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The Council will no longer be considering one of the locations put forward for a garden village development. Recent evidence on the location at Chaldon, which encompassed land at Alderstead and Tollsworth Farm, has now demonstrated this area has a number of issues which cannot be overcome and it will not be included in the Local Plan: Garden Villages Consultation which starts shortly.

Do you want to know what happens when you are evacuated from your home?

Do you want to help improve how evacuation centres are run by volunteering to be a member of staff?

We are running an Emergency Evacuation Centre Exercise and need volunteers to play various roles.

From 7 August to 6 October Network Rail will be demolishing and re-building the Boswell Footbridge next to Stafford Road Open Space in Caterham. The work will be carried out by contractors Dyer and Butler, which have applied to Surrey County Council to carry out the works while the ground is dry enough to enable a large crane on the site to lift the concrete footbridge.

There is a new scam being used by thieves in the area to trick people into giving up their bank details. Thieves call residents offering to do some maintenance work on their property, quoting a low figure and asking for bank details. After handing these over they will then withdraw a larger sum, £2000 in one case, from the bank account.

Residents can have their say about proposed changes to Surrey’s community recycling centres (CRCs), which will save up to £2 million a year, while maintaining a quality service.