By Martin Giles The much-trailed loosening of planning laws announced in the Queen’s speech this week will give developer’s a much freer hand, experts have warned. Further restriction of the…
May 13, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreFrom: Sue Reeve In response to: Solum Wants 65 More Homes on ‘Great Wall of Guildford’ It seems to be the case that every time a developer gets planning permission…
April 5, 2021 / 1 Comment / Read MoreFrom: Bibhas Neogi In response to: GVG Outlines Vision of 21st-Century Town Centre I welcome GVG’s letter pointing out the aspects that need consideration when drawing up the town centre…
February 23, 2021 / No Comment / Read MoreBy Bill Stokoe Chair of the Guildford Vision Group The next step in the town centre master plan (TCMP) process has been voted through. Funds are now available for working…
February 21, 2021 / 2 Comments / Read MoreBy Martin Giles Taking my cue from Koko, the Lord High Executioner, in Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado, I have, at the beginning of this new year, drawn up my own…
January 3, 2021 / 3 Comments / Read MoreBy Martin Giles and Julie Armstrong local democracy reporter Fears that high-rise buildings might be allowed to dominate Guildford town centre were echoed in two other Surrey boroughs this week.…
December 17, 2020 / No Comment / Read MoreCommunity engagement for planning the long-overdue redevelopment of Guildford’s North Street begins this month, as St Edward Homes agrees terms with the borough council. St Edward, a Berkeley Group and…
December 8, 2020 / 5 Comments / Read MoreBy Hugh Coakley Five years after a petition from residents for action on the peak hours congested road, a one-way trial on Walnut Tree Close is finally going ahead. Reaction…
November 30, 2020 / 4 Comments / Read MoreFrom: Julian Lyon In response to: Time to Move On to Managing Delivery of the Local Plan Strategic Sites As Cllr Paul Spooner is well aware, the Savills team I…
October 28, 2020 / 1 Comment / Read MoreFrom: Gordon Bridger hon alderman and former Mayor of Guildford In response to: Now It Is My Turn to Urge Faster Progress It was Paul Spooner’s Conservative party, while in…
October 14, 2020 / 3 Comments / Read More
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