Although our eventual aim is to remove all through traffic from our High Street – that will have to wait until Surrey Council Council corrects its financial position. In the meantime, we in Weybridge can undertake our own improvements using our own CIL funds. The first major improvement is to provide an outdoor space for […]
Author: Cllr Vicki Macleod
A year ago, on 12 July 2017, Weybridge Hospital was destroyed by fire. One year on The two GP practices have now been re-established in very smart ‘portacabins’ on the site. There are also enhanced treatment rooms, staffed by nurses; the phlebotomy service; and the wound management clinic – an essential service for many of […]
Residents’ concern As a recently elected councillor, I find that parking is one of the top topics that people raise with me. Issues I have been dealing with both before the election and now are: unreasonable and dangerous parking by parents around one particular school in my ward lack of access for waste removal from […]
Much needed town centre development Weybridge residents are looking forward to having a new independent cinema at the site of Weybridge Hall. This might be the first of several enhancements to the life of the town centre. However, people have expressed concern over the lack of any update and apparent delay in the development moving […]
The Council’s approach Not many people know, but after the problematic start to waste collection under the new contract this time last year, the contractor Amey has had to return nearly £500,000 to Elmbridge Borough. The Council decided that the money returned should not go into the general Council fund, but should in some way […]
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Churchfield Allotments
The Lib Dems in Weybridge have inadvertently stirred up a brouhaha by mistakenly placing a Social Housing label close to Churchfield Allotments in our April Focus! This raised a concern among people living in neighbouring roads, who approached the owners of the allotments, the Weybridge Charity, to find out if there were any plans to […]
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Weybridge Town Meeting
Weybridge is due to hold its first post-election Town Meeting – at the Weybridge Centre for the Community, Churchfield Road on Monday 2nd July at 7.30. We will look at The spaces we use. How we get about. How we support people and keep them safe. Our local economy and business The goals of this […]
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Surrey’s Pothole Shame
Who would you rather have in charge of road maintenance where you live? According to a Get Surrey report in January 2018, when asked about the state of roads in Surrey, a spokesman for Surrey County Council said: “We’re working incredibly hard to improve Surrey’s roads – potholes are fixed at a rate of around 260 […]
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Norman Lamb MP visits Walton
Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat MP for Norfolk North, spoke in Walton on Thames last week about Brexit and the NHS and social care. BREXIT He started by saying there is hardly any debate on anything other than Brexit going on in Westminster at the moment. He said that he had not known anything like it, […]
When most new developments in Weybridge are built the developer has to pay a tax referred to as CIL (Community Infrastructure Levy) to help fund any increased needs locally, as a consequence of the building. This infrastructure can be equipment for schools, health centres, community centres or safer or better designed streets. CIL funds may only […]