56: Celebrating Salfords, decluttering Redhill house-by-house… and more
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This is the Planet Reigate Podcast.
Hello, this is Peter Stewart. Welcome to This Week's Show, episode 56 of the Planet Rygo podcast. Hope you're well, and this is how we're reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week. Well, my guests, Claire Minter from Salford's and Sidlow Parish Council, on the day the BBC came to town. Now, last week, Radio 4 presented their live Any Questions debate show from the Village Hall. We hear from Claire about how it's put the area on the national map And also her definitive answer to the question, is it Salford's or Salford's? And Danielle Hardy from Redhill, who faced some local dragons to be named overall winner of this year's Reigate and Bandstead Entrepreneur Academy. Yeah, Danny's business helps busy and overwhelmed people find calm energy. in the chaos with her in-person decluttering and organising service. I spoke with Danny before she'd heard she'd won, went round to her home to have a rummage in her cupboards. It's OK, she didn't mind. And in the news, big building work at East Surrey Hospital has been given the go-ahead.
I'll tell you what's going to be built there and where. Congratulations to the Salford St Sidlow Parish Council. They're now the only parish council in the county to have been given a gold award. We remind you of the drop-in sessions about the Harlequin, which are happening this coming week. Building work is getting underway at Reigate Fire Station. I tell you how things are going to be improved and how the ambulance service will benefit as well. A local restaurant is closing down this weekend. The owners say being part of the local community has been one of the greatest joys of their life. Find out where the closed sign is going up later on in the show. In travel news, a reminder of those two big road projects ongoing, one in Reigate and one on the M25. We have the Good Time Guide of events across the area across the week ahead, local wet weather stats, Planet Reigate stars from Morrison's car park, and our 60-second soundscape before we go at the end of the show. Natural sounds from a place you know, this week from Earlswood Common.
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See, touch, smell and try before you buy and speak to real people who can advise you. The Belfry Shopping Centre, Redhill.
So another packed programme coming your way over the next hour or so. Last week we reported on the new Lidl site at their air balloon pub in Hawley. James wrote to me and said, Hi Peter, Lidl has announced they are closing the existing site whatever happens. Most of the locals are quite pro this air balloon site becoming a Lidl. The main object James points out was Tesco, who do so on principle to any proposed supermarket close to one of their larger sites. And of course, the Hookwood site is not too far away from that one. Only got James's word on that, but it sounds something that a big business might do to protect their interests. As I understand it, says James, the current Lidl site is currently listed for lease with commercial estate agents under the same use category. So that would give the impression that the current Lidl site in the centre of Hawley would likely become another shop, retail outlet, possible supermarket, food store, something along those lines.
I think it was suggested that it may become maybe flats, but we'll have to wait and see for that. And James finally says it might be a good site for either Reigate and Banstead or Hawley Town Council to consider creating a permanent indoor market or a space for pop-up shops. Yeah, I remember indoor markets were all the rage at one stage, weren't they? Certainly when I was growing up. And I was growing up in Epsom, incidentally, full disclosure. And there was an indoor market there, which seemed really, really popular. And I'm just kind of wondering why they kind of died down a little bit, didn't they? But that seems a really good. So it's a space where people have their own individual shops, but they're sharing the lease and the electricity and everything.
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