Esher and Walton

Elmbridge's final full council meeting of 2019 saw the Resident Association parties and Liberal Democrats revert to type: by wasting taxpayers' money and watering down defence of the Green Belt.

First they changed the way the borough charges for car parking, by linking hourly rates to occupancy levels. This risks a situation where a car park user can buy a ticket at one price and discover to their cost that the hourly rate has gone up while they were away (a recipe for confusion or worse).