Stoneleigh Sure Start centre earmarked for closure
Surrey County Council plans to save money by closing 7 of its 58 children's centres, including Meadow Sure Start centre in Stoneleigh.
4 May 2015
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Epsom and Ewell News
Defending Epsom Hospital
Local Liberal Democrats joined the recent cross-party demonstration outside Epsom Hospital arranged by the GMB and the Epsom Guardian.
4 May 2015
Lib Dem General Election Manifesto 2015
This is a link to the Liberal Democrats 2015 General Election Manifesto.
25 Apr 2015
Lib Dem Manifesto for Epsom & Ewell 2015
Epsom & Ewell Liberal Democrats have published their 2015 Manifesto for the Borough Council Elections.
26 Apr 2015
Plan E Consultation – two-way traffic in South Street?
Surrey County Council will exhibit plans for Epsom town centre in the Ebbisham Centre on 18, 19 and 21 March. They include allowing traffic from West Street to turn right into South Street, which would become two-way.
9 Mar 2015
Epsom & Ewell Budget reveals RA’s Lack of Vision
Responding to the 2015 budget for Epsom & Ewell, Lib Dem councillor Alison Kelly noted that the Residents Association needed a 2% council tax increase because they had run out of reserves and run out of fresh ideas.
8 Mar 2015
Surrey County Council News
Liberal Democrats criticise Surrey County Council’s lack of transparency
Surrey County Council has a statutory duty to publicise the equalities and diversity profile of its workforce annually, at a minimum, as per The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) Regulations 2011*. Unfortunately Surrey County Council have failed to do so.
26 Apr 2019
Tories condemned for slashing local special needs budget by £4,403.72 in Surrey
The Liberal Democrats have condemned the Conservative Government for slashing Surrey County Council budget for special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) by £4,403.72 per pupil in real terms since 2015, resulting in a loss of specialist provision.
17 Apr 2019
Fly Tipping to Increase!
Just a few days after criticial local elections across all of Surrey, residents who use Bagshot, Cranleigh, Dorking and Warlingham CRCs will only be able to take recycling to these sites, from Tuesday 7 May 2019. The change comes following a Cabinet decision in January 2019 to keep the sites open temporarily in order to find an alternate route of funding.
11 Apr 2019
Norbury Park Car Park Charges Failure
The County Council admitted in its Cabinet meeting, on the 26th March 2019, that the car park charges introduced last year at the Norbury Park car parks has resulted in substantially fewer vehicles being parked in the car parks than anticipated.
27 Mar 2019
Surrey Liberal Democrats achieve restrictions on high cost staff
The Liberal Democrats today saw success when their motion aimed at cutting the costs spent on interim staff at Surrey County Council was adopted. The motion, proposed by Cllr Chris Botten, and seconded by Cllr Will Forster was produced in reaction to recent news that Surrey was recruiting for another interim manager on a £90,000+ annual salary.
19 Mar 2019
I am a Corporate Parent- how I discharge that responsibility matters- and how do I know our Fire and Rescue Service is safe?
Two onerous responsibilities impacted on me at the beginning of this week. You may have seen the BBC programme in which Gareth Malone trains a choir for a concert at the school which sits beneath the hulk of Grenfell Tower. In a very moving film, he works to identify talent among the remarkably resilient and interesting young people, who lost many of their school friends in the fire. Among them is a young man with an obvious talent and imagination, but who finds school challenging because he has had to move to new foster parents; he has difficulty trusting people because as he gets to know them they seem to abandon him.
CB
14 Mar 2019