As many of you will be aware, a hosepipe ban, enforced by South East Water, has come into force today, preventing use of a hosepipe, unless the following circumstances apply:

In response to Greg’s request for a vaccination centre in Tunbridge Wells, the local NHS has announced that a new COVID-19 pop up vaccination clinic will be available for people:

I wanted to provide a brief update on the situation following the closure of St James' School. 
 

Greg's Private Members' Bill, the Protection from Sex-based Harassment in Public Bill, passed its Second Reading in the House of Lords. One of the UK’s most respected lawyers, Lord Wolfson of Tredegar, who helped draft the proposed law, has been arguing the case for it.

Greg said:

I promised that I would provide an update following the meeting I had a few days ago with the specialist engineers at Southern Gas Networks, who are planning to replace the gas main on the Pembury Road which serves much of Tunbridge Wells.

I have been contacted by a number of constituents in recent weeks who are deeply concerned about the unacceptable behaviour of a number of youths in the St John’s area and Tunbridge Wells town centre. There is also a separate group causing trouble to local people and shops in Paddock Wood.

I wanted to update you on what I understand about the water outage we have been experiencing.

As promised, I spoke to the Chief Executive of South East Water at 1pm today.

Following reports of water outages across Tunbridge Wells this morning, Greg issued the following update to constituents:

Every resident of Tunbridge Wells and every visitor knows that getting to the town centre from the outskirts is usually a time-consuming experience.  The A264 Pembury Road vies with the A26 London Road though Southborough and St John’s for title of the most frustrating road in town.

Greg visited Fountain Lodge in Southborough today to chat its residents, enjoy some tea and cake and to hand out thank you gifts to staff for their hard work.