Surrey Heath candidate fights to save local Royal British Legion Club

Matt Willey, Labour’s prospective candidate for Surrey Heath, has vowed to work to prevent The Legion Club in Victoria Avenue Camberley from being sold for development.

“Labour recently wrote to The Charity Commission questioning why the Legion Club’s organisation has been given a green light to sell the land on which the 70 year old club stands for demolition and development. It was pointed out to them that the objectives of The Legion place a priority on providing services for the community in which they exist. We failed to see how boarding it up and selling it to a developer meets this objective.

“It is with great disappointment that we received the Charity Commission’s reply saying The Legion Club organisation had the right to dispose of it for development in this way,” he continued.

Labour seeks Surrey transport chief’s head after Christmas chaos

Councillor Victor Agarwal Labour’s Stanwell Councillor is hoping that he will be joined by Liberal Democrat and Independent Councillors in calling for Ian Lake to consider his position as Surrey County Council spokesman on transport. Questions about Surrey County Council’s performance are to be raised at its next meeting in Kingston upon Thames.

This follows the Council’s shambolic response to the bad weather before Christmas.

“Ian Lake issued a statement assuring people in Surrey that the County Council was prepared for the bad weather being predicted by the Met Office,” Councillor Agarwal states. “Hundreds of miles of road were to be gritted and salted and supplies of salt and grit made available everywhere to households according to a media statement he released.”

“The reality of the County’s performance was startlingly different. Because of a concentration of what were designated as priority roads other busy roads that became like skating rinks and highly dangerous were ignored.