Dragon Interview: Patrick Oven, GGG Leader at GBC

Published on: 28 Oct, 2024
Updated on: 28 Oct, 2024

This is the fourth in a series of interviews with, it is hoped, all the party leaders at Guildford Borough Council.

In this interview the man in the spotlight is Patrick Oven leader of the Guildford Greenbelt Group. His group comprises three councillors, a slight improvement from the pre-2023 position of just two members.

In a 30-minute interview, full of interesting views and observations from the GGG perspective, Patrick answers the question is the protection of the green belt a lost cause and what is “grey belt”, his assessment of the current GBC administration, and its finances, openness and his view, as a former criminal barrister of the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) investigation?