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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It was a pleasure to join the young people and volunteers to assist them with their celebrations for the Cabin’s 2nd birthday at the Vyne in Knaphill recently. For the first time the Rose room was used for activities at the Cabin.  An excellent and evidently popular DJ and team of MC’s entertained the young […]

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 […]

For the Full Council meeting on 17th February I asked a written question to Cllr John Kingsbury the leader of Woking Council about the failure of the council to lower the Woking standard for Li Xiaobo.  I was shocked by the answer Cllr Kingsbury gave, that he regretted lowering the flag Aung Sun Suu Kyi, […]

In February I called an additional meeting of the Woking Borough Council Overview and Scrutiny Committee for 21st March, to look at the work of Woking Borough Council’s arms length companies.  This was following concern from a number of members of the council as well as members of the public that Woking Borough councillors do […]

On the 5th March I was pleased to be able to join a local Drive Smart initiative in Knaphill with local police.  I attended in my capacity as the organiser of the local community speed watch group and as a local councillor.  During the morning PCSOs and local police officers targeted speeding drivers as well […]

On Thursday 14th April at a Fully Council meeting of Woking Borough Council a vote will take place on a motion that I proposed at the last Full Council meeting to only fly the flags of countries with democratically elected governments over the Woking Borough Council offices. This motion is not supported by the Conservative […]