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Your Independent Councillors working for you

Your Independent Councillors working for you (Sept 1, 2026) Your Ashtead Independent Councillors all continue to work hard on behalf of the residents of Ashtead. County Councillor Chris Townsend and District Councillors Mary Cooper, Chris Hunt, Gerry Sevenoaks, Garry Stansfield, Andy Smith and Patricia Wiltshire are all busy representing the interests of our local community in the final months of the County and District Councils. Both Surrey CC and Mole Valley DC will be ‘sto

Sep 1

Ashtead Independents - Election Results

THANK YOU, ASHTEAD! Our thanks go to the people of Ashtead for putting your faith in Ashtead Independents once again by voting to elect Chris Hunt and Andy Smith to be Ashtead's representatives on the new East Surrey Council. Cllrs Hunt and Smith won the two Ashtead seats on the new unitary council by a substantial margin. Congratulations, Chris and Andy!

May 13

New ‘East Surrey Council’ to replace Mole Valley and Surrey County Council

With effect from April 2027, both Surrey County Council and Mole Valley District Council will cease to exist. For our area there will be a new ‘Unitary’ Council – East Surrey– covering all of Mole Valley plus neighbouring Elmbridge and Epsom & Ewell, as well as Reigate & Banstead and Tandridge. On 7 May this year there will be elections to this new East Surrey council. The new council will begin to take over responsibilities from both SCC and MVDC, with East Surrey assuming

Mar 27

British Landscapes and biodiversity – in a nutshell – some thoughts | Patricia Wiltshire

The word ‘ecosystem’ has crept into many areas of endeavour and is usually used very inappropriately. An ecosystem consists of the biological community (all plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and other microbes) living and interacting in a physical place which is termed the habitat. The habitat is the physical and chemical surroundings in which the community lives and operates. Thus, Community + Habitat = Ecosystem Virtually every major ecosystem of which you are aware in Br

Oct 21, 2025