Today, I met with Surrey County Council leader, Tim Oliver, and Cabinet Member for All-Age Learning, Julie Iles, to discuss the supply of secondary school places across Esher & Walton and the progress being made towards the completion of (the permanent site for) Cobham Free School and Heathsi
On Friday, I attended a valuable roundtable with local businesses from different sectors in Esher and Walton, including Creative Nature, a health food company, and Plus4Group, who develop software.
Today, I visited Three Rivers Academy to congratulate the school on their new Ofsted rating of Good. This is really well-deserved, and down to the leadership of headteacher, Anne-Louise Payne, and the hard work of all the teachers, support-staff and pupils to raise the standard.
On Friday, I visited Cobham Free School (CFS) to look at their developing plans for their permanent secondary school site at Munro House, Portsmouth Road, in Cobham.
This week, I have written to Heathrow Airport to nail down local assurances that residents will be protected from increased levels of noise, traffic and air pollution from two proposed changes to how planes fly over our constituency.
Last Friday, I visited Shooting Stars Children’s Hospice in Hampton, an inspirational organisation that provides palliative and respite care to children and their families across Surrey and London, including families here in Elmbridge.
The Dylan Howells Foundation (DHF) was established in 2017 in memory of the late Dylan Howells. Dylan grew up in Molesey and Claygate including sixteen years living in Thames Ditton before passing away in 2016.
Last Friday, I attended a roundtable lunch discussion in Esher with some of our fantastic local businesses, from Haines Watts accountants in Esher to Hurst Park Automobiles, who specialise in the restoration and sale of classic British cars.
On Wednesday, I attended ONE Campaign’s Health Heroes Parliamentary Reception to introduce Vreni Oleram. Vreni runs the Esher College Africa Trust, which raises funds to support the Dope School in rural Zimbabwe to help pay school fees for children whose parents have died of HIV/AIDS.
