Local Elections – Thursday 4 May
The next scheduled Borough and Town Council elections will be held on Thursday 4 May 2023 (from 7am until 10pm)The UK government is making changes to the UK electoral system. The Elections Act 2022 contains measures that affect elections and how we vote.The most significant of these is the introduction of photo identification at polling […]
Planning is broken
The current planning system is completely broken, writes Catherine Powell, the Farnham Residents county councillor for Farnham North. Neighbourhood Plans were supposed to manage where new developments were permitted to meet housing allocations within local constraints. However, the protection they offer against speculative development reduces after only two years. There is a lot of money […]
Object Now to Burning Rubbish 24/7
Veolia is a multinational firm that wants to demolish the current recycling plant near Alton and replace it with an incinerator to burn residual residential and commercial waste. This is waste that cannot be recycled and would otherwise go to landfill. The planned incinerator will be 40m high with two 80m chimneys, which the company […]
Farnham Neighbourhood Plan
Why does Farnham need another FNP Referendum? It is against a backdrop of election/referendum fatigue, that this blog will hopefully explain the need for a good turnout for Farnham’s Neighbourhood Plan Referendum taking place on Thursday 12 March at our local polling stations. What is a Neighbourhood Plan? A Neighbourhood Plan is a way of […]
Waverley Maintains Frontline Services in the Budget
Waverley Borough Council last night approved its budget for the 2020/21 financial year. Since May 2019, the council has been run by an alliance made up of the Farnham Residents Group and Liberal Democrats plus smaller groups. This year’s budget sets out how the council will maintain frontline services this year, while it seeks new […]
Memorial Hall Tree Planting Ceremony
Over a year ago my wife and I read a story that appeared in a Melbourne newspaper written by our brother-in-law Tony Wright, in which he told the story of the young Australian servicemen who gave their lives in WW1 to support the Mother country, and in particular the small Australian town of Ballarat who […]