Surrey Police are holding virtual events on Policing Your Community. Tandridge’s event is this Wednesday, 27 Jan at 7pm. Here’s how to join…
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As part of our ongoing Neighbourhood Plan endeavours to create better walking and cycling routes for the area, we have put in a bid for a way-marked family friendly walking route and separate ‘there and back’ cycle route from Limpsfield Chart to Limpsfield Village.
The December 2020 issue of our newsletter should be finding its way through your doors over the next week if it hasn’t already. Volunteers and councillors are out pounding the pavements, lanes, tracks etc!
Our Limpsfield Village Conservation Area Assessment & Management Plan initial period of consultation comes to an end this Friday, 27th November. Don’t forget to let us know your thoughts by then…
Does your charity or local community group have a great idea for a health & wellbeing project? Applications for the Tandridge Community Fund – grants of up to £2,000 – close 27 November.
The Surrey Young People’s Fund (SYPF), managed by the Community Foundation for Surrey, is offering young Surrey residents assistance in accessing and benefitting from education, training and work experience as a pathway to employment. If you’ve not come cross it before, this very worthwhile fund aims to provide financial assistance for those in need, who would otherwise be unable to achieve their employment goals.
Have you been getting strange texts claiming to be from a bank wanting to verify a payment, or from HMRC claiming you are eligible for a grant or about to be done for non-payment of tax? These are SCAMS.
We are back into Lockdown and while it is not quite as restrictive as last time, many local people will still need assistance with shopping, prescriptions and other supplies during this period. Here is the latest information for local residents during this time.
Over the last few decades as traffic and number of cars has increased dramatically in all cities, towns and villages, parking on or half on pavements has become common practice.
Most towns, cities and villages were not designed to accommodate today’s high traffic levels, but in many locations, especially those residential areas with narrow roads and no driveways, the pavement is the only place to park without obstructing the carriageway.
While this may enable the flow of traffic, it does present significant danger to pedestrians, who are often forced onto the carriageway and into the flow of traffic in order to negotiate their way around parked cars.
Since 1974, parking on pavements, with certain exceptions, has been prohibited in Greater London by the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1974, while the reverse applies to most towns and villages in England, where parking on pavements and verges is permitted unless specifically prohibited by a local authority.
As part of its wider agenda to improve accessible transport, the DfT is seeking views on pavement parking through a consultation process being managed by the Transport Committee. View the consultation and key points here.
Limpsfield Parish Council’s response and thoughts on pavement parking can be downloaded below, as drafted by Cllr Bob Harvey and Neighbourhood Plan Committee Co-optee, Ted Beresford-Knox.
What do you think about parking on pavements? You can take the online survey until November 22nd 2020 when the consultation period ends.
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In August this year, The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government launched a consultation period for its White Paper – Planning for the Future, which proposes a fundamental and wide-reaching reform of the current planning process in England.
The Consultation period has now ended and Limpsfield Parish Council has submitted its response to the proposed reforms…
