Residents in the rounds at the northern end of Frenches Road have today received a letter (text transcribed below) outlining the timetable for the previously announced trial lowering of the bus gate (bollard) on Frenches Road, which was agreed by the Surrey County Council Local Committee last December. In summary, once traffic surveys of the [...]

The new easy way for residents to recycle more rubbish from their homes moved a step closer this week with the arrival of the first new refuse vehicles. The fleet of vehicles are manufactured by Dennis Eagle and NTM-GB and the Council’s collections crews have been fully trained to drive them. Around 80 per cent [...]

Horley Leisure Centre has won a prestigious Green Apple Award for its positive contribution to the built environment. The Green Apple Awards for Built Environment & Architectural Heritage recognise and reward projects that demonstrate environmental endeavour. Whether the project has won a Gold, Silver or Bronze award will be announced at an awards ceremony in [...]

As we are now part way into the local election campaign, we thought it would be useful to publish an article covering a few issues.  As councillors who are part of the majority group on both the County and Borough Councils, we have grown used to being the focus of negative campaigning at election time from [...]

The Council’s award winning Young Workers’ Scheme has been featured once again on the national stage, this time in Green Places, a monthly magazine dedicated to planning, designing and maintaining green spaces, which this month features an interview with three members of the scheme – you can view the article here:  Young Workers Article Past article [...]

Reigate & Banstead Borough Council has been awarded £100,000 by the government to help bring empty high street properties back into use. The borough is one of a hundred in the country to share the £10 million High Street Innovation Fund, which was unveiled by Housing and Local Government Minister Grant Shapps. The fund was [...]

The Council has won a prestigious Gatwick Diamond Business Award for its youth employment scheme, the third phase of which was launched this January. Reigate & Banstead scooped the Corporate Responsibility award for its Young Workers Scheme, which in less than a year has benefitted nearly 50 local 18-24 years olds by equipping them with [...]

Residents are reminded to check for changes to their recycling, refuse and garden waste collection services over the upcoming Bank Holidays. Easter Bank Holiday Collections will not be changing over the Easter period. We will be working on Good Friday and Easter Monday to keep your collections on their usual days to minimise disruption to [...]

The Council is committed to preventing, detecting and investigating instances of fraud, and ensuring that appropriate action is taken against those committing fraud. Our Corporate Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption Team (CAFACT) is made up of qualified and accredited investigators whose remit includes uncovering and investigating fraud against the Council, including: housing and council tax benefit fraud [...]

Earlswood Councillors have welcomed the significant extension of local recycling which was announced last Thursday at the Council’s Executive meeting. The new service is due to start this summer, and up until now all that was known was that the kerbside collection would be extended from the current paper, card and cans, to cover plastic [...]