By Chris Caulfield, local democracy reporter and Martin Giles In by-elections, Liberal Democrats have easily held on to two council seats in Woking, one at the borough council and one at Surrey County Council, vacated by MP Will Forster, and they repeated their success in East Bookham.…

UK Students to Launch International Space Mission

A team of students from the University of Surrey are, with fellow students from Portsmouth and Southampton Universities, working to fit equipment they have designed, made and tested, to a suborbital launch vehicle which aims to launch 900km into space. The students travelled to the Etlaq Spaceport…

Retrofit Planned for Guildford Office Building

A town centre office building is to undergo a major retrofit following planning permission being granted by GBC’s Planning Committee to real estate investment adviser Bradda Capital. The scheme involves the transformation of the existing three-storey, 31,000 sq ft office building at 31 Chertsey Street, into what…

Museum Shines a Light on Victorian Send, Ripley and Pyrford

The latest exhibition at Ripley Museum shines a light on the Victorian age. Hosted by Send and Ripley History Society, it says this was “a very important period in the development (or lack of development) of the two villages”. Only one year into Queen Victoria’s reign, the…

Conservationists Celebrate Victory As Fast-food Plan At Nature Reserve Is Turned Down

By David Reading The McDonald’s fast food chain has been refused planning permission to open a drive-through restaurant on the edge of the Tice’s Meadow nature reserve, between Tongham and Badshot Lea. Wildlife conservationists said today (July 10) that they were delighted that the project had been…

Incident in High Street – Man Found Unresponsive

4.30pm – Surrey Police have updated their report of an incident in the town centre this morning. The police statement said: “Following a concern for safety, a man in his 20s was found unresponsive in the area of Leapale Road, at around 2am this morning (July 10).…

Guildford’s First “Bike Bus”

By Bethan Moore Boxgrove Bike Bus organiser Taylor Swift’s Shake it off is playing to the sound of bike bells and cheering as a group of around 15 children and adults ride their bikes around the corner and along the road. The children, in their red school…

Councillors Hear How the Weyside Urban Village Project Became a Multi-million Risk

By Emily Dalton local democracy reporter How did an ambitious 1,650 home development become the “biggest financial risk” to a Surrey council? The Weyside Urban Village (WUV) scheme, led by Guildford Borough Council, could see hundreds of new homes, community buildings, employment space and improved infrastructure built.…

Highways Bulletin: Reimagining Parking with Green Design

The information for this bulletin comes from Surrey County Council and is written by them. See interactive map here. Report potholes…

Opinion: Never Have We Needed the Benefits of the Natural World More

By Catherine Masterman Interwoven with the human scale infrastructure that dominates and regulates our lives – the roads, the trains, the…

SCC Calls on the Government To Protect the Environment

By Emily Dalton local democracy reporter Fears of “irreversible damage” to Surrey’s countryside have prompted calls to change a new planning…

Two-Week Road Closure on Portsmouth Road for Gas Network Upgrade

By Stella Kuchanny Residents, motorists and commuters in Guildford are advised to prepare for upcoming two-week road closure as Southern Gas…