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By – Election of a Borough Councillor for
Cranleigh East Ward
on Thursday 7 October 2021
Finally, after many months of not being seen or heard of Cllr Richard Cole has resigned as a Waverley Borough Councillor.
The Liberal Democrat Cranleigh East representative moved away from the town earlier this year to a new home in Devon. He was a member of Cranleigh Parish Council and chairman of the Eastern Planning Committee for several years.
Now Phillip Townsend the husband of Waverley, and Surrey County Councillor Liz Townsend, a former Insurance Executive, will be going head to head for the Waverley East ward seat with retired schoolteacher and Cranleigh parish councillor Rosemary Burbridge.
The announcement was made yesterday.
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Go Rosemary – you get my vote. You are a wonderful human! Fingers crossed you win. Two Townsends at Borough sounds like a repeat of the Ellis and Stennett duos. Yuck.
She might be a wonderful human to you, but we should be voting on effectiveness as a councillor. Her tenure at Cranleigh Parish Council, has been marked by self-promotion, obstruction, back-stabbing and weirdness. She also supported Ellis and the Stennett duos in their voting, hardly a recommendation.
What a nasty comment Billy. I’m sure Mr Townsend is a pleasant guy but I don’t know what he has done in the Community. His wife has done a lot of good although I wish she has stayed Independent. Rosemary has worked extensively helping disadvantaged children. I’m not a fan of husband and wife teams. I thought we were done with that nonsense in Cranleigh with the departure of the Stennetts and one Ellis. Obviously not.