Kingston Council has received £636,000 of the Mayor of London’s Outer London Fund.  In the first year of the scheme £10million has targeted high streets in outer London.   The Kingston bid for Round One funding under the scheme included four proposals to bring benefits to a high street in each of our Neighbourhoods. This award […]

Kingston Council is advising residents about a telephone scam that is currently being attempted in the Royal Borough of Kingston.  The Council has heard from a number of residents who have been contacted by telephone by someone claiming to be ringing from ‘The Council Tax department’ or from a company saying that the customer can […]

At a time, when the depth and severity of the government cuts are biting hard into everyone’s budgets, residents will be pleased to know that the Liberal Democrat Administration delivered a final year-end budget with a £71k under spend. Last autumn, in the first round of budget cuts the government cut the Council’s budget by […]

Liberal Democrat councillors in Kingston have agreed a council budget that protects local services and freezes the level of Council tax. But to do this they have had to find some £30 million of cuts over the next four years.  These include £420,000 less on senior staff, £100,000 cut for the Rose Theatre and by […]

At the election, the Lib Dems promised a tax break for people on low and middle incomes by increasing people’s personal tax allowance.  This is the amount anyone can earn before the they start paying tax. Thanks to the Lib Dems this April, tax allowances have gone up by £1000 to £7475 – meaning nearly […]