March 1, 2019 by Web master

2700 vehicles a day using Salt Lane – sign the Petition

New traffic data has shown that 2700 vehicles a day use the East-West route of Salt Lane and Markwick Lane. At peak time that is 337 vehicles an hour. Commercial vehicles make up an average of 28% of those vehicles. At peak times 45% of all vehicles are vans, lorries or HGVs. That is 28% higher than a year ago. This 7 mile rural route is unsuitable for such a volume of traffic and is increasingly dangerous for road users. The environmental impact is not to be underestimated either.

Sign the petition!

A petition has been created to get Surrey County Council to take this issue seriously and consider measures to combat the environmental and safety factors. If more than 30 signatories can be noted within the next week (by 8th March) then the Councillors will consider this issue at the next Surrey County Council’s Local Committee meeting on 22nd March.

Please do sign up here:

https://petitions.surreycc.gov.uk/Ratruns/

You can also find out more information, photographs and the traffic data for Salt Lane /Markwick Lane here.

November 1, 2018 by Web master

Council Amenity Tip may close – have your say

Surrey CC are considering closing Cranleigh and Farnham refuse / recycling tips. If they do then Cranleigh’s residents will be driving to Witley to use the amenity tip there. Surrey CC are keen to hear your views on this so do post feedback here:

https://www.surreysays.co.uk/environment-and-infrastructure/crcs/

Lorry on unsuitable road report

If you should see a lorry or HGV using a road unsuitable for such vehicles then please report it to Surrey County Council Highways department. They purport to support the LORD initiative (Lorries off Rural Detours).

Surrey County Council say they have a transport strategy for HGVs, however their LORD webpage on which you can report an HGV on unsuitable roads has been removed (after a Hambledon parishioner complained that reports were not acted upon). However you can still report an incident by emailing this report to [email protected]. Lorry-Incident-Report-Form v2

Do insist on a reply.