A notice from the Council:

The parking proposals are currently being advertised by public notice for 28 days. This includes the publishing of a formal notice in a local newspaper; street notices being erected on site at each location; plus drawings and a statement of reasons being available to view at each library across the borough, and also at Spelthorne Borough Council offices. Those properties immediately fronting locations where changes are proposed will be notified individually by letter.

You can download and view the plans for Lower Sunbury and Halliford by clicking here

If you wish to object, support or comment on any of these proposals, then please complete our online response form (available from Friday 7 June) by 5 July 2019.

Alternatively, you can write to us via the following address: Spelthorne parking review 2019, Parking Team, Hazel House, Merrow Lane, Guildford GU4 7BQ.

27th - 29th June at the Riverside Arts Centre, Manor Players Bring Agatha Christie's The Hollow.

For poster and booking details, click here

Further to the article posted on this site on 29^th April, there is now just one day left to respond to this consultation.

Reponses must be submitted by close of play on Tuesday 4^th June. “The Local Green Space designation was introduced by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in March 2012 which offers a high degree of protection to areas of importance to the local community.  This is on the basis that the land meets certain criteria to achieve the designation.” (Para 1.4). “The Local Green Space designation was introduced by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in March 2012 which offers a high degree of protection to areas of importance to the local community.  This is on the basis that the land meets certain criteria to achieve the designation.” (para.1.6).  

Our comments may be summarised as follows:

• We believe that a total score of at least 13 out of the 25 available sets the bar too high. After all, “There has been no standard methodology produced by the Government against which the areas proposed to be designated as Local Green Space are assessed.” (Para. 2.1) If uniformly applied we would expect these sites, amongst others, to be vulnerable to exclusion:
  • Flower Pot Green
  • Cedars Recreation Ground, Green Street 
  • Hawke Park (Former Line of Lower Sunbury Relief Road TP26)
  • Belgrave Road/Batavia Road
  • Lime Crescent
• Furthermore, the burden of proof is on local residents to evidence “observed wildlife” or “frequent” recreational use by the community in order to qualify for protection as a local green space. How is this evidence to be acquired?
• Para. 3.9 “The minimum threshold proposed is any area below 0.25 hectares (0.6 acres) would not be designated. This represents the size of an area which can accommodate approximately one residential unit.” We disagree with this assessment. 0.25 of a hectare would allow for up to 12 residential units.

AGENDA

1. Apologies for absence

2. Minutes of the 2018 Annual General Meeting 

3. Chairman’s Report

4. Treasurer’s Report

5. Election of Officers and Committee

6. A tribute to the late Peter Francis, LOSRA Committee Member

7. Presentation by David Munro, Police & Crime Commissioner for Surrey, and Inspector Maxine Cilia, Surrey Police Borough Commander for Spelthorne

8. Open Forum

9. Any other business

The AGM Newsletter, which will be distributed to households in early June may be viewed by clicking here

To see audited account for 2018, click here

Guitarist, Clement Regert is a Parisienne who moved to London in 2005. Since re-locating to our Capital he has played at numerous venues and festivals in the UK such as the London Jazz Festival, London Latin-Jazz festival, the Canary Wharf jazz Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, Pizza Express Soho and the Jazz Cafe. He has collaborated with the likes of Lianne Carroll, Tim Garland, Natalie Williams, Dennis Rollins, Denys Baptiste, Mark Mondesir, Andrew McCormack, Robert Mitchell, Ross Stanley, Jay Phelps and Jim Watson, to name but a few.

He joins the Terence Collie trio on 9th June at 7.45pm for what promises to be another superb evening of jazz. He and the trio will be celebrating the Jazz guitarist, George Benson.

Venue: The Riverside Arts Centre, 59 Thames Street, Lower Sunbury.

For further details and booking, click here

One of the doctors and other Practice staff will give an overview of the many positive developments taking place as well as highlighting the challenges faced by the Practice in our ever expanding community.

There will also be an opportunity for general comments, suggestions and questions from patients. Please note that this is NOT an opportunity to discuss individual cases or issues, these should be passed to the Practice in the normal way.

To see poster, click here

The following self-explanatory email has been received from Nigel Drury, Community Connector at Spelthorne Council and we are pleased to reproduce it here:

“I write to you and some others who have expressed interest in the idea of an organised community-based approach to increasing dementia awareness and helping bring the right help and support to those living with dementia.

“The Shepperton Dementia Action Group with whom I’ve worked is hosting an afternoon event at the Shepperton Village Hall on Wednesday 22nd May (click here for poster). That is to mark the Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Action Week and provide the community with the chance to meet representatives of various organisations who are providing help and services to people living with dementia and their families.

“It is also an opportunity to hold a ‘Dementia Friends’ training session, and I would encourage you to pass on the word to those who might be interested in becoming a ‘Dementia Friend’.   I attach the leaflet for the event.

“A visit to the Shepperton event by Sunbury folk can be seen as part of the road to the formation of their own group in the near future.  Indeed I am now available to be at hand to facilitate that community initiative should there be enough of  a collective will – which I believe there is.

With best regards,

Nigel Drury - Community Connector - Spelthorne Borough Council

This Association has been involved in the gravel extraction issue for over 40 years, and has successfully fought to stop or delay the working of gravel at sites in the area.

When the last Surrey Minerals Plan consultation began about 12 years ago it became obvious that Watersplash Farm would be the next site earmarked for working as part of national strategy, LOSRA and SSAGE (Sunbury & Shepperton Against Gravel Extraction) worked first to oppose it and then to mitigate the impact, and Cemex have been very accommodating in this regard, to the extent that LOSRA feels it has achieved as good a result as possible.

One of the reasons the planning application has taken so long was that the Environment Agency raised hydrology issues, which Cemex have addressed in the revised plan. In response to the article in the last Sunbury Matters, Cemex have given the following comment:

“CEMEX can confirm that it has addressed the issue of groundwater flooding at length within the Flood Risk Assessments and Surface Water Management Plan that was contained in Volume 5 of the Environmental Statement (March 2016) and that the Environment Agency have removed their objection to the proposals.

The modelling has shown a modest groundwater level rise up hydraulic gradient of the proposed landfill and an equivalent modest fall down hydraulic gradient. Accordingly, the report states at Paragraph 4.3 that ‘in essence the models showed that groundwater is able to flow around the lower permeability restoration fill with little hindrance.’ Notwithstanding, the company has agreed to install a groundwater drain across the northern application site boundary running from Gaston Bridge Road to the River Ash in order to drain excess groundwater and prevent groundwater flooding.”