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, […]

Looking back at my first thoughts on the coalition agreement and the right for the coalition to abstain on any vote to raise tuition fees – that the public will not see abstaining as anything other than wimping out, I can see now that I had underestimated the Tory plan.  Although I do often give […]

At the Full Council meeting of Woking Borough Council on Thursday 9th December 2010, the fees and charges for next year were agreed.  These were recommended to Council by the Conservative Executive. The decision by the Conservative Executive to reject the recommendation by Lib-dem members of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee to keep the 30 […]

My earlier posts about off street car parking charges are now slightly out of date as these proposals have now been noted by the executive and will be considered for the next municipal year.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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In my time a Vice President of the International Federation of Liberal Youth I was fortunate to meet some Burmese Liberal Political activists and was inspired by their every effort.  This week I was proud that we have Liberal Democrat ministers in government who can act for Burma when I heard that Deputy Prime Minister […]

I recently received the message below from the Neighbourhood Police teams in Woking.  I think it is important to share this as burglary could become a problem if we do not continue to be vigilant. *********************************************************************************** Due to a recent spate of Burglaries in the Knaphill, St Johns and Horsell areas the Neighbourhood Teams are […]

Following my post in August on Car Parking being looked at by the Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the results of the  survey from the summer are available here – Car Parking Survey Results. At the committee meeting on Monday 20th September to discuss the outcomes from the first meeting on this issue the following proposals […]

Chris Huhne’s annual energy statement delivered in Parliament recently set out some of the coalition’s thinking on the environment as any statement on energy inevitably does.  What was missing was information about micro energy generation which we are told will be forthcoming in the autumn. What I personally hope the coalition will do is put […]