Victoria Rec

Vibrant mural in Victoria Rec 0
- Arts, Environment, News
- 10th March 2023
Check out the new mural on the pavilion at Victoria Rec this weekend. Created by designers and illustrators Harriet Palmer and Sunnie Newby, it is part of a Surbiton Art Trail project to add interest and brighten up public spaces in the area. The design depicts things that the duo like most about the park
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Stormy weather 0
- Environment, News
- 18th May 2021
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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Big sky at night, viewer’s delight 0
- Environment, News
- 22nd February 2021
There was something almost apocalyptic about sunset over Victoria rec, where the big sky often creates drama.
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New battle over phone mast in Victoria Recreation Ground 0
- Environment, News
- 31st July 2020
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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Planners refuse phone mast in Surbiton’s Victoria Rec 0
- Environment, News
- 4th May 2020
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 1
- Environment, News
- 24th April 2020
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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