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The Ash Aspect: Up To 400 New Homes – But Where Is The Infrastructure?

The Ash Aspect: Up To 400 New Homes – But Where Is The Infrastructure?

By David Reading Life is about to get more stressful for the people of Ash, and I don’t mean because we’re all still fretting about Donald Trump. As most people…

Opinion: We Do Consider Planning Decisions Carefully

By Caroline Reeves Lib Dem borough councillor for Friary & St Nicolas The responsibility for making planning decisions is one that I, and councillors generally, take very seriously. We appreciate…

The Dragon Says: Will There Be Enough Names To Make New War Memorial Viable?

An additional war memorial is being considered to commemorate persons from Guildford who died in military action or service post-Second World War. Guildford Borough Council has announced the plan and is…

Opinion: Guildford – Why Are We A Leading UK Economy?

By Gordon Bridger Hon Alderman and former Mayor of Guildford For the past three years a big British property consultancy company, Lambert, Smith and Hampton, has been producing a table…

Opinion: Guildford, Like Everywhere Else, Is Living Through ‘Interesting Times’

By Martin Giles We appear to be living in the kind of “interesting times” that the Chinese are often said to wish on others as a curse*. World population is…

Opinion: Is Effingham Going Backwards?

By Chris Dick In an earlier article (Hello and Goodbye) about the closure of the Effingham Royal British Legion Club in Lower Road, one reader, Des Tanner commented: “It will…

Opinion: Cuts to Surrey’s Social Services Cannot Go On

Opinion: Cuts to Surrey’s Social Services Cannot Go On

Fiona White Lib Dem county councillor for Guildford West I am shocked! I saw a link from Leonard Cheshire charity to a website about the state of social care in…

Opinion: What Has Happened to Mr Mistry, Second in Command at GBC?

By Martin Giles Nature abhors a vacuum and this is as true with news as anything else, perhaps more so. Where facts are missing rumour steps in. A week or…

Satish Mistry: His GBC Career Summarised

The unexpected departure of Satish Mistry the deputy managing director at Guildford Borough Council (GBC) has been the subject of some speculation among those who follow local council affairs. Here…

Opinion: We Should and Will Remember Them

Opinion: We Should and Will Remember Them

By Martin Giles I am sitting by a window in a restaurant in Chapel Street, surveying the passers by to estimate how many are wearing a poppy, just one day…