Surrey Heath

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Valley End church which lies within Surrey Heath borough

Borough of Surrey Heath
Shown within Surrey
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Surrey
Area: - Total	Ranked 250th 95.09 km²
Admin. HQ:	Camberley
ONS code:	43UJ
Demographics
Population: - Total (2006 est.) - Density	Ranked 284th 82,400 867 / km²
Ethnicity^[1]:	95.4% White 2.1% S.Asian 1.0% Black 1.4% Chinese or Other 1.4% Mixed Race
Politics
Surrey Heath Borough Council http://www.surreyheath.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative
MP:	Michael Gove

Surrey Heath is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. Its council is based in Camberley. Much of the area is within the Green Belt.

The 3 May 2007 borough elections produced 30 Conservative seats, 7 Liberal Democrat seats, 2 Labour seats and 1 other.^[2]

The borough acquired its name because it includes extensive areas of heath and woodland including Chobham Common and Lightwater Country Park. Within the borough there are five Sites of Special Scientific Interest, four of which are part of the Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area of European Importance as a habitat for certain endangered bird species.

The western section of the district is urbanised, with Camberley, Lightwater, Deepcut, Frimley, Frimley Green and Mytchett. The east of the district is less urbanised, and contains Surrey Heath's four civil parishes^[3]:

Bisley
Chobham
West End
Windlesham (contains Bagshot and Lightwater, in addition to Windlesham village itself).

The district was formed on April 1, 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, as a merger of Frimley and Camberley urban district, and Bagshot Rural District.

Was voted 6th best place to live in Channel 4's Location, Location, Location 'best and worst' survey.^[4]

1 Parish councils
2 Energy policy
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Parish councils

Parish councils in Surrey Heath are in Bisley with the chairman being Cllr Barry Woodhead; Chobham with the chairman being Cllr Ian AC Taylor; West End with the chairman being Cllr David Elliott and Windlesham (which includes Lightwater and Bagshot) where the chairman is Cllr Bryan Ward.^[5]

[edit] Energy policy

In May 2006, a report commissioned by British Gas [1] showed that housing in Surrey Heath produced the 3rd highest average carbon emissions in the country at an average of 7,477 kg of carbon dioxide per dwelling.