Members of Cranleigh Civic Society met with representatives of the Environment Agency (EA) and Thames Water on Friday 16 December 2016 at Thames Water’s offices in Shalford. Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) and Waverley Borough Council were invited but were unable…
Dunsfold Park WA/2015/2395 was granted permission by Waverley’s Joint Planning Committee (JPC) on 14 December in a recorded vote of 10 Councillors in favour and 8 against. Before the application went to committee there had been several reports of the application being…
Cranleigh Civic Society’s Chair Liz Townsend attended a meeting with the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Andrea Leadsom MP, together with Anne Milton MP, and the Environment Agency’s Executive Director of Environment and Business, Harvey Bradshaw on…
We first wrote about the sewage in the brook saga on 2 June 2015. Can you believe it, nearly 17 months later and the problem is still not resolved. In the intervening months Cranleigh Civic Society has sent countless emails and made several calls…
The Cranleigh Civic Society has been very busy compiling its response to Waverley’s Local Plan Part One. Yesterday (3 October 17:00) was the deadline for all comments. We delivered our forms first thing in the morning and got a receipt for 42…
On Monday the Cranleigh Civic Society accompanied members of the Environment Agency (EA) and Surrey Wildlife Trust (SWT) on a formal river walk along Cranleigh Waters. Regular readers will know that we have been highlighting the fact that Cranleigh Waters stops flowing,…
Cranleigh Civic Society is investigating the report received that Waverley Borough Council has not yet completed a full Water Cycle Study as part of it’s preparation for their draft Local Plan about to be released for public consultation. REGISTER TO HAVE YOUR…
In just a few minutes after a heavy downpour on Saturday afternoon (25 June) parts of Cranleigh were very quickly flooded. Knowle Lane 25 June 2016 This incident shows exactly how rapidly flooding can occur and provides a clear indication of how catastrophic a…
In the face of mounting local concerns about ongoing sewage spillages and out of control housing development, Cranleigh Civic Society called a meeting on the 11th of May, at the Elmbridge Road Sewage Works. We invited representatives, who all attended,…
The ongoing problem with raw sewage being released into the brook running along the edge of the CVHT field and abutting Knowle Lane is now receiving long overdue attention. In yet another email to dated 4 May 2016 to the Environment…
