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Opinion: Attendance Is Only One Measure of Councillor Performance
By Catherine Houston Lib Dem borough councillor for Shalford See: Borough Council Attendance Rates Decline Measuring councillor “performance” purely by attendance at statutory committee meetings is a blunt instrument and…
Opinion: Cranleigh Deserves a New Leisure Centre – But Costs and Timescales Are Spiralling
By Jane Austin leader of Waverley Council’s Conservative Group and chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee The £4.9 million cost increases and delays for Cranleigh Leisure Centre are astounding –…
Opinion: We Should Pay Councillors Properly
By Brian Creese Labour party activist It is not difficult to find people ready to let us know that we pay “them” too much, “them” being councillors, MPs, ministers, etc.…
Opinion: Insights – What Now For Local Government? Part 2 The Challenges
By Bernard Quoroll former local authority CEO In yesterday’s article I considered further the ramifications of the Local Government Reorganisation. See: What Now for Local Government Reorganisation? The Devil Is…
Opinion: What Now for Local Government Reorganisation? Part 1 The Devil Is in the Detail…..
By Bernard Quoroll former local authority CEO In earlier opinion pieces, I pointed out why this Government was making such a poor fist of local government reorganisation in Surrey and…
Opinion: Is the Death of the Collaborative ‘Compass’ Group at Waverley the End of an Era?
By Jane Austin leader of Waverley Council’s Conservative Group A quiet but significant shift has taken place in our local political landscape. Green councillor Steve William’s recent resignation from Waverley’s…
Opinion: New Joint Scrutiny Committee Weakens Accountability
By Jane Austin and Philip Brooker leaders of the Conservative Group and chairs of the Overview and Scrutiny Committees at Waverley and Guildford Borough Councils The decision to merge and…
Opinion: Voters Should Decide How They Are To Be Governed Locally
By Bernard Quoroll Former local government CEO There is some measure of truth in Cllr George Potter’s comment that this Labour government has no mandate from its manifesto for the…
Opinion: Developer Contributions Should Not Be Supporting Council Budgets
By Jane Austin leader of the Conservative Group at Waverley Borough Council Money pledged to finance much-needed infrastructure should not be left unused by councils for years. The Guildford Dragon…
Comment: What Will the Guildford By-election Tell Us?
By Martin Giles The by-election called following resignation of Fiona Davidson, the former R4GV county councillor for Guildford South East, is the first opportunity to test the political temperature in…
I'm living well for nothing at all! (See: No Trifling Matter: Magpie Trapped in Godalming Sainsbury’s)
Next stop, Debt Chasm! (See: We Should All Be Outraged About the Failure to Deal with Legacy Debt)
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