Agenda item

To provide Members with an Officer response to petitions previously submitted to the Local Committee.

Three petitions were received at the Local Committee meeting on 17^th March 2014:

i)  From AldrinFernandes which contained 48 signatures and read:

“We the undersigned petition Surrey County Council to ban HGV on Cadbury Road (A244).”

ii)  From Paul Marks which contained 429 signatures and read:

“We the undersigned petition Spelthorne Borough Council [and Surrey County Council] to compel Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review and mitigate the River Ash flood risk.”

iii)  From Martin Cherrett which contained 201 signatures and read:

“We call upon the Surrey County Council Local Committee in Spelthorne to make a public statement on the flooding in Greenlands Road and Leacroft, Staines-upon-Thames in the week beginning 10th February 2014.”

Responses attached

A formal response to the three petitions received at the Local Committee meeting on 17^th March 2014 was provided at Item 5a.  The response to Petition i) was taken after Item 10 and before the Highways items.  Petitions ii) and iii) were taken with Item 8 ‘Surrey Floods – Spelthorne’.  The three petitions were:

i)  From Aldrin Fernandes which contained 48 signatures and read:

“We the undersigned petition Surrey County Council to ban HGV on Cadbury Road (A244).”

ii)  From Paul Marks which contained 429 signatures and read:

“We the undersigned petition Spelthorne Borough Council [and Surrey County Council] to compel Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review and mitigate the River Ash flood risk.”

iii)  From Martin Cherrett which contained 201 signatures and read:

“We call upon the Surrey County Council Local Committee in Spelthorne to make a public statement on the flooding in Greenlands Road and Leacroft, Staines-upon-Thames in the week beginning 10th February 2014.”

The first petitioner was not present.  Cllr Chris Frazer acknowledged that the Cadbury Road issue is linked to the Feltham Road HGV issue.  Cllr Frazer, Mr Ian Beardsmore and Mrs Carol Coleman agreed to meet and work together to try to find a solution.

Mr Cherrett was present and he also represented Mr Marks.  Mr Cherrett stated that a key issue was the sluice gate and information obtained from a Freedom of Information request had been passed to Kwasi Kwarteng MP, who had raised the issue in Parliament.