Kingston Council

The Man Shed: tools for wellbeing 0
- News
- 26th November 2024
Meet new friends and learn new skills at the Man Shed. Whether you already know your way around power tools or are a beginner when it comes to handling a screwdriver, the project, based in an impressively enhanced, well-equipped polytunnel in the grounds of the Fircroft Trust in Ditton Road, welcomes new members. Work on
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Fundraiser for film on grief 0
- Arts, News
- 8th November 2024
Actress Rea Mole is raising funds for a film about grief which is to be shot and screened at the cornerHOUSE arts centre in Surbiton where she performed as a child. Rea, who grew up in Ellerton Road and who went to Tolworth Girls’ School, has written Starlight, a short film which explores grief through finding
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Poster girl champions plastic solution 0
- Environment, News
- 30th October 2024
She’s the poster girl for Surbiton’s waste-not, want-not community. And now she is literally that – a poster girl! Sage Parmar, the driving force behind Sage’s health store – the organic, sustainable grocery shop in Brighton Road which champions zero waste – is the face of a What’s Your Plastic Solution? campaign. You can see
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View waste as a resource says Kingston’s green business group 0
- Environment, News
- 30th November 2023
Where there’s muck there’s brass was the takeaway message from a discussion on the circular economy by members of the Kingston Green Business Community. Two panels of local entrepreneurs and innovators from the world of fashion, construction, food and the information and communications technology sectors were quizzed by David Symons of environmental consulting company WSP
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50ft mast bid for Burney Triangle 0
- Environment, News
- 3rd September 2023
Funny how proposals to install new mobile phone masts are made during school holidays when many residents are away, isn’t it? The bid to build a 50ft (15m) 5G telecoms mast and additional cabinets in Ferguson Avenue by the Burney Triangle – an area of green space with a stunning new bug hotel and flower beds – was
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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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