Category: Waverley Borough Council

Good old Jeremy Hunt, now he’s upset all those dedicated young doctors all over the country that are working around the clock looking after the sick and dying.

One doctor at a local hospital, (no names; no sacking) has asked everyone to remember that Junior Doctors are all doctors, that are not Consultants – hardly Junior then! They say, that being a doctor is all about their patients, and they are fearful that the Government’s proposed new contract is fundamentally dangerous and unsafe for patients.

Whilst our Waverley MP, and Secretary State for Health, the Right Honourable Jeremy Hunt MP, is busy moving into his new home in Markwick Lane, just off the Dunsfold Road, and is equally busy trying to pedestrianise our streets in Farnham Town Centre, the entire doctor community is threatening to go on strike.

Said one Doctor coming off a 16 hour shift: “I am so tired at the end of a shift, I can barely spell my own name, let alone make life and death decisions. There is not a Doctor in the UK that trusts Jeremy Hunt.”

Didn’t we do well in Waverley? We voted the saviour of the National Health Service back in! In the Daily Mail this week, we read: Hunt “will end up replacing junior doctors with migrants’.

Consultant Surgeon J. Meirion Thomas, the fearless Welshman, says the row will leave the NHS more reliant on doctors from overseas. Up to 15,000 junior doctors are just 11 days away from voting to strike over changes to their pay and conditions, which JH is determined to push through. Well, you don’t get to be PM by not being drastic, JMT!

No problem here in Surrey – the borough and county councils, aided by the Bishop of Guildford, are busy making plans to take as many migrants as they can – let’s hope some of them are doctors and they can speak the lingo!

It looks as if WW has flushed out the ‘coy” Scot regarding his plans for Dunsfold Aerodrome – or did we just get lucky?

WHAT WW WANTS TO KNOW IS -WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG!

What a pity he didn’t repay our timely prod by giving us an exclusive…instead that honour went to the Surrey Advertiser. No doubt he believed WW is not widely read enough yet – only just over 3,000 hits in two weeks, but don’t worry Scottie, in future you will read things here first because we are growing by the day.  Maybe he thought we had stuck a cattle prod where it wasn’t welcome?

But never mind, we mustn’t be churlish! the important thing is that the residents of Waverley are now aware of some of what is happening at the airfield. The new owners are coming forward with a new proposal to help meet the borough’s housing need and, if they pull their finger out and get on with it, they might even be in time to save a few of the borough’s green fields before the concrete mixers start churning…

Watch out all you eager beavers out there, you and all the other concrete merchants eager to build on our green and pleasant land in Haslemere, Farnham, Godalming, Cranleigh…the borough’s sleepy Scotsman is about to rouse himself from his slumbers – he might even Roar.

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Villagers are reeling from the shock after a tragic accident near the dangerous bend outside the village shop this morning in which a 50 year-old woman died…..

NOW

Yet another developer has thrown its hat into the ever-widening ring and most want to create accesses off the dangerous Loxwood Road, the scene of numerous accidents.

It would appear every man and his bulldozer wants to roll into the Surrey/ Sussex border village, “First, we thought we were just under siege, now we are beginning to feel there is an avalanche of developers beating a path to our door”  one contributor told WW.

They said residents recently told a  public meeting they feared for their lives every time they moved out of their drive onto the Loxwood Road, but that their very real  concerns were treated, by some, with derision .

Could this be coming to a site near you?

House to house lobbying of residents, claims of bully boy tactics against some of the  Charity’s residents by its own officials, these are just some of the concerns that are surfacing, and the atmosphere in the small rural village on the Surrey/Sussex border appears anything but tranquil.

WW is hearing from its mounting number of contributors, we are now at an amazing 11, after only a few weeks, – and some are claiming that all is not well in leafy Alfold.

“We really are under siege here, people knocking on the doors, asking us to send letters supporting Thakeham Homes scheme, and this week something really bizarre happened, a number of us had the Lords’ Prayer on a white sheet of paper with no name or contact details pushed through the doors. What is going on – do we have to start praying for deliverance from damned developers?” We understand the same tactics are being used in Cranleigh.”

Another villager claims there is an unhealthy friendship between one of the Charity’s Trustees who is also a borough councillor with a villager called “Oh Carol.” They say, “ it is beginning to smell very strong around here.”

Another called “Alfold fighting Back” has passed a document to WW which reveals that the Charity, Care Ashore, which  claimed at a public meeting it is “impoverished” has recently bought a bungalow on the Loxwood Road for its Chief Executive for £555,000 and has millions in reserves.

Other developers are also jumping onto the Alfold bandwagon.  A screening opinion has gone into Waverley (SO/2015/0000) for up to 60 dwellings on land west of Sweeters Copse, Loxwood Road, Alfold. There are several others revving up to put in applications too.

Whose fault is that?

No Local Plan ! 

No Defence!

No Comment.

OH! COME ON WAVERLEY COUNCIL – THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH A VILLAGE CAN TAKE!

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Conan Doyle house battle to return to High Court So, presumably WBC will be shelling out more of OUR money!

Whilst we were all away in August sunning ourselves on beaches at home and  abroad – the Silly Season was in full swing at Waverley. Safe in the knowledge that they had bounced back into power, hanging on the coat tails of a General Election, all was well.  Whilst they topped up their tans, back at the ranch, they heard the following:

Campaigners seeking to protect the former home of the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from redevelopment, have been granted permission for a judicial review of the council’s planning approval for its conversion into a school.

Conan Doyle wrote many of his best-loved Sherlock Holmes stories whilst living at the  Victorian house, Undershaw, in Hindhead, Surrey. Plans to redevelop the building have had a long planning history. Waverley Borough Council’s planning consent to convert it into eight homes was struck down by the High Court three years ago.Click here to Read more.

In March, the council granted planning approval to allow its conversion into a school for children with special needs.

But now, High Court judge Mr Justice Singh, has granted John Gibson – an author who has written books on Conan Doyle’s life and is director of the Undershaw Preservation Trust – permission to mount a full judicial review challenge to the grant of planning permission.

Paul Stinchcombe QC, for Gibson, claimed the council had shown a “cavalier disregard” for Undershaw’s “irreplaceable” status.

The school development would involve a “hugely damaging extension” to the house which would destroy its character, he argued.The Victorian Society, English Heritage and others had objected to the DFN Charitable Foundation’s plans.

John Hobson QC, for Waverley Council, said the council had approved DFN’s proposals after “thorough and exemplary” consultation with heritage bodies.

Just because English Heritage and others disagreed did not mean that the council’s decision was wrong, he added.

Describing Waverley Council’s handling of the issue as “impeccable”, he said the harm caused to Undershaw would be “less than substantial.

” Well that’s alight then! says WW.

Work on converting it into a school was already well underway and the council had rightly taken into account the “conspicuous public benefits” of the scheme. Opening the way for a full judicial review, however, Justice Singh said Gibson’s complaints were “at least arguable”.Planning law in relation to listed buildings was in need of clarification and the case raised “issues of general importance”, he added.

Gibson’s challenge will now go ahead to a full High Court hearing on a date which has yet to be set.R on the Application of Gibson v Waverley Borough Council. Case Number: CO/2154/2015