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News and information from East Horsley Parish Council SUMMER 2017 May Poll – Glenesk Style

INSIDE THIS ISSUE Opera Gala First Night Place Neighbourhood Plan Annual Parish Meeting FAREWELL SW TRAINS Meet the Traders Pt. III Wisley – Prepare for Battle see feature on page 4 SUMMER 2017

Editor’s Note… Wisley Planning Appeal It’s not often that a brand new opera house magically appears on your …you have your say doorstep. Yet earlier this month saw the glittering opening night of the Theatre in WISLEY PROPERTY INVESTMENTS claimed in publish the results on our website and in the the Woods when local residents mingled their submission that local support is broadly September newsletter. with celebrities to enjoy a world-class in favour of the development. East and West This emerging picture is also consistent with Horsley Parish Councils decided to launch the consultation comments made on the GBC performance of Tosca. Also featured this their own survey to gauge public opinion with Local Plan. residents submitted more month are performances of Jenufa, Die a survey hand delivered to every resident. than 1,400 comments concerning the Wisley Walkϋre and a special concert featuring It included questions concerning the likely Development. We have analysed them and Bryn Terfel and Zenaida Yanowsky. impact of the development on medical services, found that 96% of these comments objected to Some residents have expressed concerns schools, traffic flows and car parks. the scheme with less than 2% in favour. Yet still about noise and traffic and doubtless To date Community Action has received GBC have retained Wisley Airfield as a strategic there will be teething issues but in due nearly 1,000 returns. This represents an excellent development site in the revised Local Plan. level of response – so thank you to everyone who The public inquiry begins in Guildford on course these will be addressed and surely took the time to complete this survey. 19 September 2017 but submissions of Proofs resolved. Overall, the arrival of the opera From the returns processed so far, it of Evidence have to be with the Planning house has been warmly received. Many seems that the overwhelming majority of Inspectorate by 8 August – meaning there is a local people have found temporary Horsley residents are strongly opposed to the lot to do in a short time. employment; others are renting out proposed Wisley Airfield settlement. We will Robert Taylor rooms to opera staff. More than 130 residents entered the competition to win tickets to the opening night and we must thank Grange Park Opera for donating the tickets and Clerk’s Column congratulate our lucky winners, Rod and …from the Office of the Clerk Margaret Newman of Forest Road. Once the curtain has come down for this Volunteering in the East year, the builders will be back on site to complete decorations and landscaping. Horsley Community Thereafter the next question will surely be, East Horsley is fortunate that it has the Diocese of Guildford, Neighbourhood what happens for the 42 weeks each year many residents who will step out of their Connections has been launched. The when the opera is not in residence? The comfortable homes and work for the aim of Neighbourhood Connections is to Mary Roxburghe Trust has announced community. In the past year there have help vulnerable and isolated individuals to ambitious plans to create an been two litter picks, three working parties have more fulfilling lives. arts centre in the outbuildings at Wellington Meadow, bulb planting, road As you will see from Stephen Skinner’s that surround West Horsley sign cleaning and of course the hugely article, Surrey County Council and Place. Maybe the Theatre in successful Queen’s 90th Birthday Party. Guildford Borough Council are no longer the Woods will become part The Speed Watch team works hard to able to provide the breadth of services of that. We wish them improve road safety. they once did as grants from central well and look forward to Work on the Neighbourhood Plan government cease. seeing how this exciting has been intense and this will have For East Horsley to maintain its status project progresses. an influence on how East Horsley as a great place to live more will be progresses in the next 15 years. expected of the residents. Steve Harvey You will have recently received a “Living If you have skills that you think may [email protected] and Ageing Well in the Horsleys” booklet; benefit your community or you just want this shows the voluntary groups that to get stuck in please contact me. focus on making life better for the Nick Clemens Front cover: pupils at Glenesk School practising elderly. From collaboration with these [email protected] for their Summer Fair on 18 June two groups, Horsley Medical Practice and

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Local residents (two and four-legged variety) inspect the Neighbourhood Plan

Open House for East Horsley Neighbourhood Plan Neighbourhood Plan our plan – our future AS PART OF the process of developing a once a Neighbourhood Plan is in place). the consultation draft and thanks to the comments Neighbourhood Plan, there is a statutory Thank you – it was great to see such interest in received the Plan should now become even better.” requirement to consult with residents. As well as the future of our village, with a healthy number of Once the draft plan has been reviewed using the website and e-mail lists, we decided to completed feedback forms to prove it! and amended by the Steering Group it will be hold an ‘Open House’ at the Village Hall. We are now sifting through these and all passed on to Guildford Borough Council who So on the day itself, we were ready! The other responses to the consultation. Alan will then take over the management of the banner promoting the event had been set up Gilbertson, who is nobly collating them all, says process, including a referendum, which should on the grass at Station Parade, posters adorned “There has been a wide spectrum of comment, take place towards the end of this year. the shop windows and leaflets were handed addressing many points of detail, which the My thanks go to all those who helped out in the village and at the stations. The team will need to work through carefully before make the event such a success, particularly Village Hall had an impressive array of stands adjusting the Plan ready for ‘examination’ by an highlighting the dedicated work by Brenda with information about the overall plan as well expert appointed by Guildford Borough Council. Aldred and Stephen Groom. as more details of the specific policy areas – Those commenting were nearly all supportive of Catherine Carr Housing, Environment, Infrastructure and Local Economy. Volunteers were on hand to deal with those interested in finding out more about the underlying philosophy and specific plans. It just needed the residents to come along – and you did – in good numbers throughout the day. Pleasingly there was a spread of age ranges, with a good number of our younger residents interested in finding out more about the plans and discussing with the Steering Group and Policy Groups any concerns or suggestions for changes. Two well attended Question and Answer break-out sessions discussed topics such as the housing mix, the need to expand the Medical Centre, disabled access for our two railway stations, rebuilds and infilling and the use of the Community Infrastructure Levy (money that comes to the Parish Council from developments Q & A sessions were well attended

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Ode to SWT So farewell South West Trains Your familiar colour scheme Made commuters see red No toilets No air conditioning and often No seats Change of franchise? No sweat The Train Now Arriving in 2020… has toilets, air conditioning and Wi-Fi! SOUTH WEST TRAINS, owned and operated by construction work associated with the on and South West Trains are still using trains by Stagecoach, has lost its franchise to a new extension of platforms to accommodate ten on the Horsley line that were built for British operator, South Western Trains, a joint venture carriage trains. Rail between 1982 and 1985! A refurbishment between FirstGroup and the MTR Corporation In 1995, South West Trains was one of the project in 2012 introduced new seating and of Hong Kong. The switchover will take place first of the privatised rail franchises and, on 4 wider doors but, unlike similar units operated on 20 August 2017, at a time when services February 1996 ran the first privately operated by Southern Trains, trains were not equipped into Waterloo will be severely restricted service out of Waterloo for 48 years. 20 years with air conditioning, which makes for some very sticky and uncomfortable journeys during the summer months, not to mention Improving South Western Railway the absence of toilets, which also results in Delivering £1.2bn investment further discomfort! The good news is that South Western Trains plans to invest £1.2 billion in brand new

Reduction in fastest London 30% typical off-peak Waterloo rolling stock by December 2020. The new Improved Increased New trains or journey time journey times capacity services Doubling trains, likely to be Bombardier Aventras, will trains to Brentford London Windsor Clapham Hounslow Junction have air conditioning and toilets. Stations and Reading Richmond trains will have Wi-Fi and, get this, there will 30% more Bristol Reduction in fastest Wimbledon seats into Temple Meads typical off-peak 12% Wokingham journey time Waterloo in the be charging sockets for mobile phones and morning and Bath evening peaks tablets at every seat. Over 400 Spa more Basingstoke Woking Sunday Westbury A new timetable is promised for December services Reduction in fastest New Farnham 2018 that will feature more early morning and typical off-peak 13% to Guildford journey time service late night trains and there will be more seats in 750 new suburban vehicles Salisbury Farnham Guildford providing faster & the morning and afternoon rush hours in and more comfortable journeys Exeter out of Waterloo. St David’s Southampton Additional 1 train per hour A new customer app will become the Reduction in fastest Central between Portsmouth typical off-peak 10% and Southampton Portsmouth line: primary source of travel information and mobile Increased journey time • 4 trains per hour commuting between London capacity Bournemouth and Portsmouth ticketing for passengers and a £2.6 million New direct services Portsmouth & Southsea • Dedicated fast from Portsmouth Portsmouth Harbour rolling stock annual ‘Customer and Community Fund’ will be to Weymouth Reduction in fastest 9% typical off-peak launched in April 2020. It will be interesting to Weymouth journey time

Earlier see what savings have to be made to cover the service from Shanklin by December 2020 cost. Driver only trains maybe?

4 www.easthorsley.info EAST HORSLEY PARISH COUNCIL NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2017 A Night at the Opera After much excitement and speculation (plus a few grumbles along the way), Grange Park Opera opened the doors to The Theatre in the Woods, the brand new opera house situated in a field behind West Horsley Place.

THE FIRST THING to say is that the building and very kindly donated a couple of tickets for the surrounding amenities are far from finished. opening night for a competition for residents Once the current season is over the contractors of East Horsley and we congratulate Rod and will be hard at work to complete the building Margaret Newman of Forest Road for answering and associated landscaping. Yet to be able to the questions correctly and being first out of the open at all after a mere 11 months construction hat in our lucky draw. Tickets are still available was a triumph and meant that the opera for this season’s performances and founder company could demonstrate to theatregoers Wasfi Kani has already revealed that the 2018 that the new opera house was not just a season will feature the much loved Rodgers and pipedream but a reality. Grange Park Opera Hammerstein musical Oklahoma. Can’t wait!

Bamber Gascoigne resplendent in white tuxedo

The stage setting for Tosca

A tent, table and chairs are available for dining Introducing opera to a younger audience

Rod and Margaret Newman receive their winning tickets from Bamber A tranquil setting for a picnic

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Chairman Stephen Skinner addressing the Annual Parish Meeting on 9 May 2017 State of the Village Address 2016-2017 At the annual Parish Meeting in May, Chairman of East Horsley Parish Council, Stephen Skinner, gave the following address, which we have pleasure in reprinting, as highlights for a wider audience.

STEPHEN SKINNER SAID: “I consider myself Thanks are also due to partners of So what have been the main projects a very lucky Chairman as not only am I living councillors who get involved, for example, over the past 12 months? in such a wonderful village but I also get to John Carr’s wife, Catherine, running the • East Horsley Neighbourhood Plan is now work with colleagues who are hardworking, Neighbourhood Plan Committee. Then there is nearing completion dedicated, and passionate about maintaining Brian Aitcheson, husband of Councillor Aileen • The Wisley Appeal, now scheduled for and indeed improving our environment. Aitcheson. He kindly repaired a Parish Council 19 September 2017 in Guildford Firstly, I wish to thank my Vice Chair JOHN sign and helps regularly at events. • Neighbourhood Connections leaflet – CARR with whom I have worked closely over the Then there is the Newsletter, what a great tackling isolationism – an initiative from The last 12 months. His strengths have contributed addition to village life. It started out as a Horsley Medical Centre and delivered to all greatly on the Finance and Risk Committee. In simple four-page document, but now runs properties in the village January, we co-opted STEVE PUNSHON on to to 12-pages distributed four times a year. • The Luncheon Club based at the Canterbury the Council and he is already fully at work. It is We are suitably proud of this achievement Room at St Martin’s Church always good to bring in new talent – and I am and we must thank Steve Harvey, Brenda • Keep East Horsley Beautiful Week in looking forward to working with Steve in the and Councillor Stephen Groom for their September coming years. professionalism and hard work. • The traffic-calming project in Ockham Road The village website goes from strength to Recently our village clerk, Nick Clemens, • The two flagpoles soon to be erected in strength as a source of information for the and I went to visit Forest Row Parish village so we can better celebrate state community. A recent initiative has resulted in Council in Sussex, regarded by many as a occasions and patron saint’s days. its constant display in the village, for example shining example of how Parish Councils We are responsible for open spaces, and one I at Posh Wash and Goose. I would like to thank should function. would like to talk about is Kingston Meadow, our webmaster Brenda Aldred for all her work Forest Row has the same number of site of the Village Hall including the Parish on this project, with help from Keith Noble properties as East Horsley, its precept however Council offices, the MUGA (the Multi Use Games to ensure the website is compatible with the is four times that of our village – and it Area), the exercise area and the BMX track and TV screens. EMPLOYS 17 MEMBERS OF STAFF!!! our brand new skateboard park.

6 www.easthorsley.info EAST HORSLEY PARISH COUNCIL NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2017 Diary of Local Events To have your event or activity listed here, please send details by email to either: • [email protected] or • [email protected] Local Dramatics The Whips West Horsley Village Hall Box Office 01483 284141 Chief Inspector Terri Adderley meets residents Next production 19-21 October Two one-act plays. Casting from 28 June. The Nomad Theatre Bishopsmead, East Horsley Box Office 01483 284747 Theatre open Saturdays 10.30-12.30pm Nomes Youth Theatre Musical Mayhem 30 June-2 July 7.30pm weekend matinées 2.30pm, tickets £10/£7 All the Nomes groups join together to present a selection of drama and singing from a variety of popular musicals. Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson 5-8 July 7.45pm, tickets £12/£10 In this often hilarious tragi-comedy, three Margaret Read receives The Mayor’s Award sisters come together before their mother’s for Service to the Community Rex Butcher with gleaming road sign funeral, each haunted by their own demons. Play in a Week Directed by Brandon McGuire It was also the site of the fantastic Queen’s • A free GLUTTON pavement cleaning 24-30 July 7.30pm, Saturday matinée 90th Birthday Celebration and Arts Festival. machine to enable us to improve the walking 2.30pm, tickets £13 What a brilliant day it was with so many people conditions on the pavements of East Horsley Project enabling actors with disabilities to turning up to help us celebrate in style. My but we will need volunteers to help us or this participate in public performances. very special thanks must go to Ruth Banks and project will falter. Ember Big Band Councillor Lindy Elliott. Saturday 9 September at 8pm What of the future for the meadow? We are However the money has pretty much Tickets: £15 Come and hear the big band sound! now looking to add a public toilet to the facility. run out. The Ember Big Band is a not-for-profit line-up It will reduce strain on the Village Hall (not to Last month SCC announced that: of 23 talented musicians that made its debut mention the surrounding bushes) and will bring • Rights of way maintenance is to be reduced in March 2015. relief all round. by 75% over a five-year period www.emberbigband.uk • Vegetation clearance: normally 500 miles of The Nomads Theatre would like to apologise But what do we do when the money pathways cut back – to be reduced by 70% for the inconvenience the building work for the runs out? • Signage: only statutory roadside signage will new Green Room has been causing. They hope Those people who attended this meeting last be undertaken, so thanks to Rex Butcher and it will be finished in July when the car park will year will remember a presentation by John Furey, Councillor Andrew Franklin who stepped into be restored to normal capacity. of Surrey County Council. It was an ‘interesting’ the breach and took it upon themselves to Horsley Choral Society and provocative talk and included a commitment clean various signs and, where they could, HCS Autumn Season starts: Monday 4 that works required on local roads and drainage repaired them (see photo). September at East Horsley Village Hall could be pursued as a joint undertaking with SCC It is obvious that what we have seen in the last 8-10pm. New members of all voice parts matching contributions from EHPC – the new few years from both SCC and GBC – that of higher welcome. Rehearsals will start for the age of partnership was born!! charges and at the same time reduced services – is choir’s concert to be held on 3 December But now we are told that, despite a £7million going to continue and probably at a faster rate. at St Andrew’s Church, Cobham, with a surplus there is no money to undertake our We at the Parish Council are very proud of the performance of Handel’s Messiah Part 1 and, requested and essential work. village and it is clear from the support we get from in addition, the famous Hallelujah (chorus), residents that you wish to maintain the village as a together with Christmas music and carols. So what is EHPC looking to do this safe, welcoming and attractive place to live. For further information, please visit coming year? You might be aware that we recently raised www.horsleychoralsociety.com or email On the 3 May SCC announced a new strategy on the village precept for the first time in ten years. [email protected] surface repairs. Larger surfaces not undertaken, Whilst it was only a token amount of £5 per Band if a pathway/footpath cannot be made safe with D household, it gives us a fighting fund to engage St Martin’s Church no cost then it will be closed. a barrister to help us combat the proposed Wisley Project to resurface Station Parade scheduled Development. I have had only positive reactions Film Clubs for August. to this from people in the village. Family Cinema, first Friday in the month Other recent Parish Council projects include: I am proud of our Council and our job is made 5pm film with pizza. Call 01483 282038 • Replacing the damaged road sign at the easier because of the support that we have Spiritual Cinema, third Sunday in the junction of Forest Road and Ockham Road from the village. The challenges we face are month film with supper. Call 01483 283713 • Improved signage to ease parking at only going to intensify in the coming years but Bishopsmead Parade and provide information I believe that we are motivated and driven to Seated dance class at Wellington Meadow achieve much on behalf of the community.” Held at 2.15pm on Monday afternoons at St Martin’s Court 01483 282038.

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Meet our Traders#3 WE LOVE OUR traders and wish them every and Manmeet have completely refurbished received from all success in growing their business. Our traders the Forest Road General Store, now renamed the residents of the are the lifeblood of the village, supplying Effingham Mini Mart. As well as an extensive village. We look a variety of services from fresh food, spa range of groceries, fresh fruit and vegetables and forward to serving treatments, newspapers, real estate services, freshly baked breads and pastries, there is an you for many years coffee and cake and a haircut. In part three ATM and Costa coffee machine. to come.” of our four part series, we invite you to get Peter says, “Both Manmeet and I feel Look out for the final to know your traders. New proprietors Peter extremely humbled by the warm welcome part of the series in the Autumn.

Manmeet Laghmani, Peter Takkar Max Broadhurst-Jones, Conor Cook, Ron Cornwall

Vicky Bridger, Sue Gibbs, Mark Elderfield, Suzanne Condon, Mandy Sayers Xu Li

Brian Turner, Lesley Stammers Andrew Halliwell, Alyson Reay, Graham Clarke, Richard Wallington

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LA MERIDIANA

Wieslaw, Sarah, Dante, Giovanni, Nick, Manuel, Pietro, Pippo, José

Swee Siow, Lilian Siow, Richard Burton, Harry Burton, Sario da Costa Sascha Sethupathy, Luise Sethupathy, Jake Alexander

Ratnasingam and Roshini Rammeash with daughter Mitty Florence Mills, Robin Johnston, Laura Church

Tracey Butler, Tony Malvasi, Julia Mansfield, Helen Reed Grant, Sara, James, Melanie, Carolyn, Sofija

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Otherwise, the current version contains little change that affects the Horsleys; specifically, the following sites remain in the Plan: • in East Horsley site A39 for 100 dwellings Wellington Update bounded by existing housing on the west side of Ockham Road North, the playing field Meadow Guildford at the end of Weston Lea, the railway and Residents will be familiar with Wellington Meadow, Lollesworth Wood; on the other side of the A246 from The Duke of • in West Horsley, the sites at or adjacent to Wellington and Thatchers. It was acquired by Manor Farm off East Lane (Site A38, 135 East Horsley Parish Council some years ago and, Local Plan dwellings) and Waterloo Farm off the west following consultation with residents, it has been side of Ockham Road North (Site A40, 90 managed as a wildflower meadow ever since. LAST YEAR’S CONSULTATION on the draft Local dwellings); and Footbridges were built over the ditches, and Plan generated over 6,000 replies with 30,000 • Wisley Airfield (Site A35) – though the a path was cut around the north-east side. This separate comments. A further consultation is capacity of this site has been reduced from path forms part of the village link to the Lovelace now underway on the revised plan. 2,150 to approximately 2,000 dwellings. Bridges Trail. A second path was cut more recently Three of the major changes to the plan since It is important to note that in the forthcoming and the two paths together provide a circular the previous version are: consultation GBC will accept only comments route for a pleasant walk around the meadow. The • in East Horsley, the site at Thatchers Hotel, on the changes since the 2016 consultation. Parish Council keeps the paths mown and arranges site A36, 48 dwellings, has been removed; (All revisions between the 2016 and 2017 for an annual mow of the meadow and banks. • in West Horsley, the site adjacent versions will be clearly marked in published The Parish Council has decided to add a number of facilities to encourage greater use to East Lane and Lollesworth drafts by means of red changes – underlined by residents. Specifically, the Parish Council will Lane, site A41, 90 dwellings, is for inclusions, or struck through for provide two information boards and lecterns out; and deletions.) All previous public comments that – similar in “look and feel” to the information • the major strategic site remain unchanged in the current version boards and lecterns in Great Ridings Wood and in Normandy is no longer of the Plan will be carried forward and The Forest – and two three finger sign posts. there. (The proposal now presented to the Planning Inspector The Horsley Countryside Preservation Society is to accommodate a when the draft Plan undergoes its (“HCPS”) has agreed to provide some of the secondary school as well public examination (currently expected funding needed for these items. In addition, as housing at Blackwell to be in early 2018). HCPS will donate a bench in memory of Robert Farm on the Hog’s Back; Full details are available at Agar, a committee member of HCPS who sadly the need for a new school www.guildford.gov.uk/newlocalplan/ died just before Christmas. was the main justification for proposedsubmission NB A number of vehicles have been advertised the Normandy site). David Reeve, GBC Councillor for sale recently by leaving them unattended on publically owned land or on the public roads in the Horsleys and Effingham. We are hopeful that this will be resolved in the near future by the landowner Horsley Community Fund Update (Surrey County Council). THE HORSLEYS COMMUNITY FUND give nine grants totalling over £7000 with a (incorporating the Lady Noel Byron Nursing number still pending. Since inception we have Association) is a significant local initiative given nearly £30,000 to 27 organisations and specifically for the benefit of the Horsleys and some individuals – this is something of which its residents. The Fund enables people who love the Horsleys should be very proud. The ongoing the Horsleys to donate money for the exclusive social care crisis will increase demands for benefit of the villages and their people. With your grants over the coming years, making this Fund help we can help build a stronger community by more and more critical for our villages. supporting local causes that can make an impact There are many ways in which to get involved and that will empower the Horsleys to help including fundraising or being a Panel member themselves now and in the future. or applying for a grant – call Clare Mathias on For sale? Not here please! In the last year alone we have been able to 01483 281755 or [email protected] A Thousand Miles, Ten Days & £10,000 WHEN EAST HORSLEY resident Dan Page lost his or less. He has set himself a target of £10,000 brother, Andy, to lung cancer back in March, he and hopes that all readers of this newsletter felt motivated to get on his bike and raise some will support his endeavours by making a cash for two important cancer charities, Marie donation. There’s tons of information including Curie and Macmillan. At the end of July, he is sponsorship opportunities and a route map on a setting off on a solo bike ride from John O’Groats special website www.1000milesonabike.com to Lands’ End, a distance of approximately 1,000 miles, which he aims to complete in 10 days

Dan Page

10 www.easthorsley.info EAST HORSLEY PARISH COUNCIL NEWSLETTER SUMMER 2017 WEST HORSLEY PLACE TO BECOME ARTS CENTRE THE MARY ROXBURGHE TRUST, owner of to provide flexible space for crafts such as West Horsley Place, has launched an ambitious ceramics, printing, sculpture, metalwork and plan to turn the numerous outbuildings that glasswork. The upper floors will provide space surround the main house into a centre for for pursuits such as painting, jewellery, fabrics the learning of arts and crafts. Local residents and papermaking. had the opportunity to meet Bamber and the The restored main barn will provide a setting Director of the Mary Roxburghe Trust at a recent for events, conferences, community uses, public consultation event at West Horsley exhibitions, performances and celebrations Village Hall. including weddings. In addition, there are plans The plans call for the removal of the modern to open a small gift shop and café as well as a steel-framed farm sheds and the restoration space for visitors and local schools to learn more of the early 18th century stables and barns about the rich history of West Horsley Place.

The planned arts centre Bamber Gascoigne and Peter Pearce

WITHIN LIVING MEMORY No Trouble at Mill (for now) German Bomber RESIDENTS IN HONEYSUCKLE BOTTOM Lane can sleep easily in their beds now that the Sawmill works at the end of the lane have Buzzes Horsley withdrawn plans for a biomass plant burning woodchips 24/7 to generate electricity. Local IN 1982 CAROL SALTER recorded the recollections Canadian Battery Sergeant Major, billeted with residents as well as organisations such as East of East Horsley residents and published them the family, hurtled out of the house, his dripping and West Horsley Parish Councils and the in a book entitled ‘Within Living memory’. The torso draped in a bath towel, bundled them back Council for the Protection of Rural England following is an extract from the book which is inside and threw them to the floor alongside submitted more than 30 letters objecting to the now available in village post offices. him. The next second they heard ear-splitting plans on the grounds of noise, pollution, traffic The internationally renowned bird artist, the machine gun fire, as the plane passed overhead. and encroachment on the Green Belt. late Basil Ede, was a young adolescent in East As soon as the immediate danger passed, Horsley during the war years. Like many who Basil rushed outside and saw a Spitfire were children in wartime, he has exceptionally executing a tight turn above the village. It vivid memories of that period. chased after the Dornier and is believed to have One overcast Saturday afternoon, most shot it down in the vicinity of Farnham. probably in 1941, 10-year-old Basil and his Another person who remembers this incident family were in the garden of their Glendene is Mrs Rene Woods (nee Cohen). She was driving Avenue home when Basil thought he heard along Glendene Avenue in her open tourer with the approaching roar of heavy aircraft engines, a carload of evacuee children, including Sheila undoubtedly German and almost certainly those Lamb who was living with the Cohen family of a Dornier. He was frozen to the spot with and Sheila’s friend John Osmond. Rene saw the a mixture of apprehension and curiosity. The machine gunner, stopped the car and yelled to noise reached a crescendo as a large twin engine the children to take cover. They all dived into a Dornier 215 heavy bomber came into view above ditch and were unharmed, but badly shaken. the treetops, very low, filling the sky above him. Afterwards machine gun bullets were found in Fascinated, Basil’s gaze was drawn to the front the village. gunner in his turret. For a moment it seemed as (Ed. Note: Basil Ede sadly died, aged 85, on The Shere Sawmill though their eyes met. Suddenly, Jack, the huge September 29th 2016)

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Your Parish Parish Council News Councillors Parish Council Meeting Dates The Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Website 100 starts in Queen Elizabeth Olympic The Parish Council meets generally The Parish Council website has been Park, London, then follows a 100-mile every six weeks on a Monday at 7.30pm showing on monitors in shops around the route on closed roads through the in the Lovelace Room at the Village village. It has meant that news displayed Stephen Skinner capital and into Surrey’s countryside. Hall. Residents are invited to attend and on the site reaches more people and we Chairman The Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100 [email protected] can address the Council during Public have had much favourable feedback. finishes on The Mall in central London, Question Time, usually at 8pm. Thanks go to Posh Wash, Goose Deli shortly before 150 professional cyclists • 19 June and Quaich for hosting the site in the race in the Prudential RideLondon- • 17 July past year. If your shop has a window that Surrey Classic on a similar route. • 18 September would take the screen we would like to Once again the A246 will be closed on • 16 October hear from you so that a rota can be set up. Sunday 30 July at the Clandon lights with • 4 December lots of other road closures throughout Community Speedwatch – John Carr Planning and Environment Surrey. More details about the 100 race Vice Chairman at www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/ call for volunteers [email protected] Committee Dates events/100/ Are you concerned about traffic speeding The Planning and Environment through our village? The Speedwatch Committee meets every two weeks or End of year Audit March 2017 Team, with their bright fluorescent so on Mondays (unless otherwise stated) The Parish Council’s annual return jackets, play a vital role in reminding at 7.30pm in the Lovelace Room at the needs to be reviewed by an external drivers to keep to 30mph. The team is Village Hall. Residents are invited to speak auditor appointed by Public Sector Audit keen to recruit new volunteers to assist for or against Planning Applications on Appointments Limited. Any person in this vital work so if you can spare a few Stephen Groom [email protected] the Agenda. interested has the right to inspect the hours each month, please contact Nick • 20 June accounting records for the financial year to Clemens on 01483 281148. • 3, 18 (Tuesday) and 31 July which the audit relates. Documents will be • 21 August available June to July 2017. Call The Parish • 4, 19 (Tuesday) September Clerk for more information 01483 281148. • 2, 17 (Tuesday) and 30 October Posh Wash Collection Point Village Litter Pick Saturday Linda Elliott Please remember to drop off food and [email protected] 16 September toiletries at Posh Wash for donation to a Twice a year we have a communal Village local Food Bank. Litter Pick. This is an opportunity for us all to help keep our village looking attractive, Street sweeper – another prevent pollution and protect wildlife appeal for volunteers from dangerous or excessive debris. The When leaves and debris get washed council provides tabards, gloves and into the gutter they get crushed by litter pickers. Litter picking can be very Aileen Aitcheson passing cars and the sludge washes into New editor required for [email protected] rewarding and is an opportunity to get the drains. The result – blocked drains, Newsletter out and make new contacts in the village. flooded roads and soaked pedestrians. The Litter Pick will be from 10am to The Parish Council Newsletter, published The Parish Council is looking to take 12noon on Saturday 16 September from four times a year, is one of the two primary on a Glutton Street Sweeper machine the PC Noticeboards at the following means of keeping local residents informed to keep the pavements clear of debris locations, Bishopsmead Parade, Station of what’s happening in our village (the other throughout the year and thus reduce the Parade and Effingham Junction. being the website). After three years and incidence of flooded drains. Seeing the black bin liners piled up at the 13 editions, Steve Harvey, is stepping down Robert Taylor Would you be willing to volunteer to [email protected] end of the morning makes it all worthwhile. from the role of editor due to the increasing operate a pavement Sweeper on a rota So, come along to our next village litter pick demands of full time employment. If basis to keep our roads clear? Full training and help keep the village tidy! you’ve always fancied yourself as a writer, will be given. photographer and editor, now is your Become a Parish Councillor! If you are interested give Council Clerk chance. Please get in touch with Nick Nick Clemens a call on 01483 281148. Clemens at the Parish Office. Being a Parish Councillor is a worthwhile and rewarding position and takes only Steve Punshon a few hours a month and a vacancy [email protected] has arisen, better known as a “Casual Vacancy”. So if you would like to join the Parish Council and get involved in loads of interesting local stuff now is your chance! Call Nick Clemens for more information 01483 281148.

Andrew Franklin Prudential Cycle Ride 2017 [email protected] The next Prudential RideLondon takes place in central London on Saturday 29 July and in London and Surrey on Sunday 30 July 2017. Horsley Shufflers recently notched up their 300th Saturday morning run ?

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