Major Players should pay for Planning Advice
Lib Dem councillors have brought a Motion to the Council asking for charges to be made for advice given by council officers in advance of a major planning application being formally registered.
2 Jul 2010
News
Epsom and Ewell News
Will 769 Signatures Make a Difference?
Epsom & Ewell Lib Dems petition against Blue Badge charges forms part of a report to be debated at a meeting of the Environment Committee on 30th June. This meeting is open to the public and starts at 7.30 at the Town Hall.
25 Jun 2010
More residents dissatisfied with Surrey County Council
A recent survey has revealed that more Surrey residents are dissatisfied with the County Council and its services in 2010 than in 2009. The results of public satisfaction from January to the end of March 2010 were contained in the Joint Neighbourhood Survey, which was commissioned and managed by the Council in partnership with Surrey Police.
22 Jun 2010
High turn out for Stoneleigh Protest
A hundred or so residents turned out for the protest against the closure of the public toilets at Stoneleigh Railway Station.
19 Jun 2010
County Tories defer decision
Despite a call by Lib Dem county councillor Colin Taylor for a quick decision in principle, SCC Tories have voted to defer any decision on the Lib Dem proposal to return to the more democratic Committee System at County Hall. Instead the proposal will be referred to a Select Committee.
16 Jun 2010
Good News for Epsom's Green Belt
Surrey County Council has made a major commitment to protect the Green Belt, following a Liberal Democrat motion debated by the full council on 15th June.
16 Jun 2010
Surrey County Council News
Surrey County Council not following national Press Code, say Lib Dems
Surrey County Council is not following the national "Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity" when issuing press releases about local issues in county councillors divisions.
12 Jun 2012
Lib Dems call for better standard of Highway Repairs across Surrey
Councillor Stephen Cooksey (Dorking and the Holmwoods), the Liberal Democrat Environment and Transport Spokesperson on Surrey County Council, has today called upon the county's Conservative administration to: "take more seriously, the problems that have beset the current highways contracts and to take urgent action to deal with them".
12 Jun 2012
Lib Dem calls for Standards investigation into councillor’s comments
A leading Liberal Democrat county councillor has called on Surrey County Council's Standards Committee to investigate an email sent by Cllr John Butcher, a member of the ruling Conservative group, calling for health policies which would "encourage the self-inflicted to move away from Surrey to areas where there is no differentiation between patients on the grounds of their contribution towards their condition".
7 Jun 2012
Conservatives admit that library plan is a dead parrot
County Council admits plan to run libraries with volunteers will not save Council Taxpayers a penny
29 May 2012
Tweets and a Dead Parrot
Councillor Hazel Watson, Liberal Democrat Leader of the Opposition on Surrey County Council, has tabled the following four written questions to the Leader of the Council for the Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2012.
26 Apr 2012
Lib Dems call on Conservative-run County Council to abandon libraries plan
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have called on the Conservative-run administration to abandon it's ill-conceived and unpopular plans for 10 of the County's libraries to be run by "volunteers" instead of professional librarians.
24 Apr 2012