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Surrey County Council has been awarded 5 years of funding by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) to create a Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC). The £5m funding will help the local authority to build capacity to do research on prevention and create a culture of using evidence in making decisions. NIHR … Continue reading
Surrey County Council will now use AI to detect potholes to help speed up road repairs across the county. Computer vision cameras fitted to dashboards inside highways vehicles will spot and photograph potholes which will then be automatically recorded for repair. Future enhancements will see other defects such as missing signs and foliage overgrowth also … Continue reading
School Crossing Patrol Officer, Susan Rodger, has received the British Empire Medal (BEM) for her services to the community in Thames Ditton. Sue has been a School Crossing Patrol Officer at Hinchley Wood Primary School since 2008, where she also previously set up a walking bus route and successfully campaigned for a school crossing. The … Continue reading
Surrey residents looking to upgrade their homes with energy saving ‘retrofit’ measures can now access guidance from Surrey County Council’s new Home Energy Improvement Guide. Over 300,000 homes in Surrey have low energy performance, meaning people live in homes which are poorly insulated, expensive to run, and prone to damp or mould due to inadequate … Continue reading
Surrey County Council’s Leader is to write to government to outline the county’s ambition to fully engage with the recent White Paper on Devolution. Following a full council meeting and Cabinet meeting today it has been agreed to request that Surrey is part of a ‘first wave’ of areas looking to take the opportunities presented … Continue reading
Surrey’s History Centre in Woking is proudly marking Holocaust Memorial Day in January 2025 with a brand new, month-long exhibition and an online, live event telling the stories of 13 British Born victims of Aktion T4. Aktion T4 was the Nazi extermination programme responsible for the deaths of approximately 70,000 adults with mental and physical … Continue reading
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