SURREY County Council has cancelled plans to move its headquarters to Woking, due to the current restrictions involved with the coronavirus pandemic. The authority was due to leave County Hall in Kingston... Read more »
NEIGHBOURHOOD policing teams are supporting visits made by council staff to vulnerable people in Woking identified as being at greatest risk during the coronavirus crisis. Officers are helping establish the needs of... Read more »
SURREY County Council has set up a Community Helpline number 0300 200 1008 to provide assistance for vulnerable residents. The purpose of the hotline is to help direct residents who need support,... Read more »
SURREY firefighters will be refusing to work overtime from Christmas Eve, in protest at a reorganisation that will cut night-time cover across the county by seven fire engines Members of the Fire... Read more »
WOKING has at last succeeded in attracting the county council’s headquarters to the town, Guilford having lost out in its aspiration to be Surrey’s administrative centre. The two towns have been vying... Read more »
THE moving of Surrey County Council headquarters to Woking has been widely praised – but a warning has been issued that the decision has not been finalised. Last week the council announced... Read more »
FIREFIGHTERS are likely to vote on industrial action against a plan that includes one of Woking’s fire engines being unavailable for night-time emergency calls. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) is furious at... Read more »
SURREY’S firefighters say their brigade is “on its knees” through staff shortages which make several fire engines unavailable every day across the county. They are urging people to complain to their county... Read more »
RECYCLED waste plastic waste from bottles, bags and packaging has been used in pavements for the first time in Surrey. The trial has seen waste plastic that would otherwise have gone to... Read more »
SURREY County Council declared a climate change emergency last week, as Extinction Rebellion protesters staged a “die-in” outside County Hall. Climate change campaigners lay sprawled on the ground outside the council offices,... Read more »