Councillor resigns from the Lib Dems

It seems that Cllr Lisa Bangs (who represents Lingfield and the Lib Dem's only Tandridge councillor south of the A25) has decided to resign from the Liberal Democratic party and therefore the Lib Dem group.

I believe that her decision was down to her unhappiness with the Coalition government.

Committee Meetings

We have now had the first committees of the new council year.

At Housing Committee we agreed to an action plan which will modernise and change the delivery of support services offered to older people in the district. The action plan has been drawn up following a review of the Council’s Sheltered Housing Service and has been driven by the need to create a service that better meets the changing needs of older residents. The review process included extensive consultation with both existing and potential service users of this council's housing. The new arrangements will hopefully better meet demand.

And at Resources Committee we signed off last years accounts (an underspend!) and bemoaned the pointlessness of a lot of the processes put in place by the previous government which cause us as a council to spend more than £20k per year on reporting that no-one will actually use.