Category Archives: Campaigns

Crackdown on illegal moorings on the Thames

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On Wednesday 25 June, Elmbridge Borough Council led a joint enforcement operation at Cigarette Island, East Molesey, with the Environment Agency, Surrey County Council, and Surrey Police. This follows the introduction of a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) targeting unauthorised moorings on council-owned land. Officers checked boat registrations, served trespass notices, and issued fly-tipping fines. Support and advice were also

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“STOP PRESS”

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SurreyCC. reviewing ‘alleged public footpath from Hawkshill Way, along Park Close to join Public Footpath 43 (Esher)’. After five years of waiting, former ERA Committee member, Doug Fryer’s campaign to reinstate footpath gets a review. Surrey County Council’s Countryside Access Team has just issued the following letter: Countryside AccessSurrey County CouncilMerrow DepotMerrow LaneGuildfordGU4 7BQ  18 June 2025 Alleged public footpath

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Meet Up Mondays

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MeetUpMondays™ was started by Mick Dore of The Alexandra pub in Wimbledon in January 2018. Mick was fed up with reading about loneliness and decided to ‘do something’. His pub has consistently won awards for its commitment to the community – notably its free Christmas dinner for anyone who would usually be alone on Christmas Day. So what did he do? Well,

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Hersham Golf Club Footpath News

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Since we featured the parlous state of this footpath in our last newsletter, a number of residents have written to us complaining about the rubbish on the path, the holes in the golf club fencing and the graffiti. Rubbish It has taken some months, but Amey, the Elmbridge BC contractor has removed some of the rubbish on the path. They

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Countryside Volunteer Bulletins – Updated

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The Elmbridge Countryside team has sent us their three most recent newsletters. They give an account of the work they have been doing on West End Common, Arbrook Common and Littleworth Common. They also cover some of the tasks they have undertaken over the last couple of years and the resulting benefits. They’d like to encourage local residents to take an interest

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Simon Waugh presents cheque for £60,000 to Brain Tumour Charity

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The Mayor of Elmbridge for 2022-23, Councillor Simon Waugh, was delighted to present a cheque for the fantastic sum of £60,000 to The Brain Tumour Charity/Emily Oliver Fighting Fund.  The Mayor of Elmbridge Trust Fund will also receive a donation. These are the charities he had chosen to support during his Mayoral term of office.   The funds were raised with various

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Richard Williams retains the Esher Ward seat

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Cllr Richard Williams retained his seat at May 4th’s Elmbridge Borough Council elections. He was first elected in 2019. Richard said, “It’s been a long and quite hard campaign. We are a very small team of very dedicated people who are pretty analogue in the way we campaign. There’s a lot of street trudging and door knocking, but a victory

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A message from Esher’s Councillor Richard Williams

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Unsurprisingly, I haven’t managed to get to meet everyone on the doorstep during this election campaign, but I’d like to thank everyone who has taken the time to chat and to read my manifesto. It’s a great honour to have served Esher’s residents for the past four years and I’m hoping you’ll want to re-elect me. However you choose to

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