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RA's letter to The Times re Planning
TD & WG Residents' Association Chairman, Graham Cooke, has written to The Times to dispute the ill-informed view expressed in an article published a few days earlier. Graham's letter has been published today and is shown below.
Letters to the Editor, The Times, Saturday 15 May 2021
Sir, I disagree with James Forsyth’s assertion (in "Nimbyism will cost the Tories new voters", 13 May) that “the complexity of the planning rules and unpredictability of the system means that you...
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M25 Junction 10 - Upgrade decision delayed
The final decision by the Secretary of State on the proposed upgrade of the M25 junction with the A3 (Junction 10) has been put back 6 months to 12 November 2021 - 'to allow for further consideration of environmental matters'.
Click here to go to the Highways England website, for details of the proposed upgrade.
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Election results
Congratulations to our TD & WG Residents' Association candidates - all were elected convincingly. Thank you to all our RA members for their support.
For Surrey County Council
The Dittons Division
NICK DARBY
Residents' Association
2744
DAVID GATTEY
Liberal Democrat
1239
NICHOLAS WEBER
Conservative
1014
GREG KNOWLES
Green Party
297
AHMAD ALI
Labour
229
For Elmbridge Borough Council
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Will Dominic Raab defend our shops?
TD & WG Residents' Association has written (below) to our MP, Dominic Raab, asking him (again) whether he supports our local shops, or whether he favours the Government's proposed change to Permitted Development Rights which will give developers greater opportunities to close shops down and convert the buildings to residential use.
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Subject: Our Local Shops - An Open Letter
Dear Dominic,
In January this year, we responded t...
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Merrywood development - Update
Merrywood development - Update
All RA Councillors were firmly opposed to the application, based on poor design, scale, height, loss of trees, and insufficient separation of buildings resulting in a cramped development; also amenity, i.e. parking layout, pedestrian safety, storage and collection of refuse bins. They were not however, opposed to the principle of development on the site. This was comprehensively presented and debated at the Planning Committee on 12th January. In order to fully u...
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Tory Porkies - once again
Conservative Lies and Misinformation about Residents-led Elmbridge Borough Council's Financial Management
You can tell when local elections are approaching - the Tory pork-pie factory goes into overdrive. This time, doing the rounds, we have their totally false claims that the Residents - Lib. Dem. administration is ruining Elmbridge Borough Council's finances.
As the Tories well know, scare stories get lots of attention, but many residents reading this sort of thing may be ...
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TDWGRA, Green Belt & the Housing Target
Thames Ditton & Weston Green Residents' Association welcomes and endorses the statement below from the Alliance of Elmbridge Residents and Civic Groups, urging protection of the Green Belt and a stand against the excessive housing targets that the Conservative Government is trying to force on Elmbridge. Protection of the Green Belt has always been one of our Association's core principles, and we have implored our MP Dominic Raab, to get Elmbridge's housing target reduced to a more realisti...
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Postal voting for 2021 local elections
Concerned about voting before the pandemic is over? Then why not go postal.
The government has announced that the 2021 local elections will go ahead, as scheduled, on Thursday 6th May. This year they will be more involved than usual, encompassing elections for:-
Elmbridge Borough Council (postponed from 2020)
Surrey County Council
Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner
By early May the government projects that all over 50s will have been offered at least one Covid vaccination. B...
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Developers against housing proposal
Even property developers are against the Government's Housing Consultation proposal to make it easier for commercial properties to be converted to residential use. See The Times article below.
Click here for the Residents' Association response to the consultation.
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RA's response to High St threat
Below is the TD & WG Residents' Association response, opposing the Housing Consultation proposal which would allow developers a free hand to convert High Street shops and offices to housing. It was also copied to our MP, Dominic Raab.
Subject: Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructureDate: 26/01/2021, 14:58To: PublicServiceInfrastructure&PermittedDevelopmentConsultation@communities.gov.uk
I write as Chairman of the...
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