30th May, 2025

This site presents an independent view to maintain the current status of Shere Parish Council, with Peaslake as part of it, forever.
The website is independent of SPC, and does not represent SPC, or any councillor, in any way.

Reminder: Please remember to write to GBC, before the closing date, but not yet: ( see the text just below). It is however, vital that this change does not go through. 'No change' is the only real option! There is a sample letter, which can be downloaded and signed as it is, or to be used as a model, but its better of you do your own!

NEWS: SPC met on the 28th May, 2025, to discuss their policy going forward: You will be receiving, hopefully within a week, a letter, and statement stating the view of the full parish council. Please do not write in to GBC, yet, until you have had this document, and understood the broader context here. See the general report on the meeting, to be linked from the sidebar, and the formal minutes will be on SPC website and a link placed in this site too, when availalble.

Stop the Proposal for a new Parish Council for Peaslake only.

Note: Reason for this site to exist: A request was made to the Peaslake community 'council' to ask if they could publish a 'balance' document stating the case to stay with the current arrangement i.e. to keep Shere Parish Council as it has been for 131 years, so as to provide a balance to their published case for leaving SPC: but they have declined permission to do so. So it leaves little choice but to publish the 'remain' case, here. The lack of 'democracy' is sign of what could happen, should this small group get voted in. New Details and comments to be added, here, daily.

Background:

The 'governance /boundary review' as it is called, is to allow Guildford Borough Council to consider, after a public consultation, the idea to split the parish council, leaving Shere with 2 wards, and to separate Peaslake ward allowing the formation of a new Parish Council to serve Peaslake only, separate from Shere Parish Council. Please note this was brought about by lodging a petition with GBC, driven by a small minority of Peaslake residents, and 2 local parish councillors. Most residents did not want this. This consultation is now under way, with a closing date for public comments on the 7th July, 2025. So if you do not want this to happen, act soon, please! Please wait for the letter from Shere Parish council, however, which should be with you during the 1st week of June. Many reasons to oppose the idea and details on how to register your view are listed in the sidebar, on the left.

All residents of Shere Parish should have received a consultation letter, inviting comments from the public. This is for ALL residents of Shere Parish, not just residents of Peaslake.

While there may be some reasons for this proposal, there are many more reasons too why it might not be a good idea: The idea of this site is to provide details and points to counter the pressure being brought about to do this, driven by 2 local ward councillors and a minority Peaslake 'community council', despite the latter not being a representative organization within the village. Not all of the current serving Parish ward councillors support this, and the majority of residents of Peaslake have not publicly expressed any views, as yet, which is the purpose of the current consultation letter sent out by GBC.

The site offers points in favour of the 'status quo'.

The navigation sidebar allows links to various pages, where these details on how to register your view, what its all about, what is entailed. Your comments if you want them known, can be published there too, using the e mail link below.

Please indicate if you want your name published, and give permission to do so. Please note that this site not a public forum, much the same as the 'community council' site is not: the editor reserves the right to moderate or exclude any comments deemed offensive, or not relevant.

Peaslake: A Village in the Surrey Hills

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