As an update on this post from last week, the JPC voted 9-5 to defer the decision on this application, on grounds of flooding and odour from the nearby sewage works. Thakeham Homes application (Planning Ref : WA/2016/1921) for 54…
The nightmare has come true! Yet another 265 houses on green fields were voted in last night on the casting vote of the Waverley Joint Planning Committee’s Chairman Cllr Peter Isherwood. So now Cranleigh has a deluge of 1,236 new…
DON’T FORGET OUR AGM TONIGHT – 2 MARCH 2017, BAND ROOM, VILLAGE WAY FROM 7PM After more than seven years Thames Water say they still can’t find the source of the sewage leak into the brook running along the field…
For residents of Northdowns the winter has brought some welcome relief from the pong of sewage emanating from a sewage pipe running behind their houses on the Downs Link. However, yes you’ve guessed it, this problem has not yet been…
Many residents have raised concerns that development was progressing on the Amlets Lane site prior to discharge of pre-commencement planning conditions regarding sewage. In response to this, two Committee Members of Cranleigh Society visited the site of Amlets Park on…
Thames Water have now carried out further investigations into the sewage odour nuisance to the back of Northdowns. They have confirmed that: “We attended and cut the brambles on 5 January 2017, and uncovered 3 manhole covers. We lifted the…
As you will know there has been an overwhelming and distressing pong of sewage for some months along the Downslink behind Northdowns, which we have been pressing Thames Water to investigate. Before Christmas Thames Water confirmed that: “There are manhole…
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…
Despite ongoing complaints of sewage odour from residents living near to Elmbridge Road Sewage Treatment Works, work has commenced on two additional 30m diameter open-air filtration beds. Members of Cranleigh Civic Society are extremely disappointed that Surrey County Council has maintained its…
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…
