By Martin Giles A large crop fire was burning this afternoon on the southern slopes of the Hog’s Back just to the west of Guildford above Piccard’s Farm.  Smoke could be seen and smelt from a wide area around. (The video clip below shows the fire alight…

Normandy Housing Plan Reignites Concerns Over ‘Damage To Our Community’

By David Reading  Development company Taylor Wimpey has reintroduced plans to build housing on land at Normandy and Flexford – a scheme that caused outrage among local people when it was first put forward just under ten years ago. The site comprises a series of grass and…

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 bill currently going through Parliament. Surrey County Council members have unanimously agreed to call for the central government to change a “deeply damaging” planning bill. Councillors…

A New Dementia Centre for Guildford

A new charity is being set up to develop a much-needed local Dementia Support Hub for the people of Guildford. Dementia, in its various forms and stages, affects many people in the UK’s ageing population.  The Alzheimer’s Society says over 15,000 people in Surrey have been diagnosed…

Lib Dems Easily Hold Three Council Seats in Surrey By-elections

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…

Thames Water Announce Hosepipe Ban – But Not for Guildford

A hosepipe ban has been announced by Thames Water but it is not effective in Guildford (GU) postcodes – yet. The…

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…

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…