What are your views on the street recycling pods in Surbiton? Do you use them when out and about? do you live in a flat without a recycling service? Where would you like to see them placed? asks Liz, Yogan and Diane – St Mark’s Ward Councillors Following on from budget Council last February, most […]

Surbiton Wildlife Group were Surbiton Farmer Market charity of the month in April. The new volunteer group has the aim of improving Surbiton’s open spaces starting with Claremont Gardens. The group are on Facebook and Twitter. Vote for them to receive £10,000 from the Aviva Community fund.

After an initial litter pick in Claremont Gardens at the start of the year and an inaugural meeting last month attended by over 50 residents last month, the Surbiton Wildlife Group is really getting going. At a smaller meeting earlier this month, residents agreed a management committee and set up a constitution, so they can start applying for […]

In January this year, Kingston Council launched a consultation on improvements to the cycle facility on Portsmouth Road from Brighton Road junction in Surbiton to the High Street in Kingston. This is the first of the mini-Holland projects.  The borough received over £30m funding guarantee from the Mayor of London in March 2014 to transform […]

A local resident is setting up a new community group – Surbiton Wildlife – with the aim of improving Claremont Gardens with bird boxes, litter picks, bee and wildlife friendly plants and improved pond. It wants to make the open space better for people and wildlife. Their first event is on 17th March 2015 at 6.30pm […]

Kingston Council has announced plans for the first of the mini-hollands projects.  Mini-holland is the name given to the improvements to the cycle infrastructure using £32m given by Mayor for London, Boris Johnson, to transform our cycling network and encourage more people to use bikes instead of cars. This first scheme incorporates the whole of […]

At the Full Council meeting on 15th January all Liberal Democrats supported a motion to retain weekly recycling. The motion is reproduced in full below, it asks for more time to investigate further options enabling the required savings to be made whilst keeping weekly recycling.  However, Conservative Councillor Richard Hudson moved an amendment that dismissed […]

The Conservatives in control of Kingston Council have plans to remove weekly recycling (except food waste).  At the Finance and Policy committee, they persisted in this folly which would see paper, card, plastics, glass and cans collected fortnightly. I was surprised that all the Tory and Labour Councillors on the committee voted for it.  There […]

Conservatives in Kingston are introducing, without consultation, a new more complicated recycling system next year. All recyclables (except food) will be collected fortnightly in a mixture of new bins and green boxes. Landfill waste will continue to be collected fortnightly. If you want to keep weekly recycling of all materials please sign our petition. Material Currently […]

Surbiton station remodeling was included in Kingston Council’s bid for the Mayor of London’s mini-holland bid.  Kingston was one of the 3 successful boroughs and will receive up to £30million over the coming years to improve facilities for cyclists across the borough. There has been some discussion in the local paper regarding the proposal for […]