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Simon 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
Read moreERA AGM 2022
The Esher Residents Association AGM will be held on Tuesday 29th November 2022 at 7.30pm. This year the AGM will be held at Sandown Park. All residents of Esher, Lower Green, West End and Hersham Riverside are invited to attend. In addition to the standard AGM matters, we will have two guest speakers. Adam Chalmers Chief Executive Elmbridge Borough Council
Read moreLast chance to see The Mount Felix Tapestry at Killik & Co.
This beautifully designed and immensely touching exhibition will close on November 15th. Please contact lucy.roshier@killik.com if you’d like to visit it at Killik & Co’s premises on Esher High Street. It is a Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre Project, designed by Andrew Crummy and described on his website as follows: “This beautiful community tapestry tells the story the ANZAC hospital at
Read moreQuiz Supper raises £548 for Mayor’s Charity
The Esher Residents Association’s Quiz and Fish & Chip Supper is becoming a ‘must attend’ event. This year’s Quiz was, as ever, organised by Joan Leifer and her husband, our Chairman, Simon Leifer. It’s very challenging and was won this year by the team that won the wooden spoon last year, to prove that there’s hope for us all! The
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