The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community based in Farnham are introducing a new campaign called ‘Cheap & Easy Cooking’ in an effort to try and play a part in reducing food poverty. Do visit the link, there are some cheap and cheerful curry dishes that you can make for the family!
‘Cheap & Easy Cooking’ campaign from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community:
These are difficult times, and amongst the many problems affecting people food poverty is sharply on the rise. According to the UN millions of people in the UK struggle to get enough food to eat.
In an effort to try and play our part to help address this dire problem, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK is launching a campaign called ‘Cheap & Easy Cooking’. As part of this campaign we have produced the attached booklet to help you cook five Indian curries cheaply, easily and healthily, with meals starting at only 9p per serving.
The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness among people to save money by cooking budget friendly dishes at home rather than eating costly meals from outside. The campaign consists of distributing a recipe booklet containing easy to follow instructions to make delicious Indian curries along with online videos that show how these can be cooked. These videos can be watched at: https://www.LoveForAllHatredForNone.org/cheap-easy-cooking/
We are also distributing some Curry Starter Packs to the local Food Bank, which will also include the basic ingredients so that people can easily and quickly get started.
There will be a temporary road closure during the night of the 25th of September 2020 between 7pm and 7am. Vehicles will be prohibited from entering and proceeding in that length of A325 Wrecclesham Road that extends from its junction with A325 The Street, to its junction with Ellerton Way. This is for SES Water to carry out reinstatement and/or maintenance works.
Advanced warning signs will be displayed and the temporary closure will only operate when the relevant traffic signs are displayed. Access for emergency services, residents, businesses, pedestrians, cyclists and equestrians will be maintained at all times. The vehicular diversion route will be via: Northbound – The Street, Wrecclesham Hill, Echo Barn Lane, Shortheath Road, Ridgway Road, Firgrove Hill, Old Farnham Lane, Great Austins, Tilford Road, Station Hill, Farnham By-Pass (WB) and Weydon Lane. Southbound – Weydon Lane, Farnham By-Pass (EB), Shepherd & Flock R/A, Farnham By-Pass (WB), Station Hill, Tilford Road, Great Austins, Old Farnham Lane, Firgrove Hill, Ridgway Road, Shortheath Road, Echo Barn Lane, Wrecclesham Hill and The Street.
Below is a map displaying diversion routes:
Wrecclesham Village Voice, in conjunction with local Councillors Paula Dunsmore and Wyatt Ramsdale, advise a public consultation on the provision of a pedestrian crossing on The Street is now open.
Summarised below are the four crossing options as detailed in Surrey County Council’s feasibility study. These are based on last year’s pedestrian crossing survey and more recent analysis of vehicle’s speed and driver’s sight lines. All the options proposed are for the provision of a crossing at some point along a section of road between 60 and 68 The Street. Following a review of replies and confirmation of our resident’s preferred option further feasibility work and approvals will be required before this project can progress. Expanded summary details of the proposals, and a copy of the full feasibility report, are linked below.
- Option 1 – a lights controlled crossing with audible signals at the site. To facilitate this it is proposed the current bus layby is relocated to the parking layby near number 38 The Street with a subsequent loss of resident’s parking spaces.
- Option 2 – a pedestrian refuge island at the site. To facilitate this it is proposed the current bus layby is filled in, the bus will stop in approximately the same place but at the newly built kerb.
- Option 3 — an uncontrolled crossing at the site. To facilitate this it is proposed the current bus layby is relocated to the parking layby near number 38 The Street with a subsequent loss of resident’s parking spaces.
- Option 4— an uncontrolled crossing at the site with the bus layby retained.
The estimated costs range is from up to £90,000 (Option 4 ) to £200,000 (Option 1), excluding utility relocation costs.
If you would like to comment on the proposals and specify your preferred option please email the local Councillors who have worked with WVV on this project for the past 18 months
Please put – Pedestrian Crossing Consultation – in the subject line.
Only email replies received by 23:59 on 9th August 2019 will be considered.
View the reports:
An update from our dedicated Speedwatch team can be downloaded below.
Thank you all for your support and postings which helped us prove action was required. We have an additional request for our community. Recent discussions with a representative from the Road Haulage Association have highlighted the need to record the names of any haulage companies involved in these high risk incidents. If you are ‘first on the scene’ and have the time please record as many details as possible and post online for us to pick up and record. It would be a big help. Thank you again for your ongoing support with this campaign.
NOTICE: THE SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL, ECHO BARN LANE (B3384) WRECCLESHAM, TEMPORARY PROHIBITION OF TRAFFIC ORDER 2018
SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL PROPOSE TO MAKE the above mentioned Temporary Order under Section 14(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, the effect of which will be to temporarily prohibit vehicles from entering or proceeding in that length of Echo Barn Lane (B3384) Wrecclesham as extends from its junction with Wrecclesham Hill to its junction with Manley Bridge Road. Vehicular traffic will be diverted via Echo Barn Lane, School Hill, The Street and Wrecclesham Hill or this route in reverse order.
This Order is required to enable Surrey County Council to carry out carriageway resurfacing works. These works are anticipated to be carried as soon as possible, between 07.00hrs and 17.00hrs, during the eighteen month period of operation of this Order which commences on 12 November 2018. Advanced warning signs will be displayed and the temporary closure will only operate when the relevant traffic signs are displayed. Access to premises within the affected length of Echo Barn Lane, including access for emergency vehicles to these properties, will be maintained at all times, as will access for pedestrians and cyclists. Any vehicle found to be obstructing the highways during these works will be removed to a suitable location outside the limits of the works after all reasonable methods have been undertaken to identify and contact the vehicle’s owner.