Category Archives: community
Beare Green needs you (Questionnaire)
IT’S TIME TO RENEW THE VILLAGE HALL AND THE BGCA NEED YOUR HELP Our village hall needs a facelift to bring it up-to-date and in to the 21st century, also to leave a legacy for the future. We want to create a … Continue reading
Playbuilder Projects: Winning Designs Announced
After many months we finally have a winner. Playdale, the company behind the winning designs, for Beare Green, has produced a great play area design. Beare Greenians from Mole Valley have chosen the winning designs for the new Beare Green … Continue reading
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Autumn composting the easy way
In an effort to manage Surrey’s waste in the most efficient, economic and sustainable way possible, the Surrey county council launched a home composting message and since then they’ve sold nearly 3,000 bins. This time of year is in fact a great … Continue reading
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Holmwood Station
Holmwood station in Beare Green is a gem. It’s our main public transport service for local and near local residents. Whilst the frequency of service to low (not necessarily a bad thing), we do need to give the station the … Continue reading
Safer neighbourhood policing newsletter: Tagging local graffiti
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That’s the spirit (Community).
I’ve just read an article from www.circleanglia.org, Home Matters, where our village members, Julie Beach (Area Housing Manger), Adrian Birtchnell (Community Warden) and Mandy Eggleton (Housing Management Support Officer), have been working with other residents of Beare Green to improve their … Continue reading
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Let it snow… in Beare Green
Like many parts of the UK Beare Green got its fair share of the snowy weather. The snow started falling late Thursday evening (17th December). I noticed it falling quite hard as I returned home late on platform 2 (Holmwood … Continue reading
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Local Beare Green pubs – any good?
I’ve been a local resident (in Beare Green) for ~3 years now and I’ve yet to drink from a ‘local’ pub. Bad huh? Some might argue that I’m missing out, but not being an avid pub socialite or drinker, I … Continue reading
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Oil – to drill or not to
It shouldn’t come as a surprise when you read that there are plans to drill (for oil). Why? Because we humans have always put making money ahead of everything (gross generalisation I know – I’m guilty of this too sometimes). … Continue reading
Cutting the trees
I recently returned home after a lovely holiday in South Africa to find the playground tree had been cut back. I cannot see an obvious reason for it other than whilst away winds broke a branch of the tree and … Continue reading
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