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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

📅 Consultation closes 16 Nov 2025.
💬 Please share your views to help shape safer, greener, fairer streets in Egham Hythe.
👉 eghamhythe.commonplace.is

#Egham #Runnymede #SaferStreets #eghamhythe #pooleygreen #thorpe #surrey (7/7)

Egham Hythe Local Streets Improvements: Have your say!

Help shape the future of Egham Hythe by submitting your views on our proposals to make streets safer, healthier and more attractive with improved facilities for walking, wheeling and cycling.

eghamhythe.commonplace.is

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

🚧 I’m also pushing for funding to complete the second half of Pooley Green Road resurfacing with delivery planned for 2026. (6/7)

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

💷 On 16 Oct, Surrey officers submitted a bid for £600k CIL funding (developers pay per m² of new homes → local improvements).

Future bids will also target the Govt’s £291m Active Travel fund announced in Feb 2025. (5/7)

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

🔎 Current proposals include:
• Safer junctions & cycleways
• Parking bays on Roundway & Rowan Ave
• Public realm upgrades at Pooley Green Shops
• Restarting crossing at Thorpe Lea/Pooley Green roundabout (4/7)

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

🚸 Wesley Drive, Egham: new raised zebra crossing + reduced speed outside Manorcroft School. Set to be delivered end of Oct/early Nov, making school journeys safer.
👉 one.network?GB145384101 (3/7)

Causeway one.network

One platform to plan, monitor, communicate and analyse traffic disruptions.

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

📅 Come along to our drop-in events at St Paul’s Church Hall, Staines (TW18 3HG):

Thu 23 Oct, 12–5pm

Sat 1 Nov 2025, 10:30–1pm (2/7)

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 2d

🚧 Safer Streets & Street Improvements – Consultation Open
We’ve already delivered the first pilot scheme in Egham Hythe (St Paul’s Rd, Bowes & Wapshott). Now it’s your turn to shape the next phase. Consultation closes 16 Nov.
👉 eghamhythe.commonplace.is (1/7)

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 14d

In 2024 we promised this scheme. It was delayed to 2025 to allow Thames Water to finish major works, incl. new water & drainage pipes — something myself, Rhys Davies & Cllr Ricky Milstead had been lobbying for.

Over £65k match funding secured by your Labour councillors.

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 14d

𝐆𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 🚧

The Glanty Roundabout, Egham will be resurfaced 3–7/8 Oct.
⏰ Closures 8pm–6am only – open in daytime.

🔗 More: one.network?GB144075637

#egham #pooleygreen #eghamhythe #runnymede #surrey

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · 14d

📬 Councillor Surgery this Saturday
🕥 10:30am–12:00pm
📍 St Paul’s Church Hall, Egham (entrance off St Paul’s Rd)

Note: New venue – no longer at Hythe Centre.
Drop in to raise issues or share ideas.

#Egham #Runnymede #Thorpe #PooleyGreen #EghamHythe #ThorpeLea

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 31

📬 Councillor Surgery this Saturday
🕥 10:30am–12:00pm
📍 St Paul’s Church Hall, Egham (entrance off St Paul’s Rd)

Note: New venue – no longer at Hythe Centre.
Drop in to raise issues or share ideas.

#Egham #Runnymede #Thorpe #PooleyGreen #EghamHythe #ThorpeLea

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 28

For 15 years, the Hythe Medical Practice has operated from temporary cabins. We knew that wasn’t good enough — so we acted.

The new GP surgery will be 4x the size, purpose-built, and fit to serve the community for decades to come.

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is what delivery looks like.

Real investment. Real change.
Led by your Labour & Co-op councillors — working for Egham Hythe, Pooley Green, and wider Runnymede.

#DeliveringForYou #LabourAndCoop #EghamHythe #Runnymede

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 28

🔧 Coming soon:
• 8 clinical and consulting rooms
• Modern space for staff and patients
• Primary, secondary, and community care
• Built to support 7,600+ local residents

This is local care, properly invested in.

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 28

This is the result of months of work — engaging NHS partners, pushing for the Hythe Centre to be repurposed, and making the case at Council.

We said we’d fight for better healthcare in Egham Hythe and Pooley Green — and we are.

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 28

We promised better local healthcare — and we’re delivering.

Together, we’ve secured the next step for a bigger, better GP surgery in Egham Hythe.

📅 View plans: 13 Aug, 2:30–6:30pm
📍 Hythe Centre

See more here shorturl.at/yOjgc

#egham #eghamhythe #runnymede #surrey #pooleygreen
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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 15

5/5)
📣 Our official petition is now live.

✅ It follows Surrey County Council’s democratic process
🗳️ It will be formally presented
✊ Make your voice count.

🔗 mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...

#StopTheBookingSystem #SurreyDeservesBetter #LyneCRC #CamberleyTip #Runnymede

ePetition - Stop the New Booking System at Camberley and Lyne Recycling Centres - Surrey County Council

mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 15

4/5)
Runnymede has 3 Conservative Cabinet members helping run the County Council.

Two now claim they “didn’t know” this was happening.

Either they weren’t told — or they weren’t paying attention.

Residents deserve better.

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 15

3/5)
Why this matters:
• Makes recycling harder for busy households
• Disadvantages older & vulnerable residents
• Won’t fix traffic
• Creates postcode inequality across Surrey

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 15

2/5)
The new system means:
📅 Advance 15-min slot required
🔟 Max 10 visits/month
🚫 No booking = No entry

Residents aren’t asking for barriers — they want access.

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 15

🛑 PETITION NOW LIVE
Surrey Conservatives are forcing a strict booking system on Camberley & Lyne (Chertsey) Recycling Centres from 11 August.

It’s unfair. It’s unnecessary. And now you can formally object.

👇 SIGN HERE:
🔗 mycouncil.surreycc.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...

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Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 12

🌹 Labour says: Scrap the booking system now.

#StopTheBookingSystem
#CamberleyTip
#LyneCRC
#SurreyDeservesBetter
#Runnymede
#ScrapThePlan
#Surrey

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 12

5️⃣ 📝 More details on the Tory plan:
• Trial runs: 11 Aug – 10 Nov
• Bookings open: 28 July
• You can book online, phone, or SMS (office hours only)
• 10 bookings/month per resident

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 12

4️⃣ 📣 What are we doing about it?

Labour’s @CllrRobKing is launching a formal petition via the official Surrey CC website on Monday.

We’re playing by the rules — and we’re ready to fight this properly.

Cllr Robert Ashley King 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 @robertk16.bsky.social · Jul 12

3️⃣ And here’s the kicker…

Runnymede has three Conservative cabinet members on Surrey County Council.
Yet TWO claim they didn’t know this was happening.

So either:
1️⃣ They’ve lost control
or
2️⃣ They didn’t read their briefings