A WALK to Haslemere town well could receive a facelift in the future.

It is on a list of projects Haslemere Town Council would like to achieve up until spring 2019 - when the council ends its term of office.

The town council meeting at the end of September was given a list of targets the strategy working group had drawn up from a set councillors had agreed in April.

Some of the projects were already underway, including the upgraded Lion Green playground due to be installed by this month with Tesco donating £12,000 towards the £30,000 total.

Better communications with residents had also started, with a new town council website in 2015, one-to-one ward surgeries and neighbourhood ‘meet the mayor and councillors’ sessions.

Councillors had also establishing a working liaison with the local National Trust and the setting up of a charity, The Haslemere Penny Ha’penny Trust, to give financial help to community initiatives which the council is unable to fund.

The idea came from deputy mayor Malcolm Carter and has been registered with the Charity Commission.

The meeting heard the council was keeping an eye on the progress and standards of the new station car park now being built, and would seek to “continue, and improve, the present dialogue with South West Trains”.

The completed work will continue a campaign on behalf of residents and commuters for more space “to meet the ongoing needs of residents and commuters”.

For the future it wants to get Surrey County Council to respond to problems in the town with more urgency.

Issues with funding the town’s youth work this year were highlighted as an example, with the town council having to step in to pay for a youth worker at the Wey Centre.

Surrey had also removed the refuse disposal dustcart previously supplied at Wey Hill. Haslemere was one of the few places in Surrey where ‘the tip’ was removed against the residents’ wishes.

A project to restore the town well off Well Lane was progressing in liaison with Haslemere Museum and the National Trust.

It aims to see a ‘tidying-up’ of the walk behind the High Street flanking Swan Barn as well as the approach to the well, which runs alongside the Citizens’ Advice Bureau. It might also be possible to connect it to a walk within or adjacent to the museum grounds.

The occasional ‘well- dressing’ ceremony could also be developed as a regular tourist attraction.