green space

Bugs at home at the Burney 0
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 11th July 2023
Biodiversity officer Elliot Newton outlines the planet’s need for bug homes and insect and bird-friendly planting to counter the Earth’s mass extinction ecological crisis. He was speaking after the mayor, Cllr Diane White, officially opened the Burney Bug Hotel in Surbiton, at the Burney Triangle – the green space at the junction of Burney Avenue
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Progress report on Tolworth Court Farm Fields nature reserve 0
- Environment, News
- 4th October 2022
Hear more about the Wild Tolworth Project at a free event at Surbiton’s cornerHOUSE tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct 5). Citizen Zoo¸ the area’s rewilding group, believes Tolworth Court Farm Fields, a 50 hectare site opposite the new Lidl HQ in Tolworth, could be one of London’s greatest nature reserves. It wants to update local residents and
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Join Friends group and survey to improve Claremont Gardens 0
- Environment, News
- 18th August 2021
Neighbours of Claremont Gardens have launched a Friends group to improve the green space which they say has gone downhill. The duck pond, plant cover and state of the rockery are of particular concern according to Green councillor Sharron Sumner who lives next to the Surbiton park which is sandwiched between The Crescent and Claremont
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Mayor bashes balsam and opens boardwalk at Six Acre Meadow 0
- Environment, News
- 7th July 2021
Cllr Sushila Abraham gets stuck in with a spot of Himalayan Balsam bashing. The mayor of Kingston set to work tackling the invasive plant which has a stranglehold on Tolworth’s Six Acre Meadow which borders the Hogsmill River. She was joined by Kingston’s biodiversity officer Elliot Newton, also pictured, as well as Alexandra ward’s Cllr
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Share your views on Berrylands’ green spaces in online survey 0
- Environment, News
- 7th June 2021
How do you use the green spaces of Berrylands? What do you like about them and what improvements would you like to see? Or don’t you visit them at all and if so, why? The Friends of Berrylands Nature Reserve, which runs regular volunteer events to create and maintain wildlife habitats and our access to
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