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P7 P11 P12 P17 Issue 164 The Newsletter of the Byfleet, West Byfleet & Pyrford Residents’ Association Community spirit renewed during Thursday night clap for the NHS Carers and Support staff Each Thursday night since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many residents in the 3 villages including Romans Way, Pyrford (picture above) have come to their doorsteps and joined the rest of the nation in clapping and clanging saucepan lids in support of the many NHS Staff, Carers, Emergency Services and all Key Workers in their efforts to get this awful pandemic under control. A positive result has been the enhancement of the community spirit which has found many residents staying around for some time afterwards and talking to neighbours they either hadn’t spoken to for a long time or never at all!! featured ARTICLES Messages from Dealing with A message from our Competition our Churches the Coronavirus MP, Jonathan Lord Winners revealed P7 P11 P12 P17 Website: www.the-residents.org Email: [email protected] 2 Editorial Membership Report The decision to publish this issue of The Resident online and make it available to all residents on our website, may mean that you are reading about this Residents’ Association (RA) for the first time. At a time when community cohesion is Message from Surrey County Council so important, the RA membership is We’ve set up a Community Helpline on open to all people over 18 years old, 0300 200 1008 (8am – 6pm Monday Welcome to my first edition of The Resident who reside, have a place of business or to Friday, Saturday to Sunday 10am - magazine which is our first online only version have resided in Byfleet, West Byfleet 2pm) to help direct residents who need due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. This will be or Pyrford and who pay an annual emailed out to members and is also available on added support and to provide advice to subscription of at least £5. Membership The Resident website – www.the-residents.org. residents on where they can register an entitles you to receive the newsletter 3 offer of help to support their community. The RA says thank-you to Isabelle David for times a year (it won’t be freely available being a fantastic and brilliant editor of The going forward) and to receive email Resident Magazine for the last 2 years. I would communications about matters which For full information on the Community like to personally thank Isabelle David for have an impact on life across our Three Helpline, and other Coronavirus her help and support during the handover Villages either now or in the future. advice and support, please visit www. of the editorship role, I know that I have surreycc.gov.uk/coronavirus. very BIG shoes to fill. I joined the Residents’ To find out more, email Association Committee in order to get to know [email protected] more people in the local community and to discover what is going on and to see how I can contribute. I am deeply indebted to Andy Grimshaw, who became “acting” secretary for At the time of writing we are experiencing several years (in addition to all his other a lockdown and social distancing guidelines roles). The current social restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. It is a have meant that the handover process Some Good News... It has been worrying and difficult time for many people is being carried out through a series of confirmed that Boots the Chemist in with vulnerable people having to self-isolate weekly phone calls. And of course, I West Byfleet will stay open until early and many families are separated from each am unable to meet with the Assistant other. We must thank the NHS staff for all their August (opening times may vary). Please Membership Officers from each village dedication and professionalism when dealing contact Boots on 01932 343965 to to understand their critical input work. with Covid-19 patients. Praise and gratitude confirm opening times. must also go to key workers (e.g. carers, shop assistants, waste collectors, postmen/women, A big thank you to our network of Street delivery drivers, police officers, bus and train Representatives who were able to make drivers, volunteers etc…) contact with existing and prospective new members at the beginning of the Local Council and Police and Crime year, before the lockdown came into Commissioner elections have been postponed force. Through all of your efforts the until 2021 and many local events have been membership subscriptions collected Towpath gets overcrowded postponed or cancelled (check diary dates on back page). I hope that you enjoy reading so far in the first three months of 2020 The Basingstoke Canal Authority are Issue 164 of The Resident magazine and that amount to £5,850, nearly 50% of what advising people to try and limit their it provides a slight distraction from all the was raised in 2019. use of the local canal towpath as it is worrying news about the Covid-19 pandemic. becoming overcrowded. The narrow This newsletter is the product of our committee Isabelle David, width of the towpaths makes it difficult and of the residents who give up their time to New Membership Secre tary contribute and support it. to follow social distancing guidelines. Please check the Residents’ Association website for information and contact details for support groups that can provide assistance during Covid-19 pandemic Briony Gardner Beauty Clinic https://the-residents.org/covid-19 Est. 30 years If you have any comments or suggested articles • CACI Ultimate non surgical face lift • Crystal Clear microdermabrasion for all skin types for future editions, it would also be great • Red Vein treatment, Milia and Skin Tag removal • Dermal filler, Electrolysis, Aromatherapy, Hot Stone Massage • Shellac Gel manicure and pedicure • ‘Mylash’ perm lift and to hear what you have all been up to during volume for eyes • Diamond Peel and Glycolic Peel Facials • Gift Vouchers lockdown, please feel free to email at [email protected]. Enjoy wonderful treatments by friendly, experienced therapists Thank you. Tel: 01932 354455 55a Station Approach, West Byfleet Robert Munford, the new Editor Chairman’s Message 3 I am delighted to I have communicated with the Inspector; our welcome Robert Councillors and our Member of Parliament and Getting to know members Munford as our he for his part has raised the matter with the of the Committee: new Editor of The Minister. The Government appears eager that Resident. In the the system continues to operate in a functional STEWART DICK current difficult and practical manner to permit Councils to Chairman of the Residents’ Association circumstances engage in a more “innovative” way. Let us (Byfl e e t West Byfl e e t and Pyrford) Robert has the hope that innovation does not result in the unexpected task community being deprived of its involvement of producing and right to discuss and comment. I await Q. What town were you born in? our first “online” edition. My very great thanks further information. A. Dunfermline in the Kingdom of Fife to Robert’s predecessor Isabelle David. As I said in my last report, Isabelle has done Perhaps when all this is over, we will have an Q. Could you provide a brief overview of a quite remarkable and outstanding job in even greater desire to protect our Green Belt your career? consistently producing a magazine that happily and an enhanced appreciation of the vital A. 5 years at University; 3 years in Accountancy; balances local news; local personalities; various purpose it serves in the well being of our 41 years in the City Of London - Banking. campaigns and most importantly promoted environment, our mental health and our lives. all that is positive in our community. Isabelle Q. What is your favourite Food? As regards SADPD a fundamental issue is the has kindly agreed to become our Membership A. Grouse number and the location of the new homes to Secretary. be built between now and 2027. I am grateful Q. What is your favourite Book? to Councillor John Bond for bringing to my We are again seeking a Planning Coordinator. A. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities attention the recent work of the Office of This is a very important and hands on role George Orwell, Nine t e en Eighty-Four National Statistics that forecasts that Woking within the Residents’ Association. It is one area will be one of the few local authorities in where, working alongside the Neighbourhood Q. If you could live anywhere in the world England and Wales that will experience a Forums, residents do look to us for support. for a year, where would it be? decline in population between now and 2027. A. Rome Lockdown resulted in the cancellation of our Given the wonderful weather that we have Q. Who are your top three real life heroes? community meeting with North West Surrey been enjoying it is all too easy to forget the A. “Hero” is not a word that I choose to use. Clinical Commissioning Group to discuss their extremely heavy and persistent rainfall that It is rather dramatic and all too often has Big Picture programme in general and the future we had over several weeks. It is therefore the potential to disappoint… of the Woking Walk-in Centre in particular. This encouraging to note that the investment in work is now delayed as the strategic and clinical improving flood prevention in Byfleet has heads for this programme have been reassigned However, three people who in some way largely been successful. have played an important part in shaping during the present crisis.
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