Category: Waverley Borough Council

 

As pubs are pulled down quicker than pints – isn’t it time that the Government changed planning rules to prevent our local watering holes going down the pan? Across the country 33,034 lost pubs, 875 of those are in Surrey.

  Makes you feel like pouring yourself a drink!

 

We can see it now – pretty village pub makes way for more little boxes – made out of tricky tacky and they all look just the same!

 

 

 

 So there you are! – Remove one use class (restaurant/pub) to provide another use class (offices) then allow developers  to use the change in planning law, which now allows conversion from offices to residential use! 

All over bar the shouting, if you will excuse the pun – another community asset in Farnham  bites the dust! many Along with thousands  of others across the country. Read about them here!

http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/index.html

This is a question that will not be debated tonight – because the chain gang ceremony takes precedence over everything else tonight at “Your Waverley.’

Following this letter – we believe, another name was added. However, it is a  councillor  among those least likely to  represent Cranleigh, and who is unlikely to ever stand again!! 

Pull the other one!  – Ask anyone who, they believe, selects the membership of   influential committees? – The Executive – and Gone to Potts. As for seven members representing the East? Could they possibly mean Dunsfold’s  De’Anus keen to throw everything at Cranleigh to protect Alfold  and Dunsfold – and as for Bramley’s By-Pass Byham and Michael Goodridge (Wonersh) – say no more!

Here’s who will be representing your interests in the evolving huge development schemes planned in and around the Eastern villages including Cranleigh andEwhurst. Let’s hope that our two Farnham Residents councillors, Jerry Hyman and John Ward – if allowed – stick up for the East as well as the West.

Because… another election is not that far away… and following on from the successes of Farnham Residents’ in last week’s county council elections, other local groups are setting their sights on similar prizes in the future. Sadly – by which time  the damage  will have been done!

As we have said before – two Cranleigh Councillors selected.  One who either declares an interest, or stays away, and another who is consistently  ignored. So where is the woman who helped found the Cranleigh Civic Society, to Speak up for Cranleigh? We see Gone to Potts has put her on ‘HOUSING’ – well why not! After all where Liz comes from there will be a lot of it about!

Councillors for villages where there is little or no development have been selected to serve for the next crucial year.  Chairman Peter Isherwood will be there to continually    poke  his pencil up the East and West’s ar** whenever he gets the chance to use his Chairman’s and casting  votes at the JPC .  By-Pass Byham will be able to do the same in the  Eastern Area, which he chairs, – as long as development is everywhere – except at Dunsfold airfield!

Democracy or  Hypocrisy?

The latest cunning plan of developers is  to earmark  the settlement of Rowly, in Cranleigh.  Like Topsy … they want it to grow and grow… 

‘Your Waverley’ was ahead of the  game (aided and abetted by a developer) to use our money on a betting certainty.  It wants to  build an industrial estate, in the Green Belt  adjacent to the Manfield Park Industrial estate – but has pushed the million pound funding from this year into next!

Now other developers are lining up to join  the  settlement of Rowly  with Cranleigh New Town by  building on the green fields behind homes in the Guildford Road.

Why not indeed – the Knowle Park Initiative has bagged 265 houses on a  working nursery site in Alfold Road, so why shouldn’t the  derelict Silverwood Nurseries site in Guildford Road,  and other sites in Rowly,  go the same way? 

Just as a matter of interest – five  of Cranleigh’s borough councillors live in  Rowly  two of whom have already bagged planning permission for themselves on the Green Belt! 

.Not that they will have too much of a say in how Cranleigh develops in the future. Cranleigh councillors are being silenced by Waverley’s leadership.  Just two voices on the influential Joint Planning Committee as from Tuesday. One of whom declares an a pecuniary interest much of the time, the other … who is totally ignored  – so here comes the extra footfall the late Councillor Brian Ellis so fervently wished for. Right opposite his own home!

Developers are also aiming to start digging at the Notcutts Garden Centre nearby  – and anywhere else for that matter, that is green and doesn’t move!  

Waverley planning officers met recently with Cranleigh Parish councillors to urge them to come up with more sites – just in case the Dunsfold’s flying Scotsman’s  plans to build 1,800 homes on his brownfield site, hits the buffers. Apparently the 1,500 in the Daft Local Plan… just isn’t enough!

Rumour has it that when Anne Milton turns up at the public meeting called by Cranleigh Civic Society,  she may be in for a rough ride. It was Matron Milton that cracked her whip and persuaded the Secretary of State to call in  Dunsfold application for 1,800 on a brownfield site. Now villagers fear Matron Milton may have helped to imposed on them  –  the worst  of all worlds! Their green fields are disappearing under concrete faster than you can say Brexit!

Listen to the Big Bird -Because everyone makes mistakes, but some are bigger than others!

Read our recent post here: Could POW, KNOW HOW – TO SCUPPER ‘Your Waverley’s planning decisions?

Wasn’t it that thorn in Waverley’s side – Farnham’s Jerry – who asked – in public – for an explanation on the subject of the Council’s Constitution, and its  rules on Substitution. He was given short shrift, was told to contact the council’s officers, and given one of those Theresa May glares from ‘Gone to Potts’!

We wonder… has he had had a reply yet?

Oh! and by the way – how dare the voting fodder – ‘Speaking up for Cranleigh’ dare to mention that the pages in the Constitution aren’t numbered properly! If you lot were councillors representing Farnham Residents’ you would have received a damn  good slap, and sent to bed early! Oh! Dear!

This is a message we received from the Cranleigh Civic Society and the letter they have sent to ‘Your Waverley.’

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The most eye-watering  win in the county council elections,  was in Farnham Central, where Andy MacLeod secured Farnham Residents’ first ever county council seat – ousting long-standing (2005) Tory  Pat Frost, who also slipped behind the Lib Dems’ Jo Aylwin to finish third.

The group which has only existed for a short time doubled   its  tally when Stephen Spence was elected  for Farnham North, beating the Conservative’s Mike Hodge into second place. But Wyatt Ramsdale saved the Tories’ blushes and prevented a Farnham Residents whitewash, retaining Farnham South by narrowly beating the Mayor of Farnham John Ward by just 63 votes.
Farnham Residents’ two seats at county-level add to the six the party, founded in 2015, already holds at both Waverley Borough Council and Farnham Town Council.
However, in the rural area south of Farnham, Waverley Western Villages, Tory councillor since 2005 David Harmer, comfortably retained his seat with a huge 1,760-vote majority.

A Residents group that was unheard of until a few years ago has been treated with utter contempt since it dared to step on ‘Your Waverley’s  hallowed Tory turf. 

This is its message:

A full break-down of the results of the Surrey County Council elections can be found online at http://www.surreycc.gov.uk.