The ongoing problem with raw sewage being released into the brook running along the edge of the CVHT field and abutting Knowle Lane is now receiving long overdue attention. In yet another email to dated 4 May 2016 to the Environment…
UPDATE 11:27 5 May 2016: The Environment Agency have now confirmed Oliver Roden will be attending. We have been advised that the reason for the sewage tankers in the village is due to maintenance work being carried out at the Cranleigh…
Last evening the Knowle Park Initiative (West Cranleigh Nurseries) was rejected by the Joint Planning Committee at Waverley Borough Council. (Due to the very lengthy debate of 2 ½ hours, the Little Meadow application for 75 houses, which was also due…
Waverley Environmental Health, who we are very pleased to report have been extremely helpful, regarding the sewage spill on the Elmbridge Road, have confirmed that Thames Water have identified the cause of the recent sewage spill as a collapsed sewage…
On 2nd March members of the Cranleigh Society, Liz Townsend and Adrian Clarke met with Waverley Borough Council Planning Officers, Matthew Evans (Chief Planning Officer) and his colleague, Elizabeth Sims (taking over as Interim Head of Planning next week). We explained…
After months of research and pressure by the Cranleigh Society, the Environment Agency has admitted in writing to us that Cranleigh Waters, where Thames Water currently discharge Cranleigh’s sewage effluent, is exceeding legal safety limits and it is “technically infeasible”…
Thames Water have still not been able to locate the source of the raw sewage in the brook running along the boundary of the old site for the Cranleigh village hospital. It’s been just over two months since we posted…
Rather confusing article regarding the withdrawal of the planning application for 265 houses by the Knowle Park Initiative was reported in last week’s Surrey Advertiser. There is nothing ‘undemocratic’ in the way Waverley Borough Council’s Head of Planning, Matthew Evans…
UPDATE: FULL PERMISSION GRANTED 22 JUNE 2015 Cranleigh Brickworks situated in open countryside, has been subject to a number of failed planning applications since 2002. The current one is for 19 large dwellings following remediation of the site which is…
Cranleigh residents have been shocked to discover that raw sewage is flowing into a village brook from a number of properties in Cranleigh that are wrongly connected to surface water drains. The Cranleigh Society has commissioned water sampling to identify…
