Rhubarb and custard. Farnham and traffic. Crest and Waverley Borough Council.

You may think the issues between the latter are fairly recent, given the Brightwells debacle.

But you would be wrong, for even back in 1980 the parties found themselves at loggerheads over naming two roads on a new estate in Badshot Lea.

Today’s residents of Glorney Mead probably have no idea how “insulted’ WBC were by the names suggested by Crest for two roads off Lower Weyborne Lane.

Magnolia Drive and Camellia Close – even though the latter is not present in the locality – were the seemingly trivial names put forward by the housebuilder.

But WBC felt the suggestions sounded like a “lot of fairies” while Cranleigh member Cllr Tony Young even called the suggestions “sick-making”.

The council’s ire was heightened as they preferred “quaint and homely names” like Glorneys and Crump Drive, as they’re associated with the history of Badshot Lea.

Village councillor, Roger Ford, claimed Crest’s suggestions summed up their attitude and mentality as Glorneys and Crump Drive were put forward after direct consultation with Badshot Lea.

He said: “It just goes to show the mentality of Crest Homes when they object to the historic and ancestral names and choose something like Weybourne Park, when it’s not even in Weybourne.”

Wrecclesham and Rowledge councillor Brigadier ‘Koko’ Weldon urged Crest to “take a running jump” with only a Godalming councillor preferring the flowery options.

Crest, meanwhile, objected to WBC’s suggestions in the strongest possible terms, calling their names “offensive and totally unacceptable”.

They said: “The estate is an attractive development and not some back alley as these names suggest.”

Eventually, WBC got their way, as the flowery proposals were trampled on and ‘Mead’ being added to Glorneys as a compromise. Sadly, the words “Richard Crump Drive” never made it to the signwriters department.