It is a great pity that despite having been fined the Crown public house appears to continue to be a significant nuisance to residents in Knaphill.  I have been keen to avoid going too far in my public views on the Crown so as not to pre-prejudice any hearing that might take place regarding the […]

The remarkable answer to the question, ‘how deep does a pothole need to be in Surrey?’ depends on the depth of the road surface. At the Woking Borough Council Overview and Scrutiny committee meeting on 14th September I learnt that most Surrey roads have a surface above the base of the road of about 35mm. […]

At the Full Council meeting on 1st October 2009 I put forward a motion on youth services to the council. A copy of the motion can be seen at the end of this blog post. As is the system at the council, the motion was then referred to the Council’s Executive. The executive met on 15th […]

Ever since I was elected in May 2008 I have been campaigning to have the white lines at the junction of Barnby Road and Robin Hood Road repainted. It beggars belief that it has taken Surrey County Council over 15 months to do this, but finally the junction is safer, with fever cars approaching the […]

The recent decisions by Woking Borough Council to not increase parking charges in Woking for the second time in the year are in my opinion not enough to offset the damage done to the local economy by high prices, extended charging hours and a lack of appropriately priced, frequent public transport. There is something wrong […]

All residents in Woking should have received a letter telling them what day their waste and recycling collection days will change to from this week.  I have not received my letter yet and so I went to this website (http://www.woking.gov.uk/localservices) to see what day my collection changes to.  If you do not know what day […]

I have been informed that swimming lessons at the Pool in the Park are to change from term time only to all year round. This appears to have been done without consultation with customers, apparently to cut waiting lists, although how this will actually cut waiting lists is a mystery.  What it will mean is […]

I have recently received quite a few items of casework from residents concerned about how difficult it is to find a local NHS dentist, especially that there is not an NHS dentist in Knaphill.  This is a national problem that the Lib-dems have been campaigning about. Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb puts the blame […]

On 3rd December I met staff from the Woking Borough Council Planning department to discuss the process of planning gain to try to understand when in the planning cycle planning gain is considered.  I was surprised to learn that planning gain does not apply to all development, but only to larger developments and that planning […]