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Wood you make a tree warden?0
- Environment
- 4th December 2019
Could you help look after the trees in your street? Residents and community groups interested in getting more involved in the planting and/or maintenance of trees are being encouraged to join Kingston Council’s new tree warden programme. Those who sign up will play an active role in conserving and enhancing trees in their area, helping
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Pocket Park takes shape 0
- Environment
- 4th December 2019
The Queen’s Prom Friends’ pocket park is taking shape, helped by volunteers at goodgym, Nandos and AstraZeneca. Since April, a site has been cleared with a raised bed and wheelchair-friendly path (pictured). Victorian heritage has been reinstated, plants deadheaded, weeds and litter picked. Next task: to find local firms to sponsor this thriving community project.
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It’s good to get grubby!0
- Environment
- 4th December 2019
Improve your local environment and help nurture wildlife at one of Berrylands Nature Reserve’s community volunteer days. Recent sessions uncovered a lost path, haloed a magnificent oak tree, improved drainage (efforts continuing), cleared brambles and historic litter, and thinned blackthorn, using it to create a shelter for birds and small mammals and a habitat for
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On a hiding to £3,000: Citizen Zoo’s bold project 0
- Environment
- 4th December 2019
Citizen Zoo has been given a £3,000 Surbiton neighbourhood community grant to construct a nature watching hide at Tolworth Court Farm’s Moated Manor site. Thirty Kingston University architecture masters students, supervised by architects Takeshi Hayatsu and Jim Reed, will work on the project. They have already completed a site visit and are working on drawings.
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Why more flats when rehab is needed?0
- News
- 4th December 2019
Plans to demolish an NHS building in Surbiton to replace it with nearly 60 homes could harm residents’ long-term health. That was one response to a consultation on the future of 187 Ewell Road – the red-brick former primary care trust office and stores. Bob Phillips argues the site is ideal for rehab beds, which
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Season’s greetings: ’tis germy time 0
- Opinion
- 1st December 2019
Take cover and batten down the hatches, for ’tis the season to be germy. We’re nostril deep in the perilous certainty that ‘there’s definitely something nasty going round’, and if you haven’t yet spent a week snotting into your sleeve and binge-eating Strepsils, you’re either dead or bionic. If it’s the latter, keep it quiet
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