A new planning application for the Dairy Crest site on corner of Lower Marsh Lane and Villiers Avenue has been submitted to Kingston Council. This application is for 49 residential units comprising 17 x 1 bed, 12 x 2 bed, 18 x 3 bed and 2 x 4 bed, configured as a mix of houses, […]

This week, Liberal Democrat Leader, Councillor Liz Green, is making public a letter sent from Councillor Kevin Davis. Last week the Tory Chair of Development Control Committee, Councillor Richard Hudson, launched a campaign – Tolworth Deserves Better. By launching his own band wagon and jumping right on it he immediately ruled himself out of being […]

The Conservative administration of Kingston Council has refused to allow the controversial planning applications for the Tesco site by the old Toby Jug site on the A3 and Tolworth Tower being discussed by local residents at Surbiton and South of the Borough Neighbourhood Committees. Neighbourhoods were set up by Liberal Democrats 22 years ago to […]

This is the mock-up by the developers of the proposed Eden Walk redevelopment. The plans, which were shared at a series of public meetings last month, include new retail space, leisure facilities, opening up walkways through memorial gardens, new eating places, offices and around 400 new homes. Of course, what it doesn’t show is that […]

Surprisingly, the committee decision to decide the controversial Old Post Office site planning application has been cancelled. The news came in late yesterday that the applicant had asked the chair to withdraw their application from that committee so they could “consider their position”, the planning application itself has NOT been withdrawn.  This follows on from a […]

The controversial planning application for 83 flats with retail units at the old dairy crest site, on the corner of Villiers Avenue and Lower Marsh Lane, has been refused unanimously by Councillors at their meeting on 10th June. I’m delighted that all Councillors saw that this application was over-development and out of character with the […]

The first of the official considerations by Kingston Council of the Dairy Crest planning application, on the corner of Villiers Avenue and Lower Marsh Lane, took place on 20th May at the Surbiton Neighbourhood committee meeting. It was great to see so many residents coming to express their views on the proposed development. They raised […]

The planning application for flats on the former Dairy Crest Site on the corner of Lower Marsh Lane and Villiers Avenue has finally been submitted to Kingston Council. The brief description is “Demolition and redevelopment of the existing site. Erection of five residential blocks ranging up to five storeys in height. Comprising of 83 units, […]

The long running saga of the Tesco site, on the former Government land by Tolworth A3 roundabout has reached the next stage, with a planning application for residential units. Over a year ago they finally gave up on trying to get a superstore on the site, following a 10 year campaign by local Liberal Democrat […]

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 […]