Kingstonian fans have started a petition to keep the club in Kingston Borough. Kingston Council owns the freehold of the Kingsmeadow site where the K’s currently ground share with AFC Wimbledon.  However, AFC are planning to build a new stadium and move back to Merton Borough.  They are selling the lease to Chelsea for their women’s […]

St Mark’s Ward Liberal Democrat Councillors have written a detailed letter to Kingston Council’s planning department  giving its reasons for objecting to the planning application by Hydro Properties Ltd for 64 floating homes, a 94 berth marina, residential moorings, a restaurant and car park on the site known as the Filter Beds on Portsmouth Road, […]

The Thames Landscape Strategy Partnership has published its draft review of the Thames Landscape Strategy (Kew – Hampton – Weybridge) and is inviting everyone to have their say until 31st August 2012. The Thames Landscape Strategy (written by Kim Wilkie and published in 1994) seeks to protect and enhance the landscape of the Thames and […]

The last two days have been a great opportunity to feel involved with the Olympics, watching the mens and women’s road cycle races coming through the town centre then catching the end on the enormous screen in the Rose Theatre.  We stood opposite the tumbling red phone boxes and caught them coming the wrong way […]

The historic statue of Queen Anne which stands over the Market House in Kingston’s Ancient Market Place has recently been regilded following 18 years of wear since it was conserved in 1994. This statue regilding has always been part of a wider works programme to renovate the Market House and, as scaffolding was installed recently […]

On Tuesday 24th July at approximately 8.45am the Olympic Torch will turn into Victoria Road to come through Surbiton town centre on day 67 of the 70 day tour of the UK.  It will travel up Victoria Road and then turn right into Claremont Road, then straight over Maple Road onto Surbiton Crescent.  In total […]

The official route for the Olympic Torch coming through the Royal Borough of Kingston area has been announced.  The Torch will start its journey at 8.22am on Tuesday 24th July at the Hook Centre, Chessington. It will travel down the Hook Road (A243) and Upper Brighton Road before turning right into Victoria Road (Surbiton town centre). It […]