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Tory Cllr Manning Demands More Council Transparency on Right-to-Buy Inquiry
By Martin Giles Cllr Nigel Manning, leader of the borough council’s eight-member Conservative group, has issued a demand for more council transparency. The Ash Vale member wants the document commissioning…
Letter: Right-to-Buy Enquiry Will Be A Whitewash
From: Ben Paton In response to: New GBC Working Group To Identify and Stop RTB Income Loss The very councillors implicated in the Right-to-Buy payments problem are now installed to…
Updated: KPMG to Probe Scandal of Hidden £2.7m Right-to-buy Payments to Whitehall
By Martin Giles UPDATED February 24. Both main parties in Guildford council agree an independent review is urgently needed of the reporting system that allowed actually £2.7 million, not £2.3…
Letter: My Further Answers to Section 106 Payment Concerns
From: George Potter Chair of GBC’s Corporate Standards and Governance Committee and borough councillor for Burpham In response to: Concern About Section 106 Money is Misplaced and Alarmist In response…
Letter: For the Sake of the Community, GBC Must Meet Its Section 106 Obligations
From: John Ferns In response to: Concern About Section 106 Money is Misplaced and Alarmist Residents of Ash and Tongham have for a long time been aware of the inadequate…
Letter: The Liberal Democrats Have Failed Us On Social Housing
From: Howard Smith vice-chair Guildford Labour Some Dragon readers might have missed the meeting at Millmead earlier this week of the Joint Executive Advisory Board where we had first sight…
Opinion: Lib Dems Winning Where Exactly?
As part of coverage of the May 6 Surrey County Council election and the by-elections to Guildford Borough Council, we have asked the political parties to provide opinion pieces on…
GBC Expanding Affordable Housing Portfolio to Stop RTB Repayments
GBC plans to build and buy more affordable properties, as well as improving the monitoring and reporting for the right-to-buy (RTB) income and housing revenue account (HRA) programme. This was…
Opinion: Green Shoots of Openness and Transparency Sprout at Millmead
By John Redpath R4GV borough councillor Just more than two years ago, a group of residents formed a new political party. Our mission statement to the electorate was to put…
Letter: Who Didn’t Keep Their Eye on the RTB Ball?
From: Geoff Davis Former lead councillor and Conservative borough councillor for Holy Trinity In response to: Right-to-Buy Enquiry Will Be A Whitewash The inquiry into the RTB “misunderstandings” must be…
See Dragon story: GBC’s Explanation of Major Land Sale Notice Error ‘Borders on Arrogant’ Says Councillor
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