What is a Flood Action Group?
What is a Flood Action Group and is it time for you all to step up and form a dynamic working group? Some of us already attend Surrey Wide Flood Forum meetings and our few Water Rangers regularly test our…
Category Water Framework Directive
Flooding and How clean are our local rivers and streams? New Water Bill on the way
Have you had a chance to listen to Destination Cranleigh’s Cranleigh Community Radio number 23? Have a listen here Cranleigh Society current Chair Trevor talks about where the streams are and how we need to keep them clean. If you…
9:30 FLOOD FORUM Sept 6th BAND ROOM
9 am FLOOD FORUM Sept 6th BAND ROOM (with microphones and information sheets) Anne Milton’s MEETING starts at 9:30 for one hour only. Do get in touch in advance, join us and please tell us and the forum your flood…
Drinking Water Asbestos Cement Pipes – concerns
WE HAVE LONG BEEN CONCERNED ABOUT DRINKING WATER PIPES – THEY KEEP BURSTING AND SOME ARE MADE OF ASBESTOS CEMENT Cranleigh Society members have done their best to persuade Waverley Borough Council (WBC) and Thames Water (TW) to renew our…
Anne Milton opens Flood Gates
On Monday the 24th of July, Anne Milton MP organised a meeting at the village hall that she described as a flood forum and it turned out to be much more than that. She brought together Waverley planners, Thames Water,…
Blue Asbestos
As you will be aware we have had major concerns about our ageing and deteriorating asbestos cement drinking water pipes for some time now. Due to the age of previous significant development in Cranleigh in the 60’s, we suspected that…
Death of the Grampian Condition
It won’t have gone unnoticed to residents that both Crest Nicholson on the Horsham Road and Cala Homes on Amlets Lane have started developing their sites. Both these sites had Grampian style conditions. This was meant to prevent the start…
Cranleigh Waters Partnership Meeting
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…
Cranleigh Civic Society Meeting with Defra
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…
Amlets Lane Approved
The Amlets Lane application by Cala Homes for 125 dwellings got the final vote of approval at Waverley Borough Council last night by 12 votes to 9. Cranleigh’s Waverley Councillors all voted against the application, however this last minute push…