Olly Wells

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Standing down – May 2012

by admin on 4 April, 2012

As I am sure many of you have noticed in the latest Focus, I am standing down as a councillor for Knaphill.  It has been a real honour to serve residents as councillor in Knaphill for the last four years.  In the next few months I am likely to be moving to London to make […]

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During 2009 Woking Borough Council spent nearly £1 million on expensive consultants.  By 2010 this had risen to nearly £2 million and looks set to be nearly £2 million again in 2011.  This does not in my opinion represent good value for the tax payers in Woking.  I would much rather have seen this money […]

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Lisa Harding for Knaphill

by admin on 26 April, 2011

I wholeheartedly and sincerely wish to encourage residents in Knaphill to vote for Lisa Harding on 5th May. Lisa is possibly the most energetic, dedicated and empathetic candidate I have ever met. She is single minded in her determination to deliver for residents in Knaphill. I have been impressed and possibly put to shame by […]

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A few months back I wrote about my frustration that the Conservative Executive running Woking Borough Council had declined to double the number of parent and child parking spaced in the council operated car parks in the town centre, from the existing 8 to 16, following a recommendation from the Overview and Scrutiny Committee.  Since […]

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Sadly it is really common to see litter on the ground around the bench at the bus stop in Barnby Road.  Yesterday the amount of litter was terrible and I reported it to the local neighbourhood officer at the Council, so that it is quickly cleaned up.  There was too much litter for me to […]

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Brookwood Farm

by admin on 6 March, 2011

I along with the other two Knaphill Councillors was asked a list of questions by the Knaphill Residents Association (KRA) following an article in the local press about the Council meeting where the proposals for the land at Brookwood Farm were discussed.  It is my understanding that the Knaphill Residents Association will be using the […]

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Multiple requests to clean up the state of the Queen’s Road car park seem to have been going on so long that I think they are almost at the stage of being worth called a saga.  This saga has involved many emails, photos and site visits, but finally the litter is being cleared more frequently, […]

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My earlier posts about off street car parking charges are now slightly out of date as these proposals have now been noted by the executive and will be considered for the next municipal year.  It is a little disappointing that we do not know the outcome of this process yet, but I am glad that […]

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Unadopted roads are roads that are currently treated by the council as private roads, but are intended to be roads maintained by the council once they are completed.  Some roads in Woking have been waiting ten years to be adopted. One of the things that I find most frustrating as a Councillor is residents paying […]

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On Saturday 18th September I took part in a council visit to the Thameswey Milton Keynes combined heat and power (CHP) energy station in Milton Keynes. I was finding it hard to get my head around why Woking Borough Council has invested in a power station and private wire network to convert mains gas to […]

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