This R.A. covers Woodcote Ward which incorporates Ebbisham, Langley Vale, most of Abele Green and in the centre of which lies the RAC Country Club and to the South of which is the Race Course on Epsom Downs.
Annual General Meeting
The 2008 AGM will be held at:8:00pm on Monday 31st March 2008
Venue:St Martins C of E Junior School, Ashley Road, Epsom.
See our Spring 2008 Newsletter for Agenda and Minutes of 2007 meeting.
All W(E)RS members are encouraged to attend.
Lavandou Stables Development Plans
Three formal Planning Application were received by the Borough Council on 13th March 2008.Click the following to link directly to each application summary:
Conservation Area Consent reference: 07/01623/CAC.
Listed Building Consent - Alterations reference: 07/01608/LBA.
Full Planning Permission reference: 07/01607/FUL.
The full submitted plans can be viewed now at the Town Hall.
Quote references: 07/01623/CAC, 07/01608/LBA, and 07/01607/FUL.
We hope to have copies available at our AGM (see above).
Draft plans for the redevelopment of Lavendau Stables were displayed at the Town Hall on Friday 25th January 2008. The intention was to pre-exhibit the plans to help inform residents of the nature of the scheme to be proposed. The plans as finally submitted may differ from those displayed in January.
We notified local residents of the Borough and many came along to ensure they were fully aware of what was being proposed.
A Public Meeting was held on 28th February, which was also attended by Society representatives.
There is a special article about the issues surrounding this proposed development, and action instigated by the Society's Councillors in our Spring 2008 Newsletter.
We have produced a downloadable Public Information Notice summarising the relevant Policies of the Epsom & Ewell Borough Local Plan (CLICK HERE or see link in the "Newsletters"side panel to right).
In order for the Society to represent your views, we need to know what they are. Please e-mail or write to the W(E)RS Chairman, Robert Blackwell (contact details below) with any feedback (positive or negative). Contact details for your Councillors are also below on this page.
To be most effective, it is also important that now the Planning Application has actually been submitted for approval, individuals should make written submissions by email at contactus@epsom-ewell.gov.uk, or via the EEBC web site Contact Form,or by post or by hand to the Planning Department at the Town Hall, The Parade, Epsom, KT18 5BY. Note that the developer may well have altered the plans, possibly in light of public comment as a result of the pre-exhibition of the plans; any comments must relate to the version of plans actually submitted. As indicated above, these plans can be viewed now at the Town Hall, references: 07/01623/CAC, 07/01608/LBA, and 07/01607/FUL.
The Planning section of the EEBC borough website is at: EEBC Planning Department website .
Epsom & Ewell Council Elections
The local elections were held on Thursday 3rd May 2007.The Woodcote Residents Society supported three very strong RA candidates to represent YOU as your local Borough Councillors - they were Rob BLACKWELL, Teresa CASS, and Mike RICHARDSON. Teresa Cass and Mike Richardson were elected, but unfortunately Rob Blackwell just missed out.
See the full Election Results in our Summer 2007 Newsletter. The aim of the RA is to keep national party politics out of local government and this aim will continue.
Organisation of the Society
A managing committee is elected each year at the Society's AGM. Officers' positions are filled by committee members, who also select candidates to stand for election as Borough and County Councillors. The committee monitors and makes representations on local issues and liaises with council officers and our Borough and County Councillors and others in the interests of the residents of the Woodcote Ward. If you would like to help by serving on the committee please contact the Chairman (see below). An extensive network of "Road Representatives" collect subscriptions and distribute Newsletters and local informational flyers etc. Road Reps also act as a conduit to feed neighbours' views and suggestions back to the committee. There are some areas of the Ward still not covered by Road Reps; if you would like to help in this important role, please contact the Hon Treasurer (see below).Councillors
Teresa Cass (Borough Councillor)
Tel: . Email: tcass@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Teresa is new to the Borough Council having been elected on 3 May 2007. She is a strong advocate of the RA ethos of ensuring local government for local people by local people and keeping national party politics out of local government.
Teresa is on the Social Committee, Leisure Committee and The Walton & Epsom Downs Conservators.
She has been a resident of Woodcote Ward for over 12 years and has a strong sense of community values and passionately believes in the strength of people working together to foster community spirit.
Chris Frost (County Councillor)
Tel: 720430. Email: c.frost@surreycc.gov.uk
Chris has been a County Councillor since 1997, representing Epsom & Ewell South East. This includes the College and Woodcote Wards, and part of Ewell as far as and including the Reigate Road and NESCOT.
As one of the more senior County Councillors, Chris was until recently the Leader of the RA Group of Councillors. He is on many committees, including the Epsom & Ewell Local Committee, the Personnel & Appointments Committee and the Lower Mole Countryside Management Project Members Steering Group. The latter allows him to link his council work with his involvement with environmental matters, as he is also Chairman of the Woodcote Millennium Green Trust. This is the body that manages and maintains the Millennium Green (which runs along Woodcote Green Road).
All County Councillors have an allocation of money to spend each year, for the general benefit of the community. Chris has used his for a variety of items, e.g. for additional lighting in a footpath (Madans Walk) near Rosebery Park, more trees in Whitehorse Drive, smoke alarms for the elderly, new pavements outside St Christopher’s school and elsewhere in Downs Road, support for the Youth Club called YELL and safety measures for Wilmerhatch Lane. If anyone living in the Division has any ideas for other projects do contact him.
Chris is married with two grown up children, and has lived in Woodcote Ward since 1976.
Mike Richardson(Borough Councillor)
Tel: 745784. Email: mrichardson@epsom-ewell.gov.uk
Mike has been representing the Ward on the Borough Council since 2003. He is chairman of the Environment Committee covering, among other matters, anti-social behaviour, recycling and parking enforcement. Complementing this he is on the Surrey Local Government Association Joint Waste Strategy Consultative Board and the Surrey County Council Local Committee (dealing mainly with highway issues). Mike is also a member of the Financial Policy Panel that advises on sound financial management within the Borough.
Mike chairs the Hospital Cluster Group dealing with community issues relating to the new development on the former hospital sites. In addition, he represents the Borough’s wider interests at meetings of the Business Partnership Board. He is the Borough’s representative on the Epsom Common Association, and on the Epsom and Walton Downs Conservators, and is on the Board of Directors of the Epsom Grandstand Association Ltd. He is also on the Member’s Steering Group of the Lower Mole Countryside Management Project, and on the Community Safety and Capital Programme Members Groups. In addition he acts as the Historic Environment Champion.
Mike has been resident in Woodcote Ward for 12 years and is married with two grown up children.
Officers
- Chairman:
- Rob Blackwell, 113 Grosvenor Road Langley Vale KT18 6JF
- Tel: 274995
- Email: Robert.Blackwell@talk21.com
- Secretary:
- Kathy Belcher, 4 White Horse Drive Epsom KT18 7LY
- Tel: 728534
- Email: jbka@onetel.com
- Treasurer:
- Ian Allely, 2 Chalk Paddock Epsom KT18 7AT
- Tel: 726627
- Email: IanFTN@compuserve.com
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Newsletters Lavandou Planning Application[PDF] Spring 2008 Newsletter & AGM[PDF] Autumn 2007 Newsletter[PDF] Summer 2007 Newsletter[PDF] Election Special NL 2007[PDF] Election Manifesto 2007[PDF]
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