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BBC News
6 days ago
- Climate
- BBC News
Surrey residents engage in climate change delivery plan
Residents in Surrey are being invited to help shape the county's next five-year climate change delivery plan will set out priority areas to tackle climate change and initiatives that "will benefit residents' everyday lives", a Surrey County Council spokesperson include increasing the thermal efficiency of homes, reducing energy bills through grants and bulk purchasing schemes and building resilience to threats to personal property and the local Heath, cabinet member for environment, said: "We know many residents are already seeing the impacts of climate change through flooding and disruption to road and rail services." She said it was "really important the council listens to what is most important to residents and design a plan that will help us tackle climate change in Surrey now, and for future generations to come".A workshop is set to take place at Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking on 26 July. The engagement phase of the climate change delivery plan is being co-designed with residents, businesses, schools and community groups. The county council has already conducted in-person workshops across the county with schools, parishes and residents. It said it had also undertaken polling and online engagement to "ensure a wide range of views and demographics are heard".
BBC News
14-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Conservation site approved for former quarry in Surrey
A former quarry in Surrey is to be converted into a nature conservation site, a council has said. Plans for Clockhouse Quarry in Capel, near Dorking, could take at least 14 years to from Surrey Council Council have granted planning permission to utility company firm will now begin importing around 740,000 cubic metres of inert material, such as soil, from nearby construction projects to create the site. It will bring an end to the industrialisation of the land that has stretched back to 1947, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service. Gerry Cavanagh, regional manager at Suez, said: "We look forward to delivering all the excellent enhancements for local wildlife and keeping the community updated on our activity as we look to the months ahead."The company said it wanted to "reduce the size and depth" of man-made reservoirs to "minimise both health and safety risks associated with unauthorised access, as well as bird strikes for aeroplanes approaching or taking off from Gatwick Airport".It said the plans should help native great-crested newts and other flora and first decade of the project will see large swathes of the site refilled before a potential two-year pause to allow habitats to establish. This would be followed by another two years of work, ensuring water can drain freely from the restored is expected to start in 2026.
BBC News
13-07-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Surrey Grade II listed building repairs nearly complete
Restoration work of a historic Surrey building is close to finishing, a council has said. Pippbrook House in Dorking recently received £200,000 to repair its roof after its owners said they were "morally obligated" to maintain the 19th-century site. Chair of Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) councillor Roger Adams and other guests attended a tile signing ceremony to mark the milestone on 9 July. It comes after MVDC decided to increase the repair budget from £1.4m to £1.6m in June so parts of the building damaged by a leak in October 2023 could be fixed. Pippbrook House is Grade II* listed, a "distinction" English Heritage only bestows on about 5% of all listed properties, according to MVDC. 'Significant challenges' ahead "We are delighted this complex roof-level stage is near completion, both within budget and on schedule," said Councillor Nick Wright, cabinet member for leisure and community assets. He added that the next stage of the project aims to return the building - a "valued local asset" to active use. MVDC needed to find "creative ways" of funding more needed work, but this could not be done when "you've got holes in your roof", Mr Wright added."There are significant challenges... but these works are necessary," he said. In February 2023, the council originally approved a budget of £3.1m for works required to fix Pippbrook House – with £1.6m coming from Mole Valley and the rest obtained through local authority was unable to bring in any external cash, limiting what could be achieved, according to the Local Democracy Reporting new work will also open up two rooms that cannot be used due to ceiling damage, the meeting heard, it added.
BBC News
05-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Car crushing and Spitfire displays at Capel Military Show
Helicopters, tanks and military vehicles are on display at the Capel Military Show in Dorking this Surrey event, which started on Friday and continues on Saturday and Sunday, is also showcasing battle re-enactments, car crushing and naval gun firing. The first Capel Military Show was in 2013. Chairman and founder of the event John Dale told BBC Radio Surrey that his passion was to make sure future generations do not forget what a "dreadful thing" war is. "We should not be at war with each other," he continued. "The events of World War Two - not just the battles, but also... [the] build up to war – is something everybody, particularly politicians nowadays, ought to look at... and make sure these things never happen again." A Hurricane and Spitfire from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight will be displaying on Saturday and two Spitfires will display on Sunday. Food outlets, trade stands, a bar and a kids' zone are also available.
BBC News
30-06-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
MP says he is being denied communion over assisted dying vote
An MP says he is being denied communion by his local catholic priest after he voted in favour of the assisted dying Coghlan, the Liberal Democrat MP for Dorking and Horley in Surrey, backed the Terminally Ill Adults Bill, which was approved in the House of Commons with a majority of 23 MPs earlier this Coghlan said Father Ian Vane, the priest at St Joseph's Catholic Church in Dorking, wrote to him before the vote, and then last week told people attending mass that he would be refusing him Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton said Bishop Richard Moth had spoken to the MP and offered to meet him to "discuss the issues and concerns raised". Mr Coghlan told BBC Radio Surrey that he and his family were not in the church in person to hear the priest, but that people who were there had contacted him to say they were "pretty appalled"."It is one thing to take a view on an MPs vote on a conscience vote in Parliament, it is quite another to go out and publicly name and shame them, as a Catholic priest, to hundreds of their constituents," he Coghlan added that he had thought "carefully" about the vote, and that he felt "utterly disillusioned" by what had happened. In a statement, the local diocese said the issue "was a complex one for all involved", and that it recognised "the difficult task faced by MPs in seeking to represent their constituents".It said Bishop Moth had urged clergy to write to MPs "in a private capacity" to express their concerns about the bill, and to ask them to vote against added: "The Catholic Church believes in the sanctity of life and the dignity of every person."The legislation, which also needs to pass through the House of Lords, would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales with six months or less to live to get medical assistance to end their own lives.
