The Lib Dems have been campaigning to give 16 and 17 year olds the vote for sometime now. Unfortunately, the Conservative Government has refused to allow young people the vote in the upcoming European Referendum - but the Lib Dems are now pushing to allow 16 and 17 year olds the vote in local elections.

Lib Dem Councillor Ian Johnson asked the Woking Council's Planning Committee to reject an application for an 8 storey block of 47 flats in York Road on Tuesday.

After the planning application was the presented to the Planning Committee, local ward Councillor Ian Johnson led the call for the application to be rejected. The committee eventually agreed that the development was too big and would be out of keeping with the neighbouring area.

Figures released by the Department for Health shows the Conservative Government is planning a further £1,837,022 cut to the public health budget in Surrey. The budget pays to help improve people's health - and stop them getting ill in the first place - so there is less pressure on the NHS.

Work undertaken by public health budgets include encouraging people to exercise more, give up smoking, drink less, come off drugs and drink and avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

The Lib Dems are calling on Woking Borough Council to improve public safety in Woking Park.

Lib Dem Councillor Ian Johnson will propose a motion during Thursday's Full Council meeting asking Woking Council to look into options for improving public safety in Woking Park.

Lib Dem Councillor for Mount Hermon West, Ian Johnson said:

Paul Kennedy has been selected by Surrey Liberal Democrats as their candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner election in May.

Woking Liberal Democrats are celebrating the election of James Sanderson as the new councillor for Goldsworth East - but campaigners were left disappointed as the Goldsworth West seat was lost by just 18 votes

Goldsworth Park has always been a closely fought contest between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservative Party and Thursday October 8th proved no different. The by-elections were prompted by the resignations of Lib Dem stalwarts Denzil and Amanda Coulson who have started a new life for their family overseas.
The closely fought campaign involved tens of thousands of leaflets, hundreds of doors knocked and many, many telephone calls from all parties. Turnout was therefore disappointing at just 28.58% in Goldsworth East and even less, at just 24.98% in Goldsworth West.

Tim Farron delivered his first speech to a Lib Dem Conference as leader of the party.

In it he called on the millions of liberals in Britain to become Liberal Democrats and join the party.

Full text of the speech

When I was growing up my school didn't have a sixth form. I guess that's because most of us didn't do A levels. So I went to a separate sixth form college - Runshaw in Leyland - and, in my first week, I joined the Liberal Party.

The Children's Improvement Plan 2015 to improve Surrey's inadequate Children's Services was today published by the County Council. The plan was required following the Ofsted inspection report published in June 2015 that rated Surrey's Children's Service as "inadequate". Inspectors concluded that there were "widespread and serious failures that potentially leave children at risk of harm."

New figures released by the Department of Health show the Conservative Government is planning a £2.2m cut to the public health budget across Surrey.

The public health budget pays to relieve pressure on local NHS hospitals and clinics by helping people to solve their own potential health problems before they become more serious. The budget includes work to help people to exercise more, give up smoking and tackle drug addiction.

Liberal Democrats vowed to 'step up to the plate' and tackle the humanitarian crisis across Europe as thousands of refugees flee Syria.

At the party's Autumn Conference, the Liberal Democrats laid out a comprehensive plan to deal with the humanitarian crisis facing Europe.

Members proposed to create safe and legal routes for refugees fleeing war or persecution. They agreed to: