Why work for Guildford

Guildford Borough Council are recognised as having an excellent record of delivering high quality public services. For example, working with their residents, they are now recycling 60% of their waste – amongst the best performing areas in the country. The outstanding parks and open spaces are widely praised, with eight having received the prestigious national Green Flag award.

On a daily basis, their staff provide essential services to some of the frailest and most vulnerable residents. They deliver meals, provide transport and offer places to meet for otherwise isolated and perhaps lonely older people. They improve lives through their family support programme, help people in desperate need find adequate homes and do all they can to prevent homelessness.

They believe that every person matters and the continued provision of excellent, day-to-day public services remains at the heart of everything they do for people who live, work and study in the borough.

But they have a wider responsibility to their residents to help provide the jobs, homes and environment that improve their lives and prospects. They need to provide affordable homes, including for essential and lower paid workers. Improvements to the A3 and the local road network, increased rail capacity and new stations, better bus services and cycle and walking networks are all essential.

Their place-making plans will ensure that development is directed to the right places and is supported by the required infrastructure and community facilities. They will deliver high quality design, renewal and regeneration of our urban and rural built environments, whilst protecting the special natural landscapes and heritage.

Retaining a healthy, competitive local economy will also be vital to the future wellbeing of residents. They will encourage sustainable and proportionate economic growth to provide the jobs that local people need. By being a leader in innovation and promoting Guildford’s high value clusters, they will focus on the creation of employment opportunities in knowledge-based and high-growth industries.

Underpinning everything though is community. As well as continuing to provide the services that people rely on, they will work with residents to help them bring local solutions to local issues. In particular, they will concentrate on the needs of the elderly and less advantaged.

We also want to ensure that the success of our borough and local economy is shared by all those living, working and studying here.