2020 www.westewellandruxley.org.uk. PRESIDENT: Gordon Cooper WERRA COMMITTEE Chairman Jean Steer MBE 3 Green Lanes, KT19 9TW 0208 393 6851 [email protected] Vice Chairman Gary Kirchmair 42 Green Lanes, KT19 9UJ 0770 949 2107 [email protected] Secretary Gill Smitheram 63 Heatherside Road, KT19 9QS 020 8224 9226 [email protected] Treasurer Clive Smitheram 63 Heatherside Road, KT19 9QS 020 8224 9226 [email protected] Editor Sheila Martin MBE 31 Chesterfield Road, KT19 9QR 0784 368 7128 [email protected] SURREY COUNTY COUNCILLOR Jan Mason 020 8397 7609 Jan is your elected Surrey County Councillor [email protected] for Ruxley, West Ewell and part of Court Wards. Through her, you can communicate concerns you have about matters falling within the responsibility of the County. Eg roads, road maintenance, transport and lighting WARD COUNCILLORS WEST EWELL Monica Coleman Town Hall, The Parade, KT18 5BY 07538 819743 [email protected] Barry Nash 19 Cullerne Close, KT17 1XY 0783 655 5888 [email protected] Clive Smitheram 63 Heatherside Road KT19 9QS 020 8224 9226 [email protected] RUXLEY Alex Coley 362 Chessington Road, KT19 9EG 07421 450311 [email protected] Jan Mason 62 Amis Avenue, KT19 9HU 020 8397 7609 [email protected] Alan Sursham 1 Orchard Close, KT19 9NS 020 8397 8654 [email protected] 2 CHAIRMAN’S NOTE Jean Steer MBE Welcome to the Spring News letter; here’s hoping we will soon get some better weather after what seems to be a long wet Winter. WERRA endeavours to keep residents informed on issues in the two wards and across the Borough via our elected coun- cillors and through this newsletter, our website and on Face- book. The committee is still seeking to recruit new mem- bers and to that end we are very pleased to welcome Michelle May onto our Committee. Michelle is very commit- ted to environment issues and is making a valuable contribution to our environ- ment team. We also welcome Dennis Ward, a resident of Ruxley ward, who visits our committee meetings and has offered to volunteer as a road steward. This seems a good time to welcome any new residents who have moved into the two wards of West Ewell and Ruxley. We would be pleased to welcome them to one of our monthly committee meetings. Please contact me if you are interested. (see contact details inside front cover). I was very pleased to see the Edge youth club has opened again. County Council- lor Jan Mason has worked very hard at Surrey County Council, campaigning to get this facility re-opened for our young people supported by Surrey Clubs for Young People. The opening was on the evening of Friday the 28th February and was attended by Councillors, youth workers and volunteers who will be encour- aging youngsters to join in and take part in many sporting and social activi- ties. I hope it will become a hub of activity. (See article in this newsletter). SECRETARY’S REPORT Gill Smitheram The WERRA Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 1 April will precede our regular committee meeting, and last for about 15 minutes. It will include the elec- tion of OfDicers, for one year, and of Committee Members for three years. The annual accounts will be presented for approval. Our meeting on Wednesday 3 June in the Webber Hall is open to all, and will feature presentations of environ- mental issues locally, including recycling, keeping the wards clean and tidy and the wetlands development. The meeting will start at 6.30pm and include light refreshments. Something for all! The next newsletter will be available in July 2020 In the meantime please keep up to date on our website and Facebook pages. 3 Alan Sursham MOTOR VEHICLE TECHNICIAN Registered Office: 1 Orchard Close, West Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 9NS Your local MOT TESTER AND SERVICE REPAIRER Interim Service - £95 Full Service - £155 (Parts and Labour included) (Cars up to 2000 cc) QUOTES FOR CARS OVER 2000 cc - PLEASE PHONE ALL CARS COLLECTED AND DELIVERED (LOCAL AREAS) Diagnostics Brakes Clutches Bodywork Welding etc Labour Rate £57.50 per hour ! Telephone: Office - 020 8397 8654, Garage - 07784 716567 (For instant attention) 4 WERRA COMMITTEE MEETINGS Wednesday 1 April AGM and Committee meeting Webber Hall, Church Road, West Ewell. Wednesday 6 May 7.30 to 9pm - Committee meeting Epsom & Ewell High School, Ruxley Lane. Wednesday 3 June 6.30pm - Open Meeting Webber Hall. Wednesday 1 July, 7.30 to 9pm - Committee meeting Epsom and Ewell High School. Please advise the Chair or Secretary if you wish to attend. COMMUNITY EVENTS IN THE WEBBER HALL WEDNESDAYS - 2.30 to 4.30pm Getting Crafty 18 March, 15 April, 20 May, 17 June, 15 July Cake and Company 25 March, 29 April, 27 May, 24 June, 29 July. ************ TUESDAY MORNINGS from 9am to 12.30pm Honeycomb Café during term time 5 10% Reduction on production of this advert for any new customers 6 SURREY NEWS - Councillor Jan Mason The Edge Youth Centre Good news! On 28 February this Youth Centre was relaunched. At the relaunch I was joined by Cllrs Nash and Sursham, WERRA Chair- man Jean Steer and committee member John Moffatt. We met Joyce Quinelle and her Team from Surrey Clubs for Young People all of whom are volunteers They have a Chairman and Treasurer but need someone with a talent for Marketing and Publicity so if this is your forte please get in touch This is an exciting time for the centre, and something I’ve been working towards for several years. The majority of the estate consists of flats with no gardens so it is important that they have somewhere like this youth club, where they can socialise and use the sports hall facilities and outside football court. My thanks to everyone who has helped to get this centre reopened and we wish it every success. With the Youth Club reopened and the Skate Park at end of Cox Lane and the ex- tended playground at Gatley Green the young residents now have local facilities to enjoy. Epsom Town Centre • Improvements are nearing completion. • In addition to the Farmers Market on the First Sunday of the month, there is now a Vegan market on the second Sunday. Cox Lane Green I am pleased to report that two new trees have been planted, plus daffodils. The dead tree will be removed by May. Scotts Farm Road As part of the EEHS development on the top field, the developers have agreed to install six parking spaces on the green area. Hopefully this will help alleviate the parking in this road. THE FUTURE OF EPSOM HOSPITAL - RESIDENTS’ MEETINGS Around 60 borough residents attended the meeting held on Wednesday 26 February at Bourne Hall, in relation to proposed changes to the provi- sion of healthcare at Epsom Hospital. Following the changes highlighted in a proposal by the NHS Clinical Com- missioning Groups for the co-location of several critical and emergency care ser- vices to be delivered from a new facility at one site, at either Epsom, St Helier or Sutton, the meeting was for Epsom and Ewell residents to hear about hospital provision in our borough. 7 Panel members at the meeting included repre- sentatives from Epsom and St Helier Univer- sity Hospitals NHS Trust, the Improving Healthcare Together Programme and the Clinical Commissioning Groups. Residents had the opportunity to listen to a presentation by Epsom and St Helier Univer- sity Hospitals NHS Trust, on how the propos- al may affect services specific to borough residents and to ensure that they had the opportunity to put their questions, views and concerns forward. The meeting also provided an up-date on the current works being undertaken at Epsom Hospital to improve patient care. To view the film that was shown at the meeting please see: https://improv- inghealthcaretogether.org.uk/consultation/watch-the-videos/ This meeting was not part of the public consultation being undertaken by the Im- proving Healthcare Together programme. For info on the public consultation, please see: https://improvinghealthcaretogether.org.uk/consultation/ WERRA COMMUNITY PROJECT - Carol Jay You may have noticed the poor state of many of the Vir- gin Media telecommunications cabinets in our area. These are the metal boxes sited at the kerb or property boundaries. Virgin recently repainted them in battleship grey, but many of them are peeling and looking shabby. The other telecommunication companies keep their equipment cabinets in good order. We have therefore been pressing Virgin to do something about this eye- sore.WERRA is always looking for ways to improve our local area. To this end we are embarking on a community project with Virgin Me- dia and the University of Creative Arts (UCA) in Epsom. If agreed, selected Vir- gin Cabinets will have artwork painted on them by UCA students. The students will put designs forward as part of their coursework. Themes will have to be rele- vant to the history and heritage of the Borough and will of course have to be agreed with all partners. Planning for this is progressing and we hope to have the artwork started during the summer of 2020. Several cabinets have been selected for a trial and if successful it may be rolled out further in the Borough. We would welcome your comments on this proposal and would like to hear from you, if you are able to spare a few hours helping with preparations, etc.. I will keep you updated on this project and hope to include some proposed student designs in the next issue of this newsletter.