Kingston Council

Become a friend of Surbiton’s famed art deco railway station 0
- Environment, News
- 16th January 2021
Would you like to be part of a Friends of Surbiton Station group to help enhance the building and improve the environment for railway passengers? Well, you could join an online group being set up by Kingston Council. The council is keen to unite those interested in preserving and enhancing the art deco-style railway station,
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Iconographic-style art show moves online in lockdown 0
- Arts, News
- 12th January 2021
Twilight, an exhibition by Surbiton fine art artist Anthony Maccini, can be viewed in an online video at the cornerHOUSE arts centre. The exhibition showing Anthony’s black and white oil-on-canvas paintings depicting symbolic ideas, places and people, had been scheduled to run at the Douglas Road arts centre until February 21 with a Meet the
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New interactive map launched to report fly-tipping in Surbiton 0
- Environment, News
- 7th January 2021
Reporting fly-tipping has just got easier. Kingston Council has launched an interactive map of the borough’s streets. Place the pin where rubbish has been dumped and then fill in a short form to give council staff more details. “Our rangers have noted an increase in fly-tipping since the start of the pandemic,” said Surbiton neighbourhood
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Write a short radio play for Surbiton arts centre 0
- Arts, News
- 27th December 2020
Stuck for something to do over the Christmas holidays and beyond now that we are in Tier 4 and staying in is the new going out? Then why not write a short radio play? All you need to record it is a mobile phone or laptop. It can just be a monologue or involve the
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Parking bay reserved for Santa 0
- News
- 24th December 2020
Residents of Browns Road, Surbiton, have made parking easy for Santa when he turns up in his sleigh. He needn’t park on the rooftops, he can just slide into a special Stop Here Santa bay reserved just for him. But he’ll need to remember to come after 2pm today (Christmas Eve) otherwise he’ll get a
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Roads become Advent calendars 0
- Arts, News
- 17th December 2020
Westfield Road in Surbiton is being turned into a picturesque Advent calendar. Each day leading up to Christmas Day itself a new window of a home is decorated in the river road (first two pics). “We have got 24 volunteers from the road to dress up their windows in the form of an eye-catching advent
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