Refurbishments on Lingfield Fire station will now start before the end of the summer.
The work had been due to start earlier this year, along with overhauls for Chobham and Reigate’s buildings.
As well as the second vehicle bay, Lingfield will also get better facilities to handle contaminants, a new gym and a space to allow more community work.
Lingfield’s crew and vehicles will be temporarily relocated to Oxted, which is being funded by Surrey County Council.
A man from Crawley has been found guilty the murder of a 32-year-old, Holly Sanchez.
31-year-old, Ryan Evans murdered Ms Sanchez last May while he was on bail.
Ms Sanchez’s family payed tribute to her and hoped that her case raises awareness of how quickly domestic violence can have fatal consequences.
A project has been set up to help residents recognise and report anti social behaviour in Redhill.
Safer Redhill brings together the Council, Surrey Police and YMCA East Surrey with local residents and businesses.
It has been putting in place new safety measures alongside community activities. This includes targeted youth outreach work by YMCA East Surrey with the touring ‘Y bus’, and ASB training for council officers and Street Pastors.
The Council and Surrey Police have secured Safer Streets funding for Redhill which will pay for activity until March next year.
Photo above courtesy Queen Victoria Hospital. The CT Scanner is now officially open.
The Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead has officially opened a new CT Scanner. The Hospital has invested £750,000 to improve access to diagnostics.
The new scanner will increase the hospital’s capacity by around 20%. It will help QVH not only reduce its own waiting list but will support other providers across Sussex, Surrey and Kent to reduce their waiting lists for CT scans. CT or computed tomography is a medical imaging technique used to gain detailed internal images of the body.
Members of the hospital’s League of Friends attended the official opening ceremony together with the hospital’s leadership team and radiography department.
Photo above courtesy Queen Victoria Hospital. James Lowell, Chief Executive Officer of Queen Victoria Hospital, cuts the opening ribbon with Bob Marchant, President of the League of Friends.
A new task force has been created to reduce traffic disruption caused by utility works.
The taskforce, which is made up of representatives from water, energy and telecoms companies, held their inaugural meeting last week with Surrey County Council and will continue to meet monthly. It agreed to better co-ordinate and communicate details of the works, to minimise disruption for residents, and to introduce better escalation routes so the Council can quickly hold utility companies to account.
Utility companies’ demands in Surrey are amongst the top five highest in the UK with 88 works starting every day in the last twelve months.
