Contact and Support

If you would like to send a message of support to Dr Guilder directly, please email [email protected] and the family will pass it on to him. Messages are treated in confidence and will not be published or quoted without your permission.

If, following the focused consultation and the examiner’s findings, Mole Valley District Council decides to keep Policy WNDP7 (the surgery safeguarding policy) in the Plan, the Neighbourhood Plan moves to its final stage: a village-wide referendum.

The referendum is a single yes/no vote on the whole Plan — it is not possible to vote on individual policies. If more than half of those voting vote yes, the Plan is adopted and becomes part of the statutory development plan used to decide planning applications in Westcott. If not, it does not come into force.

A referendum date has not yet been set. We recommend that every resident votes — it is the final opportunity for your opinion to be heard.

This has never been an objection to the Neighbourhood Plan itself. Dr Guilder’s concern is with one policy, and the family hopes the final Plan will be one the whole village can support.

The neighbourhood-plan process for Riverbank Surgery is run by the bodies below, and this website links to the documents they have published. For matters that concern them directly, their own websites are the best place to go:

• Mole Valley District Council — planning and building and its planning consultations. Email [email protected], or the planning-policy team at [email protected].
• Westcott Village Forum and Association — the Westcott Neighbourhood Development Plan pages and the planning page. Email [email protected] or [email protected].

If you have any queries about the neighbourhood plan process, any of the representations made, or anything else concerning Riverbank Surgery, the bodies involved are listed below with links to their public contact details.

Your local councillors

• Mole Valley District Council — the local planning authority responsible for the Neighbourhood Plan process. Find your district councillor.
• Surrey County Council — find your county councillor.

Your Member of Parliament

• The MP for the Dorking and Horley constituency — contact details are on the UK Parliament website.

Dorking Medical Practice

• The GP practice which operates from Riverbank Surgery. Contact details are on its website.

NHS Surrey and Sussex Integrated Care Board

• The NHS body responsible for commissioning local GP services and for decisions about how and where those services are provided. Contact the Integrated Care Board.

The Government’s 10 Year Health Plan for England

• Fit for the Future (July 2025) — the national plan for the NHS, including its policy on neighbourhood health services. Read it on GOV.UK.

If you want to read the plan and the current consultation for yourself, these are the primary documents. They are also collected, with dates and context, on the Sources page.

The neighbourhood plan (Westcott village website)

• The Westcott Neighbourhood Development Plan pages — the village website’s hub for the plan and its supporting documents.
• Westcott Neighbourhood Development Plan 2020–2039, final submission version (PDF).

The Mole Valley focused consultation and its documents

• Mole Valley’s Westcott Neighbourhood Plan examination page — the Council page from which the focused consultation on Riverbank is run.
• Focused Consultation Document — WNDP7 Community Assets (PDF).
• Independent Examiner’s Report (PDF).
• Mole Valley Decision Statement (PDF).