Your Councillors

CLLR. CHRIS HUNT

ASHTEAD VILLAGE WARD

Chris Hunt has lived in Ashtead Village Ward since 1996 and works as a Chartered Surveyor. He was first elected to the Council in 2003.

Cllr Hunt represents the Council on the Local Authorities M25 Consortium. He regularly meets with Chris Grayling, Ashtead's MP, his County Councillor, and with MEPS as well as other District and County Councillors. Chris takes a keen interest in trying to improve Ashtead whilst preserving the character of the village and is particularly committed to consulting any residents over matters that may affect them.

Outside of the Council, Chris is a director running a firm of general practice chartered surveyors, which specialises in Compulsory Purchase and Compensation work, and he has given evidence to both the Lands Tribunal and the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal which has proved successful in his favour.

Chris is also a Church-appointed Foundation Governor at St. Giles (CoE) Aided Infants School in Ashtead.

On the domestic front, Chris is married to a former Dorking primary school teacher and they have three young children, two of whom attend Ashtead schools whilst their youngest is at the age of emptying cupboards and finding new uses for Council agendas!

CLLR. CHRIS REYNOLDS

ASHTEAD VILLAGE WARD

Chris was born in 1953 and has been married to Fiona since 1986. They have two children, Nicholas, born 1990, who attended Therfield before going to Staffordshire University and Flora born 1994 who attended The Greville in Ashtead before moving to Rosebery in Epsom.

Cllr Reynolds has known Ashtead all his life and has lived here 1997. He attended the City of London Freemen's School, leaving in 1970 and spent the first six years of his working life in Ashtead with a firm of solicitors. He has been involved in the advertising and exhibition industry for over 32 years.

Chris is President of the Old Freemen's Cricket Club (who are merged with Headley Cricket Club for Surrey Downs League Saturday fixtures), a Vice President of the Old Freemen's Association and has been an active member of the National Trust for a number of years. He has been a Trustee of Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall and was a school governor at St Peter's Catholic School in Leatherhead for a number of years. He is also a member of the MCC and has a wide range of spare time interests.

Chris is committed to preserving the village environment in Ashtead and to helping all residents whatever their political affiliation.