Since 2003, the Council has had to develop an Air Quality Action Plan (AQAP) setting out the measures it intends to put in place in pursuit of National Air Quality Objectives. In several locations in the borough primarily close to busy roads, the Council is exceeding safe limits set in the National Air Quality Objectives […]

Today I have had my new blue lidded wheelie bin delivered. I am fortunate that we have space at the side of our house to store it. We know that many do not have space. I’ve sorted my week’s recycling into the new categories. As the pictures show 2 nearly full green boxes with plastics, […]

Kingston Council launched a consultation on their proposed air quality action plan in late 2015, but local Liberal Democrats say that the plan is not ambitious enough. Despite the pressing need to improve air quality in the borough, the action plan is very weak. It aims to ‘prevent, wherever possible, a deterioration in the levels of […]

After several consultations and more than a year, work on the new cycle lanes for Portsmouth Road from Surbiton to Kingston is due to start this month. Kingston Council was one of 3 London Boroughs to win millions of funding from London Mayor, Boris Johnson, for mini-Holland projects to dramatically improve cycling infrastructure in the borough.  […]

This article was first published in The Guardian. In the past three months, for the first time in our history, Britain produced more electricity from renewable sources than it did from coal. Between 2010 and 2015, Britain’s renewable power capacity trebled, with over £40bn invested into onshore and offshore wind farms, solar PV and biomass. […]

Kingston Council’s Surbiton Neighbourhood will be holding an open community forum on ‘smarter streets’ on Tuesday 10th November. The event, at Dysart School starting at 7.30pm, will be interactive, asking residents to discuss themes such as 20mph limits, air quality, parking, cycling and walking and street clutter. As local Councillors, we value residents and visitors […]

What is the Greater London National Park City initiative? Over the last 18 months, a movement has been growing, drawing together Londoners who want to make our city greener, healthier, fairer and even more beautiful. Who’s involved? All kinds of people – cyclists, scientists, tree climbers, teachers, students, pensioners, unemployed, under-employed, doctors, swimmers, gardeners, artists, […]

Kingston Council has introduced new fines for littering and dog fouling. The trial runs until December this year in Kingston Town Centre, North Kingston and Surbiton. Residents and visitors who fall foul will get an on the spot fines of £80 for littering and £100 for not cleaning up after your dog. We all know […]

Surbiton Wildlife Group is community-spirited and open to everybody who gets excited by the natural world around them.   Surbiton Wildlife Group are organising a community clean-up of Claremont Gardens in the centre of town. Activities will involve litter picking, pruning, weeding, mulch spreading and socialising! They need as many people to help as possible, so please go […]

Collections of batteries from door steps across the borough were put under threat earlier this year by the Conservative Administration when they agreed to stop weekly recycling collections and introduce fortnightly collections. Now thanks to environmental pressure from the Liberal Democrat Group, it looks like doorstep collections of batteries will be saved. Batteries should always […]