July/Aug 2017 – Issue 158 In this edition Another Fairoaks row Local pub refurbished From the Lakeside Sythwood head retires CENTRE SOLD FOR £16.6m The shopping centre has new owners. Details in Views from the Chair on Page 3 TRADING IN SURREY FOR OVER 40 YEARS rsmdomesticappliances.com Your Local ONLINE Bosch PRICES Superstore YOUR LOCAL RSM STORE: The first stop for Bosch quality High Street appliances at online prices. Knaphill, Woking SALES • ADVICE • REPAIRS Call Fast, free local delivery. 01483 475000 Visit our showroom today! Also in Bookham and Ashtead SPECIALISTS IN CLEVER DESIGN CALL 0500 691771 FOR A FREE DESIGN CONSULTATION Frimley Woking Guildford www.notjustkitchenideas.com 2 GOLDSWORTH Views from the Chair NEWS IN the last issue of Goldsworth News, I reported that the Goldsworth Park Shopping Centre was up for sale – for Goldsworth News is the magazine of the a guide price of £17.4m. The sale went through in mid- Goldsworth Park Community Association, June and the site was purchased for £16.6m by Christian published bi-monthly and distributed free Vision, a Charitable Trust established by Lord Edmiston of charge to approximately 5,000 dwellings and organisations throughout Goldsworth in 1993. Park and the surrounding area. Lord Edmiston is the founder and owner of IM Group and EDITORIAL TEAM: IM Properties which manages investment funds and property on behalf of Christian George Binyon, Michael Farlam, Vision. He is also a well-known philanthropist. Malcom Head and Royer Slater [email protected] I am pleased to report that JLL Ltd are continuing as managing agents for the site. Published by the I have talked with my contact at JLL since the sale and he told me that he has already Goldsworth Park Community Association spoken to the new owners about the number of disabled parking bays; he is currently Designed and printed by Knaphill Print investigating options for increasing the number of disabled parking bays and I hope that I can bring you more news on this topic soon. ADVERTISE IN GOLDSWORTH NEWS Contact Paul Webster: 07778 836405, On a different topic, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to [email protected] Roy Anders and his wife Win who, after many years cleaning our Community Hall, have DISTRIBUTION finally decided to retire. Those of you who know Roy will know that he is an avid Carp Linda Hill, 5 Newsham Road, fisherman; I am sure Win agrees with the saying: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for Goldsworth Park GU21 3LA. Tel: 01483 835183 a day – teach a man to fish and you’ll be rid of him for the whole weekend!” We all Email: [email protected] wish them both a long and happy retirement. Copy for the next issue in If you have any issues of general concern or would like to be involved in the work of September/October must be submitted the GPCA, please contact me through this magazine or at [email protected]. by Monday, 4th September 2017. By post: 37 Willowmead Close, Goldsworth Park GU21 3DN. Irene Watson, GPCA Chairman Email: [email protected] GPCA MEETINGS @ourgpca facebook.com/goldsworth.park Meetings of the Community Association are held at 7.30pm at Goldwater Lodge. 2017 meetings: January 31; April 25; July 25; AGM November 7. Don’t risk a dip in the lake All residents are welcome. If you would like to be put on the mailing list for HOT summer weather makes our lake an attractive venue for recreation and most minutes and other information, residents and visitors use the wonderful amenity responsibly, keeping a watchful eye email [email protected] or call 01483 714096. over toddlers and keeping dogs under control on leads. COUNCILLORS’ SURGERIES The minority who do indulge in anti-social behaviour include a group of young people The Goldsworth Park Councillors hold a who choose to ignore the No Swimming signs and use the lake as a substitute for the Pool surgery between 10 and 11am on the first in the Park or Guildford Lido. Saturday of every month (except August) at Strollers, accessed from the path between Swimming in lakes and rivers is inherently dangerous and those who take the plunge the shops and the lake. put themselves and others, who might feel obliged to help in an emergency, at risk. Ann-Marie Barker (Lib Dem) Ian Eastwood (Lib Dem) Drowning is now a bigger cause of death in Surrey than accidental house fires. Since Chitra Rana (Con) 2010, 34 people have drowned in Surrey’s rivers and lakes, and Surrey Fire and Rescue DISCLAIMER Service has been called to more than 250 incidents. Many of these accidents are a result of No responsibility for the quality of goods or underestimating the effect that swimming in cold open water can have. services advertised in this magazine can be accepted by the publishers, designers or printers. Many of the dangers listed by Fire and Rescue apply to Goldsworth Park Lake. They are Advertisements are included in good faith. deep unknown water, no lifeguards present, slippery and steep banks, rubbish under the No part of this magazine may be water and dirty water. The lake is filled by rainfall runoff from local roads and the banks reproduced in any form without the express are home to a troublesome rat population. prior permission of the publishers. The publishers do not necessarily agree Enjoy the lake but stay safe by staying out of the water. with the views expressed by contributors nor A water safety leaflet is available at this web address: https://www.surreycc.gov. do they accept any responsibility for errors of interpretation in the subject matter of uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/134005/CS2329-water-safety_WEB.pdf this magazine. EDITOR All reasonable care is taken to ensure accuracy in preparation of the magazine but neither the publisher nor printer can be held Help us spread the News legally responsible for the return of unsolicited THE delivery of the Goldsworth News to every household on the Park is dependent on manuscripts, art work or projects. Whilst every care is taken, no responsibility can be volunteers. We have most roads covered but there are a few gaps. If you would like to accepted for the safety of material submitted. help in any of the roads listed here please contact Linda Hill at [email protected] Abingdon Close 21 houses; Badgers Close 39; Colyton Close 12; Stainton Walk 10; Please read and recycle Waterside Way 35; Winnington Way 14; Glendale Close 31; Helmsdale 30; Langmans Way 26; Milcombe 10. 3 4 Woking Parking Review Last year,Martin Surrey County Slocock Council undertook 1935-2017a review of requests for new, or amendments to existing, parking WHY ARE YOU HERE FREE restrictions. Recommendations for new restrictions and JUST A £5 MARTIN SLOCOCK, patron of the Natural Goldsworth Park a nationallyNOW? renowned botanical expert. REGISTRATION Projectchanges and to distinguished existing arrangements local horticulturist, were presented passed awayto the He ultimately helped draw the attention FEE! atjoint Mount Woking Alvernia, Committee Guildford, on on22 June October 3 aged 2014. 82. The joint and support of Natural England to the Do you ever ask what life is really about WokingAnd at CommitteeSt John the Baptist approved Church, all Bisley, of theon July recommendations 7, family, friends residents’ cause. The Natural Goldsworth andand former these colleagues are now gathered being for formally a service toadvertised celebrate hisfor life. public Park projector how was devised to make to demonstrate the most of it? to Woking Council the residents’ sense of comment.The land onThey which can the be Goldsworth seen at www.surreycc.gov.uk/roads- Park estate is built is the former and-transport/parking/parking-news-and-updates/parking- ownershipAsking for the questions space and is to the offer basis a of Practical Slocock’s Nursery which was sold to developers Trafalgar House in the credible alternative to the council’s own mid-seventies.news-and-updates-in-woking proposalsPhilosophy; for the land. weekly evening courses designed to help you explore and discuss great ForDespite Goldsworth ill health Park, Mr Slocock there aremaintained three recommendationsa keen interest in the for “Martin fully supported and endorsed the vision that was called Goldsworthdouble yellow Park linesCommunity at junctions Association’s to prevent campaign vehicles to save parking the Naturalphilosophical Goldsworth Park. concepts. I sense that Martin was immensely gratified North Meadow area from development. dangerously and obstructing sight lines. The junctions are: and impressedStarting that with the the local 10 community week introductory felt committed course to save a • GPCA TresillianChair Irene Way Watson junction and withNGP SythwoodProject Manager Gerry piece ofand his formerdeveloping family fromlandholding there, forour the courses purpose are it had been Smeesters attended the Bisley service. originally created, and left relatively unscathed for some 40 years. • Willowmead Close junction with Sythwood run not as an academic discipline, but as a Gerry said afterwards: “In October 2016 the outcome of the “Hisuseful last comment, way of in applying April 2017, philosophical upon hearing of insights the successful residents’• Marstonand users’ Road campaign junction to savewith NorthHallington Meadow Close was still outcome of the campaign was to remind the community to persevere. to our everyday lives. veryObjections, much uncertain. comments Martin andaccepted letters the roleof supportof Patron mustbecause be Martin said: ‘The challenge is now for the Goldsworth Park community he recognised the importance of natural green space to the local to grasp this opportunity and show, during the next 10 years, that it submitted by 23rd January 2015 either on the web page Free* Courses Starting January: Practical community within the urban environment.