Margaret Cooksey has served for 27 years as a member of the Council and is well known as an active, energetic and highly effective representative of the Dorking community.

Between 2019 and 2025, she was Cabinet member with responsibility for Planning, steering the new Local Plan through all of its stages, culminating in a proposal to remove all green-belt sites from the Plan.

Professionally she worked as a Senior University Lecturer in Nursing, before retiring in 2014 and has since been a full-time Mole Valley Councillor.

She works with a wide range of local residents and organisations to protect and enhance our community and has an impressive record of achievements for the town through hard and sustained work for local people.

Margaret's community involvement includes chairing both the Dorking Forum and Dorking Town-Twinning Committee, being a committee member of the Friends of Dorking Hospital and a Council trustee of Dorking Charities.