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Tadworth & Walton Residents’ Association Spring Newsletter 2017 www.tadworthwaltonra.co.uk WALTON SCHOOL MURAL By Timothy Samuel, Walton Headteacher alton on the Hill Primary School was thrilled to be approached by Walton on the Hill Decorative and Fine Arts Society with the offer of some funding for a whole school arts project. We had wanted to complete Wsuch a collaborative artwork for some time and the timing was absolutely perfect as a fabulous professional artist, Steve Porter, had also recently been in touch to share how he works with school. Following a series of emails and a meeting with Steve, it was agreed that he would come in and work with all the children across the school to design and create an art work linked to our local area. Through an assembly and discussion with the children, Steve started to plan a Village ‘Streetscape’ to reflect the local area where the children live. We were thrilled with the results that every child in the school had a hand in creating. Gun Corner By George Curry Chinthurst Partnership Some good news emanating from Chinthurst School as it enters a new partnership with Reigate Grammar School and Reigate St Mary’s Prep School. The new Head Teacher, Miss Catherine Trundle, was Deputy Head at Reigate Grammar and confirms that the school intends to continue to provide a range of destination senior schools including; Reigate Grammar, Epsom College, St John’s The first stage of Walton Forum’s ‘Gun Corner’ community project, Leatherhead and Caterham Schools. They will give early offer entrance under the chairmanship of George Curry, and tireless efforts of local arrangements to Reigate Grammar during Year 5. residents Lin Ferg and Jean Bye, has now been completed with new Catherine Trundle comments, “From the beginning of their journey landscaping, a new bench, bulbs and bushes. Tony Hart of Surrey Hills here, Chinthurst children enjoy a stimulating and exciting learning Garden Maintenance helped with the heavy lifting and plant supplies. environment ensuring they leave as confident learners and happy, well The council will shortly swop the old yellow Surrey CC bin for a new rounded individuals.” As well as their academic studies Chinthurst will Heritage one and the Forum are well advanced with their plans to also focus on drama, music, sport and other activities intended to stretch replace the BT 1980’s telephone kiosk with an original red box to the children. “We seek to educate the whole child and set them on the incorporate a community defibrillator. Funds have come from Reigate & path to fulfilled lives and a happy adulthood,” concludes Miss Trundle. Banstead Community Improvement Fund, Pfizer and other local In the meantime TWRA understands that the planning application businesses and residents. More detail to come in our next Newsletter. previously submitted by the school will not now be pursued. Breech Lane Community Centre Lanes Kindergarten, Pre-School Nursery, Monday-Friday Michelle Williamson - 01737 8142017 - www.laneskindergarten.co.uk Hall is also available to hire for children’s parties, meetings and community get-togethers. To make all this work, we need to be able to consult our membership as fully as possible as and when required. While we now Chairman’s Report have an effective email service and an up to date website, we have Clive Elcome welcomes you. to bear in mind those of you who do not use a computer. Since ‘on demand’ hand deliveries to the door by our Road Stewards would he stated aim of your Association is the preservation of the be impractical, we’d have to arrange and pay for alternative delivery quality of all aspects of our environment. The pressures on us systems which tend to be expensive in this day and age. Thus, we to achieve this seem to have increased enormously over the do urge you to look at local notice boards and to keep an eye on the last few years. We are of course, victims of our own success: ‘Surrey Mirror’ and the ‘Tadworth and Walton Tribune’ which carries TTadworth and Walton are highly desirable places in which to live, for contributions from us. all the reasons with which we are very familiar! As a consequence Our constitution has, for many years remained unchanged. for example, demand by developers for building land is higher than However, acquired responsibility for the Jubilee Woodland has meant ever, while our local Council has its own housing targets to achieve. that it needed updating. The new version will be available at the AGM Increased levels of housing put greater demands on our infrastructure and has been posted on our website as well as on local noticeboards. presenting further challenges. IMPORTANT: We are still short of several road stewards. Please Another example is prevention of incursion into the Green Belt. let us know if you are able to help: otherwise, we may be unable to Balancing this equation without being overtly NIMBY is not easy and cover the whole of the Tadworth and Walton area. so, importantly, we’d like to know how well or otherwise you think Finally, a word of thanks for their contributions to our Committee we’re doing. Your opportunity to tell us will be at our AGM to be held meetings, to our Councillors Victor Broad and Rachel Turner of on Tuesday 23rd May at Chinthurst School beginning at 7.30pm (doors R&BBC, and to Mike Gosling of SCC. Mike is relinquishing his post in open at 7.00pm). If you’re not already a member, you’ll be able to join May and we wish him well with whatever he chooses to do next. A at the door. full tribute to him is included within this Newsletter. Woodland Trust Centenary Wood Update By Jill Bockmeulen Work on the Centenary Wood in Langley Vale continues and on Saturday, 25th February the Woodland Trust held a tree planting day for this project. Approximately 320 volunteers planted just over 7000 trees in two fields on the day and the trees will be clearly seen from The Gallops as they grow. The next planting day will be in the Winter of 2017/2018 as trees (whips) have to be planted when dormant. 2016 TWRA Full Financial Review By Robin Parr-Davies, TWRA Treasurer The full year 2016 Financial Accounts will be sterling work on collecting subscriptions, as Beechams Field. The Surplus in 2016 therefore presented at the AGM on May 23rd. These well as delivering the Newsletters. With the goes some way towards repairing our finances will show an improved financial situation for proportion coming from Standing Orders only following the Public Enquiry and subsequent the TWRA slightly above last year at 36%, it would Appeal related to this case. Whilst Total Income was only slightly above greatly relieve the pressure on our Road We are once again grateful to Pfizer for their the previous year at £11,333 (£11,213 in Stewards if more of our Members could pay by continued financial support which, taken 2015), Total Expenditure was significantly Standing Order and Forms can be readily together with donations from Surrey County down at £8,405 (£16,128 in 2015) thus obtained from any member of the Committee. Council and our own funds were used giving us a Surplus for the year at £2,928 The main difference on Expenditure primarily to support the Tadworth Tree compared to a Loss in 2015 of £4,915. however was that in 2016 there were no large Replacement Programme together with Income from Subscriptions (£6,590) and legal bills incurred. Members will recall that in projects in Walton which are channeled Other Sources such as Donations, (£6,642) 2015 we incurred the last of the legal costs through the Walton Forum such as the were both at similar levels to 2015. Once again associated with Walton Heath Golf Club’s improvement to Gun Corner. We propose to our thanks to all our Road Stewards for their ultimately successful bid to de-regulate continue with these plans and others in 2017. MICHAEL EVERETT & CO. Estate Agents • New Homes & Land Property Lettings & Management 61, Walton Street, Walton-on-the-Hill, Surrey, KT20 7RZ Tel: 01737 814877 Fax: 01737 814860 email: [email protected] www.michael-everett.co.uk 2 Local Matters in Walton & Tadworth By Gillian Hein irst the good news, following Alanna Coombe’s move from the area, we now have a new volunteer to monitor the planning applications for Walton. Thank you Jayne Nallen for coming Fforward; Jayne can be contacted via [email protected]. RECENT WALTON PLANNING DECISIONS Bramley School As is widely known, Bramley School is to close in July. This is both a shock and a loss to the local community. It appears unlikely that the site will remain in educational use. In addition to the site of the school itself, there is a strip of land at the rear that is in the Green Belt and currently used for sports activities linked to the school. If developed, despite its Green Belt designation, this strip could affect the amenities of dwellings ‘Kitlands’ in Chequers Lane that back on to it. RECENT TADWORTH PLANNING DECISIONS ‘Kitlands’ Compared with Walton, there have been comparatively few significant The other large site that will come up for development is ‘Kitlands’, at applications in Tadworth over the last few months. We objected to an the junction of Hurst Drive and Chequers Lane. This is a large site that is application for a new dwelling at 1, Epsom Lane North. This was refused located in the ‘Residential Area of Special Character’ where the policy but another application has recently been submitted, also unsatisfactory emphasis is on generous spacing between buildings with generous tree in our opinion.