76: Redhill’s new new-music nights… and moreFor Saturday 22nd February 2025 This is how we’re reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week:TIMECODE - 00:00 - What’s in this episode03:10 - Planet Reigate area news 15:20 – “Hello Redhill!” The onstage greeting at the first new music night event in the town last weekend. 18:40 – Reigate Roulette. A local resident tells us what they love most about living around here. 22:25 - The Good Time Guide: things to do and places to go 27:50 – GUEST: Redstart is the new local group formed by volunteers to bring original live music and performing arts to the area. Steve Trigg is one of the people behind it, and we spoke to him at their first event, held in an unusual location… 39:30 – Planet Reigate Stars: thanking local heroes. This week, praise for those who found cash scattered on Reigate high street 41:20 - The Sixty-second Soundscape. This week, Nutfield - Park Wood - robin, blackbird and a greater spotted woodpecker #Reigate #Redhill #Merstham #Buckland #Betchworth #Brockham #Bletchingley #Horley #Gatton #Earlswood #Charlwood #Hookwood #Outwood #Leigh #Nutfield #salfords #Woodhatch #SouthPark #Holmesdale #WrayCommon #Whitebushes #Sidlow #Meadvale If you get value from The Planet Reigate Podcast, please give us value back in return; click here to support us with a small donation: www.buymeacoffee.com/theplanetreigatepodcast or share us with your colleagues. A list of ‘the best of the guests’, and a link to hear each one, is on this Facebook post: https://tinyurl.com/prpbest *CREDITS:The seven-note Planet Reigate Theme is ©Peter StewartOther music www.Pond5.com:NEWS - ThomPie Item ID: 75456323GUEST BED - by SoundKit ID 089259782GTG - inspiringaudio Item ID: 116855857STARS - jwsaudio Item ID: 073206386 SOUNDSCAPE PolkadotFlowersMusic Item ID: 13630443176 ROCK - hard-driving - by four_track ID 092263391ROULETTE – RyanRapsys Item ID: 080062947 Listen: https://linktr.ee/PlanetReigatePodcast Web: www.ThePlanetReigatePodcast.com Facebook: www.Facebook.com/ThePlanetReigatePodcast Insta: theplanetreigatepodcast Email: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chapter 1: What is the Planet Reigate Podcast about?
This is the Planet Reigate Podcast.
Consecutive weekly episode 76. Hello, this is Peter Stewart. Welcome to your Planet Reigate Podcast. And this is how we're reflecting and celebrating our love of life around here this week. Well, Red Start is the new local group formed by volunteers to bring original live music and performing arts... to the Planet Reigate area, and it was their first event last weekend.
I was among the specially invited audience to see how it literally played out, and we have our interview a little bit later on in this week's show. Plus, people living on a road in Reigate say they want a local private road to be taken over by the council, so that one can be repaired, and so reduce traffic on their road. It's an unusual story. I'll explain it later on in the show.
We love to promote new businesses in the area, but sometimes they don't quite work out. This week, we bring you one of those sad stories. We've told you recently about the County Council's tree planting initiative. This week, the unusual story of how some of those trees were planted in the wrong place. and had to be dug up and moved somewhere else.
And the background to plans to build a solar farm near Lye. I'll bring you the reasons, plus what could be happening and responses to it as well. Plus a warning if you're driving near Earlswood Lakes over the next few weeks. A new walking group for women is starting up. I'll give you the details. Planet Rygate stars this week and prays for those who found cash.
scattered on reigate high street i know maria from red hill tells us what she loves about living life around here in our roulette feature and our 60 second soundscape before we go at the end of the show natural sounds from a place you know this week nutfield and park wood with robin blackbird and a greater spotted woodpecker this is the planet reigate podcast with peter stewart
And you can get a transcript of the show quickly, easily and free via the Apple podcast app. So find the show, tap the three dots and then tap on view transcript and you'll see all of the information that you need to know. And on the website at theplanetrigatepodcast.com, the last five episodes, links to all of the episodes and and direct links to every interview and feature in year one.
One-click links to the very best bits on the Planet Rygate podcast. And if you'd like to support us with a one-off donation, you can go to buymeacoffee.com slash the Planet Rygate podcast. Again, I self-fund this podcast, and if you get some value out of it, I'd like you to donate. It would be really kind of you, either a one-off or a regular donation.
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Chapter 2: What are the current issues in Reigate regarding local roads?
OK, let's go straight to our new sequence. And I can tell you about this unusual story from Rygate. So, High Trees Road. It leads up to Donata School, yeah. So, between Ringley Park Road and Chart Lane... That neck of the woods. It's a private road, as you're probably aware. And you may also know it's been closed to traffic since a sinkhole appeared in May last year. So that's quite a while.
And the closure of High Trees Road is causing a large increase in traffic on surrounding roads, which are public roads. So, as I say, High Trees Road is what's called an unadopted private road. So that means... It's usually up to residents to sort out and pay for any repairs, re-tarmacking, lights and so on.
And indeed, you would expect them to pay for the hole to be filled in and the road to be made safe. But obviously, that's taken quite some time for whatever reason. And as I say, traffic's been using nearby public roads, which of course everyone pays for. Whether you live on a private road or a regular road, you still pay for the public roads.
So now, a campaign has been set up to get Surrey County Council to recognise High Trees Road as a public right of way. So, a little bit of history. High Trees Road has existed for generations. I mean, it's shown on maps dating back centuries. to the 1800s, and it was there long before the nearby roads and the current houses were there.
It was the road leading up to that big building, which is now where Donata School is. But that building was there long before Donata School moved in. If you want to know the history of that building, then you can go back and listen to episodes 32 and 33.
of the Planet Rygate podcast because we went into quite some depth about who lived there, why they built it, what they did and their life and times and the whole story behind them. Really, really interesting stuff. But let's go back to the story in hand at the moment.
A concerned group of residents from nearby roads are looking to reinstate the access that has been there for decades and then fix that sinkhole. And they're after support because they say, quote, the local community relies on High Trees Road.
So if I'm reading this right, and it does seem a little bit unusual and a little bit complicated, people from neighbouring roads want the private roads to be adopted by Surrey County Council and to have the whole fixed. because they say that will reduce the traffic on their own roads, yeah?
It's unknown why the hole on High Trees Road hasn't actually been fixed yet, and even though there is a website for those concerned residents who live nearby, and you can
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Chapter 3: Why did By The Horns Brewing Company close down?
Well, a message this week from Chris and Alex at By the Horns Brewing Company, which has ceased trading and has entered liquidation. They had a base down at Salford's, as we have reported previously several times. In fact, they've had some some open days and they've encouraged people to go along there.
to their taproom and sample and buy, and that's where they've been doing their brewing, of course. Owners blame bad debtors, a volatile economy, and rent hikes as some of the reasons for the company's demise. The Surrey Brewery was a relatively big player in the regional brewing industry. It had a dedicated microbrewery and that on-site taproom at Salford's, as I say.
It's near the police custody suite down there on the left-hand side if you're going down to Hawley from Red Hill. And also, for a while, it was sold in Sainsbury's. The guys tell me, quote... We tried to salvage the business over the past year and more recently had the potential of a buyout, but all efforts unfortunately failed. We're, of course, pretty devastated.
It's been our life since we founded the brewery nearly 14 years ago. As gutted as we are to have a bit of closure on the business after a very stressful few years, it does feel like a weight off our shoulders. Yeah, By The Horns was founded in 2011 by Alex Bull, you kind of get how they got their name, and Chris Mills in South East London.
Following a decade of successes in 2021, they made a big decision to move production to that warehouse in Salfords, gave them more space, a big upgrade, and had a potential to produce 12,000 HL of beer. Now, I had to look up what HL was. I didn't realise HL is a hectolitre, which is a metric unit of volume equating to 100 litres.
So one HL is 100 litres, and they had the capacity to actually brew 12,000 of those. That's a lot of beer, isn't it? That's a fantastic Saturday night, that is. And during the COVID pandemic, they were okay. They were seeing successes with their online sales, but then things started to go a bit south in 2023.
They say in the short term, they're still going to be operating their bar that's inside AFC Wimbledon football stadium. And they're going to be working on the Crazy Gang beer brand for that football club as well. They're looking at other beer brewing bar hospitality concepts.
So our sympathies and support to Chris and Alex of By The Horns, who I'd met just a few weeks ago and had already recorded an interview with them before this news broke. So unfortunately, obviously, the interview talking about their life and times and. promoting the beer and the brewery and the taproom down there at Salford's. We'll never see the light of day.
Our complete and utter sympathies to Chris. As they say, it is a bit of a relief. They've got fingers in other pies and we wish them all the very best for the future. OK, someone's made a mistake. Get this.
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Chapter 4: What happened with the tree planting initiative in Whitebushes?
Leila wrote to me at hello at theplanetrygatepodcast.com to tell me about a pre-loved market. Adults and kids clothing. It's going to be at Salford's Village Hall on Sunday the 23rd of March between 1.30 and 4.30. Free entry and refreshments are available. So a bit of advance notice for that. That pre-loved market at Salford's Village Hall Sunday the 23rd from lunchtime through to the afternoon.
A reminder that Reigate and Redhill Festival is not too far away. There's just a few days left to actually enter it. So they've got more than 200 classes in music, speech and drama to choose from. Whatever your age, whatever your talent, and find out more, place your entry at rrfestival.org.
And the Planet Reigate podcast is proud to be official media partner with the Reigate and Red Hill Festival. That main festival, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is in May. And you can see rrfestival.org for more details. Love is in the air for frogs and toads, but their search for the perfect partner this spring is going to drive them to hop across the road.
So a message which has been published in the last couple of days, please be careful when you're driving from sundown to sunrise. especially around Earlswood Lakes. If you find one crossing the road, if you can, pull over, help it onto the pavement in the direction it was travelling in originally, and hopefully it will find a little bit of love before the season has got too late for it.
And who doesn't want a little bit of love at the moment? Yeah, OK. Let's move on and tell you about, or rather remind you, about our 60-second soundscape before we go at the end of the show. Natural sounds from a place you know. And do you know Parkwood at Nutfield? We've been down there for...
with the Planet Reigate microphone and have recorded our 60-second soundscape that you'll be able to hear a little bit later on in the show. Plus, of course, we've got Planet Reigate stars this week and praise for those who found cash scattered on Reigate High Street. Can you believe it? It's a terrific story and one which hopefully will make you smile.
Maybe you were involved with that episode as well. And also a bit later on, we're going to be hearing from Steve Trigg, who is one of the people behind Red Start.
If you haven't heard of Red Start yet, you have just now, and you're going to be hearing much more about it in the future, because it's a new group formed by volunteers to bring more live music to the area, particularly with the current pandemic.
pause on what's happening at the harlequin and before the new unit is set up at the rise so let's hear a bit more about how the evening started off last weekend and i'll bring you our chat with steve a little bit later on in this week's episode of the planet reigate podcast hello redhill
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Chapter 5: What is Red Start and its impact on local music?
So the introduction there to the very first mall sessions, mall, mall, mall. But anyway, you may have wondered why there was mention of the Belfry at the start of that. Yeah, these live music sessions, those gigs, those three bands were playing at the stage in the Belfry. What's all that about? You heard a little bit from Steve Trigg there.
We're going to hear more from Steve a little bit later on in the show. Plus, of course, we've got our good time guide, Planet Rygate stars, 60 second soundscape and our occasional feature of Rygate Roulette.
Welcome to Rygate Roulette on the Planet Rygate podcast. My name is Roberta. I am the Rygate Roulette robot. I want to find out more about what you love about living here.
Okay, Marie Chauville, Red Hill.
Spin the wheel to play and I'll ask you a question. Where locally have you laughed loudest and longest?
That's probably when we were at a rehearsal and we heard some people singing outside and we're joining in the song that we were doing inside and then they were getting all the words wrong. So one of them came in and went, can you just tell us what the words are for this? And that was it. It just had us all in fits of giggles. So, yeah.
What is your guilty local pleasure?
So the all-you-can-eat Chinese locally. I'm regularly there and take many different people there. So they all know me in there. So on the main road, so down in Red Hill. But yeah, very good food. And yeah, my guilty pleasure.
What makes you smile when you come home from abroad?
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Chapter 6: What makes Redhill residents love their community?
When did you first come here?
OK, so I was born in London. Parents were in the army, so I went to boarding school locally. And I went when I was eight and have grown up here ever since. So I stayed after I finished school.
Which local shops do you rely on?
So we use actually the one across the road on the A23. Don't know its name, but it literally is across the road. We use that shop. So it's literally right on our doorstep. And then further up, we use the Londis further up the A23 Bright Road.
What and where is your local Wonderful Wildlife?
Okay, so we actually frequent quite a lot of the areas around here during lockdown, we found more places that are really local. So we use them as walks regularly. So there's one that you've got Oldswood Lakes, obviously, we've got the lovely cut through behind here, which is a circuit past a farm. I can't remember the name of the farm, but it goes through white bushes and all the way along.
So it's a big long path and you can either go over the railway bridge or come out further along. And then you've got around Earlswood Common as well and behind in Petridge Woods. So lovely places locally for us to walk. And yeah, you can go right the back through Rye Gate and things as well for that. So nice walks. And Bluebell Woods, they're pretty too.
Thanks for playing the Rygate roulette game. I loved your answers. I will be back next week but before I go here is one of my favorite robot jokes. What is a robot's favorite Mexican food? Silicon carny. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. You've been a great audience. I'm Roberta the Rygate roulette robot. Goodbye.
The Good Time Guide. Things to do and places to go on the Planet Reigate podcast.
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