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Another successful ERA Quiz and Fish’n’Chips Supper
The ERA Quiz and fish and chip supper on 22nd October was a great success and showed us all that not only are our residents and friends terribly clever (or maybe the questions were too easy!) they are also very generous raising £1,200 for the Oasis Children’s Charity Many thanks to those that attended but also to those who, though were
Read moreRosebriars – what’s in a name?
Local playwright, R C Sherriff is memorialised in Lower Green’s Sherriff Close, but what is Rosebriars? Sherriff Close and Rosebriars are both named for Sherriff, but for different reasons. “Sherriff Close” is an obvious naming but what is his connection to “Rosebriars”? “Rosebriars” was the name of Sherriff’s family home in Esher Park Avenue and, when he died in 1975,
Read moreLest we forget
Images courtesy of Angela Stockbridge
Read moreSimon Waugh presents cheque for £60,000 to Brain Tumour Charity
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
Read moreRichard Williams retains the Esher Ward seat
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
Read moreTwo important Council consultations
There are two important consultations, one is running at the moment and the other will start on March 1st. Please contribute to them both. If Elmbridge gets its way, you won’t be able to see peoples’ comments on Planning Applications. The Planning Committee agreed, by a narrow margin, to remove peoples’ written observations about proposed developments from the Council’s website.
Read moreEsher: the civic heart of Elmbridge
ElmbridgeBC has just published this article on its website: It has never been more important for Esher to come together to discuss its future. Why do you go to Esher? Cinema? Theatre? That lovely Thai restaurant? Work? The Farmers Market? To visit the council? Or to drive through it? The reality is that often people aren’t sure about Esher. Yes,
Read moreDo not let Elmbridge get away with hiding planning comments!
Elmbridge Council’s Planning Committee recently voted, by a narrow margin, to stop publishing letters commenting on planning applications on their website. If they get their way, you won’t be able to go online and see what others think about an application that interests you. Imagine that you couldn’t see other peoples’, often expert, opinions on some of the most recent
Read moreGreen Elmbridge Climate Cafe
Wednesday February 8th (19.15 – 21.00) – Esher (Free event) We hope you will join us for our first of a series of Green Elmbridge ‘Climate Cafe’ public meetings to be held throughout 2023. The format for these climate cafes will include a talk on a particular theme followed by time for members of the different Green Elmbridge community groups or interested individuals to network/chat, relax, catch up and
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Esher Residents Association 