Supporting Epsom and Ewell's Local Regiment! Success

How much does it take to make Independent Resident Association councillors have a change of heart?

• 3500 leaflets
• Close to 3000 signatures
• Over 2000 e-mails from YOU the electors of Epsom and Ewell
• 200+ man hours stood in Epsom High Street
• 8 Newspaper articles
• 4 Months of non-stop activity by your Local Conservative Party
• 1 television report

= Freedom of the Borough for the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment - Epsom and Ewell's Local Regiment!

The Story of the Campaign

On Tuesday 10 November, the eve of Remembrance Day, Conservative Party Councillor Sean Sullivan proposed a special meeting of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council should convene to discuss and inevitably grant Freedom of the Borough to the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment alongside the 35 Independent Topographic Squadron Royal Engineers (TA); showing support for the local TA regiment and our local regular army regiment, where all who join the infantry from Epsom and Ewell serve.

You might think that no-one could have voted against such a meeting to discuss this important issue, but Cllr Sullivan and his supporters faced a barrage of disapproval from councillors who would not even discuss the issue, saying the Regiment ‘weren’t local enough’, and granting of such a high honour to the PWRR would be ‘inappropriate’.

Since that vote, a group of individuals who felt the Councillors were not representing public opinion collected nearly 3000 signatures to show the Councillors they were wrong and not representative of their residents. At the Council meeting on the 15th December, the meeting was granted by a narrow margin. After the Christmas period and time for reflection, a unanimous vote at a special meeting passed the motion - granting the Freedom of the Borough of Epsom and Ewell to the brave soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment!

Something that should never have been in question!

A Message from the Campaign Team

Thank you to everyone, without you, the people, the electors of Epsom and Ewell, rallying to this cause in this way shows just how out of touch the ruling Residents Association is with your opinions.
For your support; e-mails to councilors, for your signatures and kind words in the street we thank you - we thank you most sincerely.