Englefield Green County By-election result
Turnout 16.2% (2005 48.9%)
27 Nov 2006
Turnout 16.2% (2005 48.9%)
A vacancy has arisen on Surrey County Council due to the resignation of the sitting Tory member after only two years in post.
At last, after years of wrangling, charges are being introduced in all the council owned car parks. Charges have been operating successfully in the Weybridge town centre car for many years. They are now extended to Oatlands. Charging in the York Road car park will follow later this year.
The responses from local residents to the Primary Care Trust's (PCT) proposals for Weybridge hospital were certainly robust and it looks as if they have made an impression.
Pamela Von Reibnitz, who is standing as the Liberal democrat candidate for the Weybridge South ward, has lived in the area for 34 years. She is married to a teacher and they have two grown-up children who both went to local schools.
As many as 12% (*average) of hard-pressed families across Surrey face being left worse off when the government end the uplift to Universal Credit next month.
Surrey Lib Dems are calling on the Government to make a more ambitious commitment to resettle refugees fleeing the Taliban, and to give Surrey's Borough and District Councils, as well as the County Council, extra funding to house and support them here.
Surrey Lib Dem members who sit on the select committee for Children, Families, Lifelong Learning and Culture have responded to news that the Good Law Project is taking legal action against Surrey County Council.
Lib Dems have secured support for measures that will result in all care leavers in Surrey being exempt from paying council tax from next April.
The local Lib Dems created a petition calling on Surrey County Council to increase the opening times and allow pedestrian access at the Community Recycling Centres in Caterham and Warlingham.
Lib Dem Councillors on Surrey's Police and Crime Panel have criticised the Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner for appointing a £53,550 a year Deputy against the views of the cross-party Police and Crime Panel.