WHAT'S IN HERE?
This section contains copies of key documents as well as general articles which should be of interest to casual browsers as well as WBDRA members & supporters.
JAN 2018
Last year's AGM minutes (unsigned version) and the text of Local Plan Policy A21 added.
JULY 2017
A brief update to get some recent items in the file
DECEMBER 2016
Most importantly are the Minutes of our last AGM in 2015.
We also have other items of relevance from 2016 to add but due to time constraints these will be added asap in 2017.
The most important document will be an exchange of e-mails between the WBDRA Chair, GBC and Cllr Bob McShee where GBC confirmed the main access gate to the Aldershot Road Site will be left as it is and NOT relocated as was being discussed by GBC Parks dept and Guildford Allotment Society
JANUARY 2016
We have included a representative collection of articles about Guildford housing numbers - will it be 400 or maybe 700? Is the Local Plan Data out of date data? Figures too about the Homeless/rough sleepers and will all the new homes be flats?
Other housing articles deal with building on floodplains, Slyfield Regeneration (SARP) and the possible loss of Bellfields Allotment Site.
The various activities of ex-Councillors Juneja & Mansbridge had much publicity - all very well covered by the Surrey Advertiser. Private Eye covered the story no less than 4 times in 2015 and we have included these too. The articles all appeared in the Eye's “Rotten Boroughs” section which for decades has highlighted the misdeeds & misadventures of Local Authorities & Councillors. Guildford was awarded the Eye’s “Services to Democracy” award – some heavy irony there! Also included is a letter from Cllr Bob McShee concerning Monika Juneja’s flawed petition.
Building on Flood Plains has become a major issue for the whole of UK late 2015 early 2016 yet plans are still around for building a major road (Clay Lane Link Road) on a floodplain and likewise homes! A small sample of articles included on this issue.
The Guildford Allotment Society Spring Newsletter features the WBDRA Chair at the Guildford Farmers Market in the company of fellow Allotment enthusiast Lori Winch-Johnson. Thanks to Harry Wickens for the photo but Lori is by far the more deserving centrefold!
Guildford in Bloom Winners article features 3 Allotment folk - Neil Gratwick, Mary Lawrence and St Josephs School (the school plot is on the Aldershot Road site).
Last but not least, a copy of a small article from the Surrey Advertiser 8th January 2016 – which covers, in brief, information obtained by Anne Milton MP about our Council’s plans for restoration of the Aldershot Road Allotment Site. Watch this space!!
Thanks to the Surrey Advertiser and Private Eye - our main sources of 2015 cuttings.
OCTOBER 2013
The GBC documents for the Issues & Options consultation are just too large to import on to this site.
What we have included below is the relevant page containing Question 36 about Allotments & during w/c 14th October the Appendix D pages showing the Allotment Site will appear also.
To access the full document set about the Consultation, you will need to access the GBC website.
This is the web address: www.guildfordlocalplan.info
MAY 2013 UPDATE
Today (28-05-13) the most important items to look at are the copy of the Surrey Times article "Allotment Celebrations" and the e-mail correspondence between WBDRA & GBC Planning "E-mail to-from GBC Planning post GAS AGM"
Also included in the May update are the articles listed below - very little of which makes encouraging reading for the average Guildford Householder/Council Tax payer - unless of course you're a property developer!
- Surrey County Council vows to protect Green Belt - Surrey Advertiser 29-March-2013
- Aldershot Road Allotments under threat - Guildford Allotment Society Newsletter Spring 2013
- Sale of Allotments in Leatherhead - Leatherhead Advertiser 04-April-2013
- Boxgrove Avenue residents land to be sold - Surrey Times 03-May-2013
- Inspectors getting more lenient - Surrey Advertiser 17-May-2013
- Developers Charter - Surrey Advertiser 17-May-2013
NOV 2012 UPDATE
Only a small crop of topical items this time - the Editors favourite being the Lamb "Garden Produce" cartoon from Private Eye - it just sums up our Growing Season perfectly!
The Telegraph "Allotment Police" article is a bit on the strange but true side but it would never happen in Guildford (so they say) and finally an article about Todmorden which has some resonance with Produce Growers generally
MAY 2012 UPDATE
We've updated the Library with copies of recent items of local interest.
This includes an truly fascinating & insightful letter by Alderman Gordon Bridger on the future of Guildford centre and a sharply observed letter from a Ripley resident about the admin performance of our local Borough Council.
CPRE published a very readable analysis of the new Planning Framework which is included here along with the Westborough Lib Dems "Focus" extract about the Aldershot Road Allotment site.
And we have included the Surrey Ad obituary for Tony Oliver late of the Wood St Royal Oak.
READING DOCUMENTS IN OUR LIBRARY
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