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NEXT BCA MEETING - 17th November. We have a special speaker, Michael Drakeford, who will be talking about his new book on the houses of Abbotswood. The meeting starts at 8pm at Sutherland Memorial Hall. We look forward to seeing you.

The Burpham Community
Association Says

DON'T WRECK
GUILDFORD

Did you know that the Government plans to build 8,000 to 10,000 new homes in Guildford? A vast estate of 2,000 of these will be built on Gosden Hill area (Green Belt) in Burpham.

Find out what you
need to do, click here.

SAVE THE GREEN MAN CAMPAIGN

LATEST UPDATE, click here.

In spite of Aldi's assurances that they would advise us of any planned activities, this obviously wasn't happening when we discovered the roof was being removed on 5th April. We discovered at the end of May 2008 that Aldi have anticipated demolishing the Green Man in July. If this is what they do indeed plan on doing, this gives us very little time to take action.

The site needs to be kept as a pub and restaurant as the community of 4,000 has nowhere to go. The other pub 800 metres from the park changing rooms is too small so cannot cope with cricket and football teams and is too far for young families to walk to from the park. This site has been a pub since 1593 and must stay this way.

This link will take you to GBC's website comments page where you can send comments via e-mail, online form or using their postal address. Click here

(b.t.w. The 4,000 figure is the amount of people on the electoral register in Burpham)

Burpham Primary School is 100 years old! Help celebrate, click here.

Burpham (pronounced Ber-fam) is a leafy village of around 2000 homes on the north-eastern edge of Guildford, Surrey. We have close links with Merrow village to one side and Jacobswell village on another. We see Burpham as a perfect place to live, combining virtually everything you would expect to find in a modern community with the traditional aspects you would also hope to find in an old English village.

This is primarily the website of the Burpham Community Association (BCA). The BCA was formed in 1973 as a result of a group of residents wanting to unite and to act for the community in local affairs. In the beginning, families chose to join the association and paid 10p per person to join. An inaugural meeting was held, a committee formed and a constitution framed. 500 households joined initially. For over 30 years now, the BCA has been working for the community. Local residents have given their time and energy free of charge as they believe in Burpham as a great place to live.

Some of the initial problems facing the BCA at its start were a public enquiry into the new site for the A3 and the proposal to build another estate on Weylea Farm. The first newsletter published by the BCA was dated November 1973, and these have been published on a fairly regular basis ever since. In the last twelve months there has been a new publication called Burpham Pages which is delivered to over 2,000 homes in Burpham every two months

Burpham is a delightful place and we hope that you enjoy it as much as we do. If you would like to help us preserve the character and spirit of the village please feel free to contact us and come along to our monthly meetings. See meetings page for further details.

Website last updated or reviewed by Zoe Deterding-Barker on Monday 17th November 2008. Please let me know if there is anything you would like to see included on this website, any errors or any broken links. See "Contact Us" on the left panel. Thank you.

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