighbourhood area.  They have also appraised a number of specific sites which have been proposed by landowners and developers as potential housing site allocations. Council officers have been working closely with ACV to ensure that their methodology matches that followed by Mole Valley DC, elsewhere in the District.

As a consultee on planning policy issues in Mole Valley, you will have received notification of the first stage of public consultation on the Housing and Travellers Sites Plan, which took place between 10 January and 9 March 2014. However, that consultation did not cover the Ashtead area, because ACV’s work was still in progress.

ACV have now submitted their completed Green Belt Boundary Review and Site Assessments to MVDC. I am therefore writing to invite your views on both documents.  Copies are enclosed with the electronic version of this letter. You can also download them from www.molevalley.gov.uk/localplans: please click on “Neighbourhood Planning in Mole Valley” and scroll down to the bottom of the page.

Comments should be forwarded by email to planning.policy@molevalley.gov.uk or by post to the Planning Policy Team, Mole Valley District Council, Pippbrook, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1SJ.

Please submit your comments by 4pm on Monday 21 July 2014.

Your comments will be considered as part of the process of integrating ACV’s work into the evidence base for the Housing and Traveller Sites Plan.  As it progresses, the Plan will cover the whole District, including Ashtead and other NDP areas.  MVDC is working towards publication of a pre-submission draft early in 2015.

Mole Valley Housing & Traveller Sites Plan

Developers proposals for new homes in Mole Valley – further consultation.

In January this year we wrote to all residents in Mole Valley to let them know that the District Council is preparing a document called the Housing and Traveller Sites Plan which will identify land on which new homes could be built in the future.

We explained that between January and March, local residents could comment on the sites that landowners and developers had suggested should be included in this Plan.  We received over eight thousand comments from over three thousand individuals and organisations.

The responses to the consultation included requests by several landowners asking that MVDC consider their site in addition to those in the Consultation Document. These latest sites to have been suggested have now been published in the Housing and Traveller Sites Plan: Additional Sites - Supplementary Consultation Document.

We are e-mailing you because you have responded to a previous opportunity to comment on MVDC’s plans for new homes.

MVDC is now in the process of considering these additional sites and would like to provide you with the opportunity to comment on them and help it to decide if any are suitable for development and therefore inclusion in the Plan.

If you do want to let us have your views, they should be submitted in writing, by email or on-line by 21^st July 2014. They should relate only to the sites in the current Consultation Document as this is not an opportunity to comment on sites in the previous Consultation Document.

The consultation document and supporting information can be viewed on line at http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=16351   or by following the links from the Home page . Alternatively, you can see all the documentation at the Council Offices in Pippbrook in Dorking, the Leatherhead HelpShop or in local libraries.   For further information please phone us on 01306 879281.

Agenda for Open Meeting 2 June 2014 at the Letherhead Institute

SLIGHT AMENDMENT:  At the suggestion of Mr. Collier, at 8.00 we shall close the meeting and walk up to St. John's School where we will be met at the former Chapel at 8.15 and, after an explanation of the changes there, move on to their multi-media studio where the talk proper will take place.

1. Apologies:  Cllrs. Shimmin and Dickson.

2. Minutes of the last Open Meeting, i.e. February 3rd.  All on the Website, but I do have some spare copies.

3. Matters arising
        a. A local Flood Forum has been/is being set up by Tim Hall.
            .
4. Correspondence
        a.  A couple from Mr. Roland McKinney,    questioning the number of homes available for       development over the next 5 years.
        b. A letter forwarded by Mr. and Mrs. Moyer from Mr. Mark Ambrose about the dreadful water leaks/flows in Randalls Road
        c. A letter forwarded by a Committee member from people who sit outside restaurants, pubs etc in the
High Street.   They compalin about a. speeding, b. inconsiderate parking and c. parking too early.

5. Sub-committee reports  (only outstanding items only, please)
        a. Planning - the care home mooted for Highlands Avenue  off the Headley Road
        b. Environment - the Open Gardens will be "open" next Sunday, 8th June.
        c. Highways
        d. Membership and publicity, future speakers
        e. Forward planning, Plan L etc.

6. Meetings attended.
        a. The BleAF, from which I will just mention a couple of things.

7. Future Action
        a. Ideas for the next A&L Local?   Also, the Newsletter needs to be started, so, articles, please.

8. Our invited speaker, Mr. Michael Collier of St. John's School where changes and improvements have been being made thick and fast.

This is and always has been a public interest case.

Possibly some readers of this Blog have wondered why Fulvius has remained silent on the latest twist in the Cherkley Court saga.   The simple reason is that I was out of the country when the Appeal Court judgment was given; and since my return I have been sorting out things and contributing to the debate on Streetlife (as, no doubt, some of you will have seen).

Lord Justice Richards wrote "I should say at once that Haddon-Cave J examined the case with great thoroughness and style", and then proceeded to 'respectfully' point out that Haddon-Cave J was wrong on practically every matter!

I find it incomprehensible how a judge, serving on the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of England and Wales, who examined a case with thoroughness could have got everything wrong - especially as Martin Edwards, a specialist planning barrister, and John Martin, a planning law consultant, took quite the opposite view in an article in the Estates Gazette (21st September, 2013) where they also agreed that the "local authority that approved the golf course neglected a series of key considerations in the process."

Their article concluded:
"It is difficult to summarise a 209-paragraph judgment and it is worthy of reading in full.  It is one of the best planning judgments for a long time, partly due to the issues discussed and partly to the fact that it is entirely readable.  For this judgment, the judge's scorecard should show a 'hole in one'."

Did that specialist planning barrister and that planning law consultant also both get everything wrong? To my simple mind, something does not add up.

This is and always has been a public interest case, not merely about local issues. 

The paragraph in the letter on the back page of last Thursday's Leatherhead Advertiser (LA) beginning "Unfortunately, we are also aware that Cherkley Campaign Ltd may seek to continue the legal process ..." is rank hypocrisy.  Does anyone seriously imagine that if the Appeal Court had overturned, say, just one of Haddon-Cave's findings but maintained the the other two (thus, effectively, keeping the planning permission quashed), the directors of Longshot Cherkley Court Ltd would not be considering appeal to the Supreme Court?  Of course they would - and be shedding no crocodile tears for MVDC's costs.

To say "probably with a view to causing further delay" is, as the four directors know very well, untrue and, presumably, part of a smear campaign.  If recourse is made to the Supreme Court it will be for sound, legal reasons - and they know it.

The paragraph which follows is quite out of order as the settling of costs are part of the judicial process and, as far as I am aware, going forward as one would expect.  The inclusion of the paragraph is, at best, unethical; it is defamatory and possibly libellous.

I repeat: this is a public interest case.  It seems to me that one purpose of the letter on the back page of the LA is to smear Cherkley Campaign and to stop it raising funds or recruiting yet more members.

Finally, it seems to me that Streetlife is now doing what this Blog was once intended to do.  The Blog has, in effect, (apart from my odd postings) become merely a bulletin board, with mainly the webmaster and the secretary posting bulletins.  So I think this may be my last posting here and I'll confine myself Streetlife in future.

Leatherhead Flood Meeting"Home and Community Resilience"

How to mitigate Floods 

Tuesday 29th April 2014

7.00 – 9.00 pm 

at Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY

(Free parking behind Parish Hall, KT22 8BD)

We are very fortunate to have a speaker from the National Flood Forum charity – Heather Shepherd – a sympathetic and knowledgeable expert. She is coming from Shropshire to share her experiences of being flooded several times and what can be done to mitigate further flooding. The talk will be on “Home and Community Resilience”, giving an independent view on insurance issues and flood protection products, the Repair and Renew Grant, Flood Re, as well as how to set up a local Flood Action Group.

Her presentation will be followed by a Question and Answer session. The meeting will be hosted by Tim Hall from Surrey County Council.

Click to see map for parking.

All are welcome.  Please forward these details to anyone who may find it useful.

Mole Valley's Wellbeing Centre Open Day

Dear parish councils and residents’ associations

A week of fun, free activities will take place from 28 April to 2 May at Mole Valley District Council’s Fairfield Centre in Leatherhead. As part this, on Thursday 1 May from 10am to 2pm there is a chance to find out about Mole Valley’s developing Wellbeing Centre, based at the Fairfield Centre.

The Wellbeing Centre will be a hub for easily-accessible information and advice for older residents, particularly those in the early stages of dementia or prior to diagnosis. Information will also be available for carers.

MVDC is working with its partners Surrey County Council, the Alzheimer’s Society, Age UK and the NHS to provide a weekly timetable of sessions which will promote wellbeing and independent living.

I was wondering if you would mind helping to spread the word about the Wellbeing Centre Open Day, perhaps by distributing the attached flyers. (They print two A5s on one A4 sheet.)  Or, if you are unable to print them, I’d be happy to send you a few copies.

Kind regards

Sally

Sally Horsburgh

Communications and Marketing Officer

Mole Valley District Council

Tel: 01306 879269

www.molevalley.gov.uk

Annual General Meeting for the Leatherhead Residents' Association

Agenda for AGM on 14 April 2014 in the Abraham Dixon Hall, Letherhead Institute.

Tea and/or coffee will be served from 7.00 to 7.20.

1. Apologies for absence.  

   

2. Minutes of the 2013 AGM, (on the LRA website and a few hard copies will be available).

3. Matters arising from them.    (Probably Forty Foot Road and Leach Grove woods).

           

4. Chairman’s Annual  Report.

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5. Treasurer’s Report and Statement of Accounts, which will appear as a written statement.*

   

6. Appointment of the auditor, Lindsey Thynne. 

7. Election of officers supervised by the Returning Officer, Councillor Tim Hall.

All/any nominations should be submitted to the Secretary no later than 3 days before the meeting.

            i. Chairman

            ii Vice Chairman

            iii Secretary

            iv Treasurer

            v Committee members 

                                                                                                

8. AOB:   All questions or topics must be notified before the start of the meeting.                     

(5 minute break).

9. Speaker 1,  John Howarth from “Towns Alive” (formerly  “Action for Market Towns”.  

10. Speaker 2,  Anne Haigh, Manager of the Dorking and Leatherhead Citizens’ Advice Bureau.

11. Speaker 3:  Jim Jones , Living Landscapes Officer from Surrey Wildlife Trust.

*Other reports will be displayed on a noticeboard in the hall and can be read during coffee/tea.

Online links here:   Planning Report for 2013-2014

                             Environment Report for 2013-2014