Why not set some New Year’s recycling resolutions?

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Here are a few New Year’s resolutions to help everyone get into the habit of reducing waste: Reduce your waste – buy only what you need and try to buy with little packaging. Reuse what you can – buy products that can be reused (rechargeable batteries, bottles instead of cans etc), take old carrier bags [...]

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October half term activities

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Reigate & Banstead Borough Council is offering loads of exciting activities across the borough for 7 to 15 year olds this October half term. The school holiday fun includes trampolining, the gymnastic sport parkour, film animation, indoor rock climbing and modern pentathlon. Activities run from Monday 24 to Friday 28 October. “Our youth holiday activity [...]

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Priory Park wins gold In Bloom award

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Priory Park has won a gold South & South East in Bloom award. The award, the third the park has scooped in the past month, is for the large park category. Judges branded it a superb example of a park being bought up to date and providing just what the customer wants. The play area [...]

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Council wants your views on key planning issues

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Residents are being asked by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council to have their say on a number of important issues that will affect how the borough changes over the next 15 years. The Council is consulting on the outstanding issues to be decided in our Core Strategy and wants to know what is most important [...]

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Free access to Reigate & Banstead’s heritage open days

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Heritage open days will take place across Reigate & Banstead between Thursday 8 and Sunday 11 September giving local residents free access to historic buildings, medieval caves, churches and museums not normally opened to the public. The historic Town Hall in Reigate is opening its doors to the public on Saturday 10 September from 10am [...]

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Don’t forget to have your say on Merstham regeneration proposals

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Don’t forget or miss out on giving your views on the proposals by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council and Raven Housing Trust to regenerate the area in and around Portland Drive at the public consultations being held on the dates below. To find out more, details of the proposals will be on display at the [...]

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Surrey Police gets the go-ahead for new custody centre in Salfords (from Redhill and Reigate Life)

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Full article here. The Planning Inspector’s decision can be found at this link:  Decision Notice

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Swap your old crusts for free bird food during bread amnesty

Visitors to Priory Park can swap their leftover loaves for a free bag of bird food next week to feed the ducks that live on the lake. The Council is holding its annual bread amnesty from Monday 25 July to Friday 29 July to celebrate Love Parks Week. Visitors to Priory Park can swap their [...]

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Only two weeks left to nominate people for the Mayor’s Volunteer Awards

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The Mayor of Reigate & Banstead, Councillor Brian Stead, is encouraging all residents, community groups and voluntary organisations to nominate their dedicated volunteers to receive a Mayor’s Volunteer Award, in recognition of the valuable work they do.  The deadline for nominations closes on 29th July. The Mayor said: “Volunteers provide an outstanding level of care [...]

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Merstham estate regeneration moves a step closer

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The regeneration of Merstham estate could move a step closer next week. Proposals for improvements to the estate, particularly the Portland Drive area, are to be discussed by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council’s Executive at their meeting on Thursday 21 July. The proposals detail where new building might take place and what sort of developments [...]

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