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  • Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block

    Plan to demolish Victorian care home and build six-storey block0

    Developers want to bulldoze a two-storey care home in Adelaide Road, Surbiton, and build a six-storey, 60-bed building in its place. Willow Grange Care Home, which offers respite, nursing and dementia care at its base at 1-3 Adelaide Road near the junction with St Mark’s Hill, wants to replace its existing Victorian building (below) built

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  • Live music and tasty treats launch three-mile scenic walk

    Live music and tasty treats launch three-mile scenic walk0

    Join the launch of a three-mile scenic walk from Tolworth to Chessington this Bank Holiday Monday (31st). From 11am to 4pm the Community Brain will be at the Baking Ideas hub next to Tolworth railway station, giving out information about the scenic route which is part of an ongoing wayfinding project with the 121 Collective.

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  • Three tower project for Tolworth Broadway is refused by planners

    Three tower project for Tolworth Broadway is refused by planners0

    Plans to add two more high-rise blocks to Tolworth Broadway and build 499 new homes in a scheme which also involved turning the existing Tolworth Tower into flats have hit the buffers as Kingston council threw out the proposal, pictured, by developers Meadow Partners. Ten reasons were cited by planners as to why the application

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  • Learn scything techniques at Fishponds Park this Saturday

    Learn scything techniques at Fishponds Park this Saturday0

    Learn various scything techniques to help manage the meadow at Surbiton’s Fishponds Park. Kingston’s biodiversity officer Elliot Newton will be leading an introduction to scything at the park off Hollyfield Road from 10am on Saturday (22nd). This traditional way of cutting grass and managing hay meadows, minimises the impact on wildlife. Volunteers can also help

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  • Stormy weather

    Stormy weather0

    Dramatic stormclouds over Victoria recreation ground in Surbiton suggest that after a dry April we’re about to get a drenching in May. There’s the ghost of a rainbow detectable in the distance… its end seemingly landing near St Mark’s church! It’s rare to see clouds quite so dark and threatening – Surbiton usually seems to

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  • Grass in nature reserve is cut using scythes to manage meadow

    Grass in nature reserve is cut using scythes to manage meadow0

    Scythers set to at Tolworth Court Farm Moated Manor, a nature reserve off Old Kingston Road. Twelve volunteers were given lessons in scything techniques and then worked their way across the 2.4 acre site, skirting around the yellow meadow ant hills which would have been destroyed if heavy machinery was used to mow the grass,

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