The Borough Council is embarking upon widespread consultation concerning proposals to charge Blue Badge holders for parking in its car parks. The survey has been sent to 52 local groups via the Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) and to several other local stakeholders. It is available on the council's website until 17th May and will be sent to the council's own Citizens Panel. More consultation via Focus groups will take place on 27th May.
When the Lib Dems put questions to the council, they did not expect the torrent of party-political statements which were produced as answers.
A huge fund-raising effort is underway to raise £300,000 for local boy Adam Bird who has neuroblastoma. Adam's siblings are pupils at Wallace Fields Junior School. The money will pay for vital treatment in America.
Four formal questions about the Blue Badge parking fiasco are being presented to tonight's meeting of the full council in Epsom & Ewell.
The Department of Health estimates that as much as £800 million worth of medicine prescribed in primary care is wasted every year. There is another option.
After considerable debate the planning committee has passed the latest proposals from Solum. An existing planning permission could have gone ahead if the latest application had been refused.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are asking "Where is Conservative-run Surrey County Council's Budget?"
The Government introduced the Feed-in-tariffs (FiT) to encourage early take up of renewable technology in April 2010. Surrey County Council finally approved a scheme to install solar panels on 25 buildings in July 2011. Yet when the Government announced a cut to the FiT rate, they still had not installed a single solar panel.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council have condemned the censorship of e-mails to Members of the Council.
The gathering Eurozone crisis - particularly the dramatic summit on Friday when David Cameron dug his heels in - has generated a variety of comments from Lib Dem spokespeople.
Liberal Democrats on Surrey County Council are presenting a motion to next week's Full Council raising concerns about the County's performance with regard to child adoption and children in care.
