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PUBLIC MEETING

An opportunity to learn more about our plans to spend
millions of pounds redeveloping the Epsom Hospital site.

Wednesday 11 November 2009 7.30pm – 9pm

at

Epsom Town Hall
The Parade
Epsom KT18 5BY

Organised in partnership with Epsom & Ewell Borough Council and
NHS Surrey.

For more information:
email: communication@esth.nhs.uk
call: 020 8296 2406
visit: www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk
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Solum Regeneration propose to deliver a new and upgraded railway station for Epsom alongside around 120 homes, a hotel with 60 to 70 beds, a small retail complex, car parking and enhanced drop-off facilities.

They are holding a Public Exhibition in the Ebbisham Centre on Friday 16 October from 10am to 6pm and on Saturday 17 October from 10am to 4pm.

If you cannot attend the exhibition, or would like further information on the proposals, please contact Joanna Hoare, Community Consultant to Solum Regeneration on 020 7529 1725 or email jo.hoare@ppsgroup.co.uk.
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Blood stocks are under constant pressure and we are currently experiencing difficulties in encouraging new people to become blood donors.

Our success at attracting blood donors depends on enlisting the support of the local community. Your support and assistance in enrolling new donors would be extremely valuable. Every new donor registered counts and each resulting donation from a new donor could mean the difference between life and death for a vulnerable patient.

We would like to give as many people as possible the opportunity to donate in your local area. Do something amazing today - Give Blood.

Forthcoming session dates and locations:-
25/8/2009 EWELL, BOURNE HALL
25/8/2009 EPSOM, RAINBOW LEISURE CENTRE
25/8/2009 CHESSINGTON, THE KINGS CENTRE
1/9/2009 WORCESTER PARK, ST PHILIP & WESLEY HALLS
4/9/2009 TOLWORTH, TOLWORTH GIRLS SCHOOL
27/10/2009 EPSOM, ROSEBERY SCHOOL

We would also like to hear from people interested in becoming an organ donor. Organ donation - the gift of life.

Further details regarding blood and organ donation can be found at the following locations:-

www.blood.co.uk
www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
BBC2 Ceefax page 465

Or call the Call Centre: 0300 123 23 23

I look forward to your response.
Kind regards
Michael Thake
Donor Relations Co-ordinator (Marketing)
National Blood Service
]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2510Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:12:44 +0100

The Royal British Legion in Ewell is being re-named as The Epsom & Ewell Royal British Legion and we hope this will encourage new members to join and also support our fundraising events through THE POPPY APPEAL - needed now more than ever as our service personnel are deployed on active service in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

The RBL safeguards the welfare, interests and memory of those who are serving or who have served in the Armed Forces. We are recognised as custodians of Remembrance and run the annual Poppy Appeal.

Locally, the 2008/9 Poppy Appeal raised over £20,000 and we are extremely grateful for the generous way in which so many residents supported us in their giving or by "shaking a can". On behalf of the RBL, our most grateful thanks to all residents for their tremendous support.

In helping serving and ex-Service personnel and their families it is not just those who fought in the two World Wars, but also those involved in the many conflicts since 1945 and those still fighting today.

For further information about our work and our area please contact Ron Dixson on 020 8393 1364.

Thank You
]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2410Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:42:38 +0100
We understand that no planning application has been submitted, but (as is usual) there has been pre-application discussion between Tesco and the Borough’s planners.

The purpose of the exhibition (as has been the case in previous major developments) is to enable the public to give their feedback to Tesco on the basis of the initial intentions and to enable Tesco to consider modifications in the light of such feedback.

The exhibition will be in the Library Concourse at the Ebbisham Centre. It will be open:

Thursday 16 July 10am to 8pm.

Friday 17 July 10am to 6pm.

Saturday 18 July 10am to 2pm.

Those who are planning to attend the Planning Committee meeting on Thursday 16 July could of course combine the two events in one evening.]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2310Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:05:50 +0100
The idea is, across the UK, for people to arrange street picnics or street lunches, on the same day - Sunday 19th July. Epsom & Ewell Food Growing Group felt that organising street level lunches was a bit too much, but decided to organise one lunch for Epsom - in Alexandra Park.

The idea is that people bring the family, bring a picnic, including as much food that is either home grown, or at least as local as possible (not all that easy in Surrey!) and everyone gets the chance to share and swap food, and generally have a nice communal picnic, as well as meeting neighbours and other local residents, and generally having a good natter and a bit of fun.

The aim of the Big Lunch project is both celebrating local foods, and celebrating local community. A lot of people are growing at least a few things on patios, or in gardens and allotments - and plenty of vegetables and fruits should be ready by mid July. As for local foods, there are a few growers and producers in Surrey - the one that comes to mind first being Norbury Blue cheese, from south of Leatherhead.

For more details, contact Sarah Clayton on 01372 722341
or email sarah.clayton7@ntlworld.com

]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2210Fri, 5 Jun 2009 00:20:25 +0100

Even though the Government’s own auditors praise Surrey Police for “providing excellent value for money to the taxpayer”, the Government says that the Surrey Police budget for this year is too high. Consequently the Government plans to “cap” the amount of money that Surrey Police have already raised via Council Tax this year by £1.6m, forcing Surrey Police to return this money to the taxpayer. To do this, the Police will have to produce new, slightly lower council tax bills and distribute them to every household in the county.


The reduction amounts to around £3.24 for the year (or about 6p per week) for a Band D property. To return this £1.6m via the new council tax bills will cost £1.2m in administrative and distribution costs, and the resulting reduction in Police budget will force Surrey Police to cut 50 front line officer and staff posts.


Surrey Police Authority believes that this makes no sense, and it will compromise the ability of Surrey Police to provide the excellent front-line policing in Surrey that local people say they want. For this reason, Surrey Police Authority, with the full support of the Chief Constable, has decided to challenge the Government's plans.


One of its weapons is an on-line petition which has so far received over 4,500 signatures. If you want more information or if you want to sign the petition, please go to the Surrey Police Authority website www.surreypa.gov.uk and follow the directions.]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2110Sat, 2 May 2009 08:33:10 +0100
The UK currently imports 70% of its food - largely dependent on continuing supplies of cheap oil into the future, but local food growing seems to be all the rage nowadays, with everyone waking up to the fact that there are huge benefits from producing our own food. We can both save ourselves money by increasing the amount we grow here, as well as increase our "food security". And that ignores the fun, the sense of achievement, the healthy exercise and fresh air, and the huge carbon savings as well ...........

The Epsom and Ewell Food Growing group are working to promote local food growing, and felt that having some growing seedlings make the task of growing vegetables that bit easier, rather than starting from scratch with seeds and potting compost. They have about 230 pots growing now, which should be doing well by mid-May.

The group particularly want to get people who have never tried growing any food plants interested, as well as encouraging people who already do a bit of gardening to have a go at doing a bit more.

The sale is on Thursday 14th May, in the High Street (where the market is), from 9 am to 3pm.
]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2010Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:01:53 +0100

Following the snow and frost earlier this year, many of the local roads were left in poor condition. If you have any new damaged areas to report for either roads, footpaths or street furniture locally, you should either call the Surrey County Council Contact Centre on 0300 200 1003, between 8 a.m - 6 p.m Monday to Friday, or you can report them via Surrey County Council's website. Alternatively, you could e-mail or speak to your local WERRA Committee members, who will collate the details for passing to Surrey County Council. WERRA will also be monitoring this Forum, so can pick up the details from here.

Councillor Jan Mason has already been busy requesting and chasing up road repairs, and the installation of posts and bollards to prevent parking on the verges within Ruxley and West Ewell. The following work should now be complete, but if you know of anywhere on this list that has not yet been completed, please either reply via this Forum, or call or send an e-mail to one of WERRA committee, so Jan can find out what's happened and get it sorted out.

Repairs to potholes/road surface
Hogsmill Way, outside shops
First Avenue, outside No. 10
Grosvenor Road, various locations
Rosebery Road, outside No. 34

Reset Kerbs
Northcroft Road, opposite Nos. 19-21
Green Lanes, bottom end, near fields
Derek Avenue, various locations
Nimbus Road, between Nos. 47-49
Tonstall Road, outside No. 46
Meadow View Road, various locations

Drainage works
Clean out Acco drain grills
Hook Road, junction with Horton Lane
Break out cement in Gully
Brumfield Road, Outside No. 40

Street Furniture
Replace Visi rail
Riverview Road, Outside school
Replace sign and post
Nightingale Road, junction with Chessington Road
Replace Keep Left signs
Meadway, junction with West Hill.
Re-fix loose school sign
Grosvenor Road

Vegetation
Cut back vegetation
Poole Road, next to 71A

Posts/Bollards
Install Wooden Posts
Riverholme Road, Junction with Chessington Road
Gibraltar Crescent, various locations
Larkspur Close, outside 22-32
Meadowview Road, outside 23
Plough Road, juction with Kingsmead Close
Larch Crescent, junction with Nightingale Drive
Meadow View Road, various locations
Danetree Road, outside No. 3
Cox Lane, outside No. 29
Fendall Road, various locations
Belfield Road, Various locations
Oakhurst Road, various locations
Almond Road, outside No. 20

Install concrete bollards
Ruxley Lane, outside newsagents, junction with A240
Eastcroft Road, junction with Station Avenue
Reset bollards
Gadesden Road, near junction with Scotts Farm Road]]>werrahttp://werra.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1910Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:27:16 +0100
AGENDA

1 Welcome and apologies for absence

2 Guest speaker – Sarah Clift from the Borough Ranger Service

3 Approval of minutes of the Annual General Meeting held
Friday 28th March 2008

4 Matters arising

5 Treasurers report and appointment of Independent Examiner

6 Report from Helen Worwood. Chair of WERRA

Refreshment break

7
a Election of Chair, Vice Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and Party Leader
(Annual Appointments)
b Committee members (for 3 years)

8 Councillors Reports

9 Question and answer session

10 Any other business

WERRA hope that many local readers of this Forum will be able, and wish to attend our AGM. Our guest speaker, Sarah Clift, is presenting a feature on the Hogsmill River which wends its way through both West Ewell and Ruxley wards and has recently undergone a great deal work to make this a more accessible and attractive feature.

There is also opportunity to hear about the issues and activities that have kept the WERRA committee and your elected RA Borough Councillors occupied over the past year – and it has been a very busy year!

If you have not already paid, there will also be the chance to renew your annual subscription to WERRA (£2 per household).

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