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Our next ELECTION MEETING (via Zoom) is on Tuesday 20th Apr 2021 - 8pm (Zoom Meeting, Thames Ditton, ). All who live or work in Thames Ditton and Weston Green are welcome. Click here for our Open meeting dates
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Election Meeting - Tue 20 April
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 8:00pm
COME AND MEET YOUR RA CANDIDATES
Joining DetailsGo to: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89629874082
Meeting ID: 896 2987 4082
or Dial in by phone: +44 203 481 5240
If you have questions or issues you would like discussed,please get in touch ahead of the meeting.
Contact: Florian Traub - secretary@residents-association.com
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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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Lower Mole Consultation ending soon
Environment Agency Consultation on the Update of the Lower Mole Flood Alleviation Scheme set to close on 1st April
The Environment Agency reports that the Lower Mole Flood Alleviation Scheme, installed after the 1968 floods, is approaching the end of its design life and needs to be updated. Their consultation offers six options, with costs ranging up to £118 million. Some of the options would result in a substantial lowering of the water level in this part of the Rivers Mole...
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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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Covid Testing & Vaccination Update
Equal Access to Vaccinations
* Some helpful resources on engaging with South Asian people on COVID-19 are available via the South Asian Health Foundation.
* Information about COVID-19 Vaccine scams in South Asian languages.
* There is plenty of discussion about tackling health inequalities being made worse by the pandemic – see here for blog on vaccine uptake in Black communities.
* Surrey is conducting several initiatives to reduce health inequalities relating to the pandemic and we will ...
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Covid Testing & Vaccination Update
Latest information on Covid tests and vaccinations
Testing
Symptom-free Testing
Online booking for rapid tests is now available for people who don’t have symptoms in Woking, Epsom and Ewell, and Spelthorne, and participating pharmacies across Surrey.
This targeted local community testing is for people who don’t have symptoms, live or work in Surrey, can’t work from home and haven’t already been offered a test through work.
Businesses with 50+ employees who cannot work from home ...
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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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