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Letter: New War Monument Should Be Paid For By Subscription

From David Roberts Any monument should be funded by public subscription, as the Victorians often did, rather than from council or government funds. You don’t have to be a pacifist…

Letter: Building Constraints Are Not the Main Problem

From Ben Paton In response to: Unnecessary Protection Has Hampered Guildford’s House Building One of Mr Bridger’s repeated themes is that the so-called ‘shortage’ of housing is the result of…

Letter: Unnecessary Protection Has Hampered Guildford’s House Building

From Gordon Bridger Hon Alderman and former Mayor of Guildford Guildford Borough Council (GBC) has recently published a massive list of difficult to analyse infrastructure proposals for our new Local…

Letter: The Risk of Modelling – It’s the Gusts, Not the Average

From Harry Eve We are used to being wary of propaganda, fake news and the abuse of statistics. In the computer age we should also be wary of the use…

Letter: More Reasons to Oppose Blackwell Farm Development

From Fiona Curtis In response to: Four Reasons to Save the Hog’s Back It is incredible to see how regulations and policies that guide planning are being diluted in order…

Letter: ‘Unhappy’ Effingham Meeting Was Not Reported Accurately

From Liz Hogger Lib Dem borough councillor for Effingham and EVRT committee member I was disappointed to read Chris Dick’s overly negative and in places inaccurate account of Effingham Village…

Letter: Housing Numbers – What is GBC Trying To Hide?

From Graham Richings As many Dragon readers will already be aware, Guildford Borough Council’s (GBC) new draft Local Plan went out for consultation to the public on June 9 and…

Letter: Council Policy Militates Against Open Reporting

From Ben Paton I agree with Barbara Ford’s view as stated in her letter It’s Not Just Journalism Resources. The problem for local news publications is indeed not just a…

Letter: It’s Not Just Journalism Resources

From Barbara Ford The opinion piece, Inadequate Local Journalism Affects Us All is an excellent article.  However, I think both Martin Giles and The Guardian are wrong to lay all…

Letter: Lead Councillor Should Be Held to Account

From Sara Tokunaga See: Guildford Alderman Raises Park & Ride Concerns Surely Cllr Furniss should be held to account for declining to comment on this fiasco and waste of tax payers’…