There will be two Council by-elections on May 7th, the same day as the General Election. Following the resignation of long serving Councillor Vicki Harris, Tom Davies will be standing in Tolworth & Hook Rise ward. In Grove ward, Rebekah Moll will be hoping to replace Councillor Stephen Brister who has also resigned.

David Berry, who was the Liberal Democrat Councillor for Alexandra Ward in Surbiton/Tolworth from 2002-2010, sadly passed away this week after a long battle against cancer.  David was also Mayor of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 2008/09. I worked closely with David when we co-chaired the Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee together. He was […]

Kingston Council’s Infrastructure, Projects and Contracts Committee meet on Thursday 5th February to consider the Eden Quarter Development Brief. The draft brief included the Council’s proposals: * to pave over part of the Fairfield in order to move the Monday Market there, * to remove the tumbling phone boxes from Old London Rd * to identify […]

Lib Dem councillors Stephen Brister and Chrissie Hitchcock, alongside MP for Kingston and Surbiton Ed Davey, have launched a campaign to block the Tory Council’s proposals to get rid of Kingston’s iconic tumbling phone boxes at the junction of Old London Rd and Clarence St. The phone boxes artwork called “Out of Order”, which feature […]

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 […]

Kingston Liberal Democrats are pleased to announce that Annette Wookey will be our candidate in the by-election in St James Ward on 18th December. Local campaigner Annette, has lived in New Malden for over 20 years and was one of the candidates at the last local elections in May. Strangely, some St Mark’s Ward residents will probably […]

There was a high swing from the Conservatives to Liberal Democrats in the by-election in Tudor ward on Thursday 16th October. The Conservatives managed to hang on to the seat that they have held for 24 years, but their majority plummeted from only 5 months ago 916 to 337. Our team of volunteers is very […]

Edward Davey, MP for Surbiton has been working for the last few years on rezoning Surbiton Station from zone 6 to 5.  He’s on the final leg with only George Osbourne to persuade!  He’s set up a new petition aimed directly at the Chancellor at www.edwarddavey.org.UK/rezoning

Due to ill health, Frank Thompson has resigned as councillor for Tudor Ward in north Kingston. We are delighted that Marilyn Manson will be the Liberal Democrat candidate at the by-election on 16th October 2014.  Marilyn has been campaigning for improvements to north Kingston for many years.  She is an active member of the local […]