This Thursday, 2nd of March is the AGM of the Cranleigh Civic Society at the Band Room on Village Way at 7:30pm and never before have we been so much in need of your help. We have fought the good fight examining every detail of the huge number of houses planned and approved to be built in our village, only to be ignored and criticised by the borough council and other parties who stand to make huge financial gains.
In fact, they’ve openly said that nothing you or I say or do has any effect on the decisions they make about the quality, well-being and safety of existing resident’s lives. It seems we’re unimportant, compared to their desire to dump all the housing here despite the lack of infrastructure, thereby protecting Haslemere, Godalming and in the main Farnham.
Cranleigh only has 5 borough councillors, of which 2 have declared a pecuniary interest in development in Cranleigh, compared to the stronghold of 18 borough councillors for Farnham.
The dump on Cranleigh has only just begun, with this imbalance of power this will never stop.
Please join us now to take a stand against the outrageous abuse of this power and help us to keep up the fight for fair representation on the borough council and for fair recognition of the constraints of our rural roads, sewage treatment, public transport and the undermining of the character of our village.
This will not stop! Areas of farmland and woods have already been decimated but we must still fight on. We have irrefutable evidence of the extent of Cranleigh’s ageing asbestos cement drinking water pipes and no clear evidence that this is not a risk to our health, despite asking the Drinking Water Inspectorate several times to confirm this they have not done so. We have set up an online petition to ask our MP Anne Milton to help us find out what these asbestos pipes are doing to us and to our children.
We think we have a right to know, do you?
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/remove-asbestos-cement-drinking-water-pipes
We can also prove that the sewerage treatment works intends to pump out more and more pollution into our river, even though it is already polluted, and the Environment Agency is most likely going to roll over and play dead, and let them do this, whilst wildlife suffers and our environment suffers too. We need to continue to push Waverley on this point, even if ultimately it may lead to the law courts.
We’ll bring you right up to date on Thursday with the battles we are fighting and let you know how you can help us. And, never forget:
“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.”
Margaret Mead Anthropologist
