Parish Council News

Next meeting. The next meeting taking place will be on Tuesday 10th March at 7:30pm. This will be the start of the Council meeting on a new day of the week. This date is more convenient to the Parish Councillors and avoids frequent clashes for both our MVDC and SCC Councillors.

Playground. The planned works at the Elizabeth Bailey Field playground have nearly been completed. The final plans were put together after consultation with local families and have been 18 months in the making. We hope that everyone enjoys it, especially once the weather has improved. The grass on the field has understandably taken a bit of a battering but this will be sorted. The cubs have also planted some new hedgerow between the field and Tanners Meadow. Please try not to cross there while they get established.

Brockham Clean Up.  The Parish Council are keen to make lots of remedial improvements to the village over the next year. Councillors have compiled a list of issues that need addressing across the village. This includes things such as faded road signage, overgrown hedges, ditch work and path improvements.

Traffic survey strips. You will have noticed that Surrey Highways have installed traffic survey strips along Middle Street. This will provide valuable insight into the way the village is used by road users. It will be useful to assess the impact of both the average speed cameras on the A25 and the Middle Street traffic calming scheme installed. The strips identify speed and types of vehicles across the time and days of the week, generally for a week or two.

Community Governance Review (CGR) Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) launched a Community Governance Review (CGR) in July 2025 to examine how local communities are represented and whether changes to parish governance are needed. A 12-week stage one consultation ran from July to October 2025, attracting 561 responses. These informed draft recommendations for stage two consultation which were presented to the full Council in an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday, 13 January 2026.

The draft proposals include exploring the possibility of creating seven new parish areas – Ashtead, Box Hill, Dorking, Fetcham, Leatherhead, Westcott, and Westhumble – and amending boundaries for the parishes of Brockham, Headley, and Holmwood. No changes were proposed for the other areas of Mole Valley. The draft recommendations are currently out to public consultation which closes on Friday 20th February 2026. All households within Mole Valley will receive postal communication on the draft recommendation for their town or village.