Effingham Residents Association
Effingham Residents Association (EFFRA)
An Effingham parish councillor was breathalysed and arrested this morning (August 25, 2017) after he had blocked the entrance to playing fields where Gypsies and Travellers are encamped. Several members of the encampment spent an hour attempting to persuade Cllr Continue Reading
Effingham Cricket Club have opened an online book of condolences where friends, family members and teammates have paid heartfelt tributes to Mark Collin, who died after suffering a cardiac arrest during a match on Saturday (August 19). Read more about Continue Reading
TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh has hit out at a road-widening scheme that threatens a swathe of Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) woodland. The RHS said there were two options to widen the A3 in Surrey as part of M25 improvements and Continue Reading
The garden could lose 10,000 square metres and 500 trees, some of which are more than 100 years old, if one of the options considered by Highways England goes ahead The Grade II listed garden has said it would be Continue Reading
The disgusting state of the playing fields left by the last “travellers” in Cobham was appalling. Abandoned cars, human excrement, garden waste… all left to the council and us the local residents to foot the bill. Read more about John Continue Reading
Thursday 24 August 2017, the Trustees of the charity, Effingham Village Recreation Trust, have provide an update on the incursion of Travellers onto the King George V Playing Fields, via their website Precautions were taken last night to enhance the Continue Reading
Coverage of the incursion of Travellers onto Effingham Common and the King George V Playing Fields has so far been muted in the press, with the exception of the Guildford Dragon which has covered both incursions in two articles. A Continue Reading
The Trustees of the charity, Effingham Village Recreation Trust, have issued the following statement via their website As many residents will know there has been an incursion of travellers with caravans and other vehicles onto the KGV premises on 23rd Continue Reading
On Wednesday 23 August there was another Traveller invasion in Effingham. This time Travellers cut the chain on the A246 gate to the King George V Playing Fields The KGV Playing Fields and Hall are managed by the charity, the Continue Reading
Guildford Borough Council has issued the following statement on Tuesday 22 August 2017 to all Effingham Residents. We have a traveller incursion on Effingham Common and I set out status and actions below. Details as of 2pm today: 7 Caravans Continue Reading