Surrey-Panorama.
4 candidates, one seat.

The Surrey School District names the Kwantlen, Katzie and Semiahmoo Nations as the Nations on whose traditional and unceded territories it works. The Katzie First Nation says on its website that the Katzie have lived in their territory for thousands of years, and that the places now called Surrey, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Langley and Delta each carry ancient Katzie names. Semiahmoo First Nation says its people have lived across Washington state, the Salish Sea and the Lower Mainland for thousands of years, and that its members in Canada live on the Semiahmoo Reserve in South Surrey. Its website uses the name Semiahma for its people.

The City of Surrey's history page says the Campbell, Nicomekl and Serpentine Rivers were the inland routes that people used for trading and communication. It says the land was covered with forest of fir, cedar and hemlock, and that 200 newcomers were recorded in Surrey by 1880. Logging began, land was cleared and small farming communities grew. The City says Surrey was incorporated as a municipality in 1879 and became a city in September 1993.

The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Sullivan, in the City of Surrey, was first known as Johnston's Settlement, after James Johnston, who arrived in 1866. It says Thomas and Henry Sullivan came in the early 1900s, farmed and logged, opened a store and post office, and built shingle and lumber mills that employed 125 people. The same entry says Sullivan was a station on the interurban line of the BC Electric Railway Company. The City of Surrey's Newton page calls Sullivan a historic village and places it, with the Panorama neighbourhood, in the Newton community.

The Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society, a group of volunteers, wrote in its 2004 newsletter that Sullivan logging crews built the BC Electric right of way from Newton to Cloverdale in 1909. It quotes a 1971 thesis, The History of Surrey, for the statement that the crossing of Johnston Road and Bose Road, now 64 Avenue, became Sullivan Station, and that the next station to the west was Hyland. The newsletter adds that the company built a spur into the gravel pit at Sullivan and used it for the life of its electric operation. The society's website dates the original Sullivan Station to 1909.

The society's history page says the BC Electric Railway completed its Fraser Valley line in 1910 and began passenger service on October 3, 1910. The City of Surrey describes the line as built in 1910 for passenger rail service in the Lower Fraser Valley. The newsletter says the station gave the district a link east to Cloverdale and into the markets of New Westminster and Vancouver, and that lumber and shingles from the Sullivan mills travelled on the line. It says Hyland Station was demolished in 1945 and replaced by two stations, Burkhart to the west and Archibald to the east.

According to the newsletter, passenger service on the Surrey part of the line ended on September 30, 1950. The City's 2011 report says Southern Rail of BC now runs only freight trains on the former interurban line. The newsletter says Sullivan Station stayed on its site until late 1968, when it was moved a quarter mile east to a farm on 156th Street. By 2004 it was a wooden building of 10 feet by 12 feet that had spent 35 years as a chicken coop and tool shed. The society returned it to Sullivan in September 2003, to the yard of its car barn.

Sullivan Community Hall, at 6306 152 Street, was built in 1932. The City's heritage register describes it as a rustic hall in the Utilitarian Homestead style. The register says it was built over several years entirely from volunteer labour and donations, and that it was a focus of early May Day festivals until the late 1940s. The City registered the hall on November 2, 1998, and protects it under Heritage Revitalization Agreement By-law, 2010, No. 17275.

Sullivan Elementary School stands at 6016 152 Street. The society's newsletter says the school was formerly called Johnston Road School, and that Sullivan Park lies around it. The City describes Sullivan Park, at 6272 152 Street, as a large community park of 18.5 hectares at the eastern edge of Newton, with softball diamonds, multi-purpose fields, tennis courts, pickleball courts and walking loops. It says parking is available from 152 Street just south of the train tracks or from 62A Avenue. Elections BC lists Sullivan Elementary as a 2024 voting place in the district.

The Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society says a study between 1996 and 2000 looked at reopening the old BC Electric line for passenger trains. Surrey Council then asked for a not-for-profit group to bring original interurban cars back, and the society was formed in 2001. The City's January 2011 report says that since 2003 the City had given the society $575,000 for the refurbishment of car BCER 1225 and the building of the Sullivan car barn, and that it paid an annual grant of $24,600 for the use of City land at Sullivan.

On January 10, 2011 Council received a staff report that recommended a new car barn in Cloverdale and listed the return of the Sullivan Park site to other community uses as one benefit. The society says it used the Sullivan car barn for a decade to restore car 1225, after which the City moved the society to Cloverdale. The City now uses the barn to store parks equipment. The society also says that in 2020 the City unanimously approved planning to activate Sullivan Station. Its Sullivan Excursion runs from Cloverdale Station to Sullivan Park and back on Sundays during the season, and the society's page said it was closed for 2026.

The City says most of West Newton was built out gradually over the 20th century, while its central part stayed as large suburban lots and forest until recently. In 1993 Council identified West Newton as an area suited to development. It approved the West Newton South plan in July 1995 and the West Newton North plan in July 1996, which extended development north to 68 Avenue. In July 2004 it approved a third plan for the north side of Highway 10. The City lists J.T. Brown and Panorama Park Elementary Schools, Tamanawis Secondary, and Tamanawis and West Newton Community Parks among the places these plans cover. West Newton Community Park was completed in 2014 and has a regulation cricket pitch.

The City says South Newton is a large neighbourhood in the southeast of Newton, with a plan area of 485 hectares. Planning began in 1996. Council gave approval in principle in March 1997 and approved the plan in May 1999. In December 2004 it approved an amendment that added a single family flex designation for small lots. The City names two commercial centres, Panorama Heights at 152 Street and Highway 10 and Sullivan Heights at 64 Avenue and 144 Street, and says the area holds the headwaters of Archibald Creek, Sullivan Heights Creek and several tributaries of Hyland Creek. On December 2, 2024 Council updated its land use designations. The City introduced Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 21900 on February 23, 2026, and its pages say the Surrey 2050 plan update rescinded the South Newton and West Newton South plans.

Council began planning for the Newton-King George Boulevard Plan in October 2019, amended the plan area in October 2020, and approved the plan on March 6, 2023. The area is 167 hectares between Highway 10 and 68 Avenue, centred on the western side of King George Boulevard, and the plan sets a framework for the next 15 to 30 years. The 2021 census shows how much of the district's housing is recent. Of its homes, 1.3% were built in 1960 or earlier, 18.5% from 1991 to 2000, 14.5% from 2001 to 2005, 17.7% from 2006 to 2010, 18.8% from 2011 to 2015 and 13.4% from 2016 to 2021.

A school and a park are also being expanded. The Province's page, last updated on August 24, 2026, gives the status of the Tamanawis Secondary expansion as construction. It will add 575 spaces in 23 new classrooms and a neighbourhood learning centre, at an estimated project value of $56.5 million, with occupancy in spring 2028. The City says a third field hockey pitch was added to Tamanawis Park in May 2026.