An important consideration for the development of the Chippings Farm Green Belt site is the impact on the local traffic.
To understand this better we are conducting a Traffic Survey based on advice from a traffic consultant.
Our original intention was to perform the survey before Easter but due to the various roadworks and events at the ACS school it was felt that this would be unrepresentative of normal traffic flows, so the traffic survey will be taking place on Tue 29th April and Thu 1st May.
We have been delighted with the response by local residents to help with the survey and we have mostly filled all the one hour long sessions required. However to make it as comprehensive as possible we would like a few more volunteers to act as observers so we can include more local road junctions as part of the survey.
On each of the days we have two 1 hour slots in the morning (7:30-8:30am & 8:30-9:30am) and three 1 hour slots in the afternoon (3:30-4:30pm, 4:30-5:30pm & 5:30-6:30pm). If you would like to volunteer for just one of these slots on either or both days that would enable us to make the traffic survey even more comprehensive. To volunteer or to find out more please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Our local MP Mr Dominic Raab says NO to Chippings Farm Development; he stated:
We sorely need extra secondary school places in Elmbridge and particularly in Cobham. I would love to see a free school built following the innovative example of the primary free school in Cobham. But it makes no sense locally to build a new school coupled with a housing development on the greenbelt, where all or most of the new places would be inundated by new demand from the extra development. On the one hand the Education Funding Authority (EFA) say they conduct estimates of the extra school places required for any such development. Yet, when I've asked the EFA for these estimates they have not been forthcoming. It just doesn't look like the EFA have done their basic homework.