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And hello, welcome to your Planet Reigate Podcast. This is Peter Stewart. Welcome to episode 61. This is how we're reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week. Well, my guest this week, Rob Wilson, who runs Veteran Gin in Smallfield, the gin which remembers the nation's fallen in a unique way and whose profits go to help service personnel today. In the news, first results are in after a series of Harlequin consultation events. Approval has been given for 120 flats in Redhill despite flood safety worries. I'll tell you details of a local drop-in event with advice on keeping your energy bills and water bills low and details too of warm hub locations locally over the winter as well.
An unusual appeal to help children in East Surrey Hospital. Details on how you can help are on the way. And a local charity quick off the mark sending me details of locally grown Christmas trees to raise funds. I'll give you a rundown of local Remembrance Day events happening as well. In sport, we feature a local pool challenge to get involved with. We have the good time guide of events across the area across the week ahead. Local weather stats so far this winter. Planet Reigate stars from Red Hill this week. And our 60-second soundscape before we go. At the end of the show, natural sounds from a place you know. And this week, from Brockham on the banks of the River Mole with Blackbird, Wren,
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The Belfry Shopping Centre, Redhill.
Let's get to it with our news sequence this week. Harlequin updates the response to those open events across the borough. Remember those that happened in October? Well, the council says 160 people went to those various events and they had over 500 questionnaire responses. It doesn't seem an awful lot to me. I mean, that's barely more than the Harlequin Main Theatre actually holds, isn't it? The council says they're looking at the feedback to help them understand community aspirations, and they'll take all that information to inform the development of options for the future provision, both short-term, medium-term, long-term as well. Not just necessarily at the Harlequin, but it may be somewhere else in the borough. It may never be called the Harlequin again, let's be totally honest.
I think from what I understand, almost everything is up for grabs. Now, with regard to the theatre building itself, they say they do anticipate reports of the rack and building surveys to be issued in the next couple of three weeks, certainly this month, for analysis and consideration, unquote. But before any decisions are taken on next steps, then the councillors will need to have the opportunity to consider the costs involved. and obviously the implications of whatever those surveys actually come up with. And all of that will inform a report to the executive in January. So the report being given to the councillors in the next couple of three weeks, and then a big executive meeting in January. Of course, the Planet Reigate podcast will be looking over that. All of that information as it becomes available. Now, you can listen to more about the Harlequin in episode 48. We've got a breakdown of the reasons for the Harlequin closure.
Got a kind of straightforward Q&A style there. In episode 49, audio highlights of that council meeting decision on what was going to happen next. In episode 53, reaction from the Harlequin support groups Ali Bond. And in episode 57, the reaction of people leaving the first arts and culture consultation event run by Reigate and Bandit Head Power Council, which was focused on the Harlequin, which is what started this particular story in this new sequence on this week's edition. So episodes 48 and 49, 53 and 57 of the Planet Reigate podcast. Approval has been given for 120 assisted living flats in Redhill, as despite flood safety worries. So that draft scheme is for Noak Drive, which runs next to Redhill Brook, sits in high and medium risk flood zones, as the name might suggest, next to Redhill Brook. Did I ever tell you my first flat was on Brook Road in Redhill? To the Willows. I don't know who lives there now.
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