Priorities

Horley, Salfords and Sidlow face real pressures on infrastructure, housing, public safety, and local services. Andy’s priorities are shaped by long-standing local experience and a clear principle: growth and change must work for residents, not be imposed on them.

Gatwick Airport

Context

The Government is moving ahead with plans to bring Gatwick’s Northern Runway into routine use. The economic case is clear: jobs, supply-chain opportunities, and local growth. Horley often benefits from this.
But communities such as Charlwood, Leigh, Newdigate, and parts of Dorking bear the costs — increased traffic, noise and air pollution, pressure on roads and services, and the risk of overdevelopment.

Andy’s Position

  • Support the economic benefits, including jobs, apprenticeships, and local contracts.
  • Demand binding mitigation: air-quality monitoring, traffic management, noise reduction, and funded infrastructure.
  • Secure a Gatwick Fair Deal so affected communities receive real protection and compensation.
  • No blank cheque — expansion must work for every community it affects.

Growth, yes — but only with fairness, protection for residents, and proper local investment.

Asylum Hotels

Context

The use of local hotels for asylum accommodation has caused serious concern. Residents feel ignored, misled, and unsafe, particularly following serious criminal incidents. A lack of transparency and accountability has eroded trust.

Andy’s Position

  • Oppose the use of local hotels for asylum accommodation.
  • Press for the closure of asylum hotels in Horley and nearby towns.
  • Demand transparent crime reporting and clear police accountability.
  • Support legal immigration, while rejecting the dumping of illegal crossings on small towns.

Horley, Salfords and Sidlow are not dumping grounds. Community safety comes first.

Housing

Context

Across Dorking and Horley there has been a sharp rise in Houses in Multiple Occupation, many operating without proper licensing. This has led to overcrowding, parking pressure, waste problems, antisocial behaviour, and strain on GP surgeries and local services.

Andy’s Position

  • Enforce a proper HMO licensing regime with real penalties.
  • Close Article 4 loopholes that allow stealth conversions.
  • Back neighbourhood plans that protect streets from over-intensification.
  • Prioritise new family housing, not unchecked conversions.

Homes for families — not unregulated conversions.

Roads

Context

Surrey’s road repair system is widely seen as broken. Residents rightly ask why roads are patched repeatedly instead of being resurfaced properly. The current approach wastes money and delivers poor results.

Andy’s Position

  • Challenge the procurement model that rewards inefficiency.
  • Demand transparency in contractor performance, penalties, and payments.
  • Push for a long-term resurfacing programme, not endless patch jobs.
  • Introduce local monitoring so councillors and residents can hold contractors to account.
  • Pilot performance-based infrastructure contracts in Surrey.

Stop the waste. Fix the roads properly. A new way of doing things.