Tesco have applied to Mole Valley District Council for a premises licence at the old Co-op building at the top of Bookham High Street. The consultation closes on 4^thMarch.

Full details of the application, including how to comment, can be found online at:

https://www.molevalley.gov.uk/home/business/licences/alcohol-and-entertainment

Submission of the Mole Valley Draft Local Plan to the Government Inspectorate - an important step for protecting our area and safeguarding our area against inappropriate and damaging development

At a Special Council meeting on 3rd February. Mole Valley District Council decided to submit the latest Draft Local Plan to the Government's Planning Inspectorate.

Mole Valley District Council has updated its licensing policies to include additional safeguards in bars and clubs for anyone targeted in spiking and needle attacks. Bookham Councillor Elizabeth Daly, who took over as Chair of the Council's Licensing Committee last year, said:

"As a former nursery worker, I am very aware of the dangers in licensed premises. We are of course dependent on action by the police and government restrictions, but protecting young people will remain one of our top priorities."

We all fear that in the end, it will be our children who have paid the price for this pandemic.

Countless hours of invaluable face-to-face learning time has been lost to Covid. And Boris Johnson's failure to defend our children's education meant that his Government spent the same amount in one month on Eat Out To Help Out as it did for our children's school catch-up in a whole year.

WELCOME GREAT NEWS FROM THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS

Welcome to my first Blog specially to keep you up to date with what I am doing as the Climate Change Member for Mole Valley. I am very privileged to have this position and take my work very seriously. So much so, I have gone back to Uni. as a mature student and am studying Sustainable Development and Environment. Here are some of the things we have been moving forward with.

Congratulations from the Mole Valley team to our newest MP, Helen Morgan, who achieved a tremendous result in the North Shropshire by-election.

The Liberal Democrats are the party of empowering people and supporting parents and children is our top priority in the new fair deal we offer.

To deliver this we are calling for a £15billion investment in education to help a generation of young people whose education has been affected by the pandemic. A third of the money would go direct to parents to spend on whatever help their children need most: tutoring in reading, writing or maths; music lessons; swimming classes or other physical education.

Welcome to our local Mole Valley survey.

The Covid 19 pandemic has changed lots of things about our world and the way we live our lives. This has impacts in our local communities. So it's important for us to make sure we are up-to-date on what people are thinking so that we can respond appropriately.

There is no denying it: climate change is real - and if urgent action is not taken now it could be too late.

This summer saw more wildfires and flash floods across the world. Temperatures are rising year on year.

"It is clear that we must take this issue seriously," says Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey MP. "Yet the Conservative Government is delaying climate action and the Prime Minister still cannot make up his mind whether he cares about the climate or not."