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  • Volunteers rally at Victoria rec for community clear-up day

    Volunteers rally at Victoria rec for community clear-up day0

    This was the bountiful haul when volunteers cleared the dense undergrowth around the tennis courts in Victoria recreation ground; 50 lost balls (some slightly chewed). The community rallied to spruce up Victoria rec, trim unruly foliage, pick up litter and dramatically improve the Victoria Avenue entrance’s flowerbeds. Twenty five volunteers from the Friends group used

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  • New battle over phone mast in Victoria Recreation Ground

    New battle over phone mast in Victoria Recreation Ground0

    EE is appealing against Kingston Council’s decision to refuse its bid to build an 82ft (25m) mobile telephone mast in Victoria Rec. The plan to build the mast (the size of two double decker buses standing on end), a large compound around it, and associated paraphernalia in the Surbiton park off Balaclava Road, was thrown

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  • 02 applies to build phone mast on Green Belt at cricket ground

    02 applies to build phone mast on Green Belt at cricket ground0

    It seems to be a war of attrition between mobile phone companies wanting to build telephone masts and the residents whose communities will be affected by them. The latest application on The Good Life’s radar is a bid by Telefonica/02 to build a 69ft (21m) mast at Long Ditton Cricket Club. This follows attempts by

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  • Residents object to phone mast on village green

    Residents object to phone mast on village green0

    A proposal to build a 49ft mobile telephone mast on the village green opposite a junior school has brought a deluge of objections from Long Ditton residents. So far 165 objections to the proposal to build the 15 metre EE mast on the green space opposite Long Ditton St Mary’s Junior School and near to

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  • Planners refuse phone mast in Surbiton’s Victoria Rec

    Planners refuse phone mast in Surbiton’s Victoria Rec0

    Plans by telecoms giant EE to site an 82ft (25m) mobile phone mast in a fenced-off area of Victoria recreation ground have been refused by the council after a tidal wave of complaints. More than 250 objections were sent to Kingston Council’s planning department after the proposal was lodged days after lockdown began, with no

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  • A blot on the landscape

    A blot on the landscape1

    A massive 82ft (25 metres) mobile telephone mast – the size of two double decker buses standing on end  – could be erected in the much-loved Victoria Rec if Kingston Council gives the plan the go-ahead. The mast, for the benefit of passengers on the trains which use the railway line which runs on the

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