Archive for Month: July 2019

The annual Prudential RideLondon event returns this weekend with multiple road closures across Kingston, including several of our local roads.  Central Kingston roads will be closed, including Kingston Bridge and Portsmouth Road. Of our local Coombe Hill Ward Roads, the following road closures are planned: London Road Kingston Hill (from Kingston) up until Galsworthy Road…

London Square put on a public exhibition of their latest plans for the Kingston Riding Centre site (off Crescent Road) on Friday afternoon. They are proposing 52 new homes in two  four-storey blocks, made up of 16 1-bed and 36 2-bed flats. Each of the flats will have an internal balcony, with some shared amenity…

Advanced Living recently held a second public exhibition which showed updated images and information relating to their proposals for the site in Coombe Road. All of the exhibition boards can be seen on their website – www.coomberoadseniorliving.com You can also send your comments through the website. The developers have requested comments by 2nd August 2019.…

We are extremely concerned about the way that the consultation for a new Kingston upon Thames Local Plan is being handled by LibDem-run Kingston Council. The poor quality consultation risks producing a Local Plan that doesn’t reflect the views and priorities of local residents and will not provide adequate protection against future unsuitable development. The…

London Square are putting on a public exhibition of their proposals to redevelop the land at the Kingston Riding Centre, located off Crescent Road.  The exhibition of the proposals will be held at the Kingston Lodge Hotel (94 Kingston Hill) on Friday 19th July between 3:30pm and 8pm. A leaflet is being delivered to the…

Kingston Council is working with Veolia to implement their policy of requiring residents to present their waste and recycling containers at the front boundary of their properties – unless specific other arrangements have been agreed. The new Council policy is that containers not presented close the boundary will not be collected. Where this is the…

Secret plans for a new ‘Kingston Car Tax’ were revealed at a Council meeting on Tuesday 25th June 2019.  At the meeting it emerged that both Emissions-based Parking Charges and Congestion Zones were under consideration by the LibDem-run Council. At the meeting it was stated that the plans, which have not been consulted on, would…

A crisis in Kingston Council’s planning department is giving poor service to local residents and risks developers taking advantage to force unsuitable development onto the borough. Kingston’s Conservative councillors have discovered the crisis following the release of information by council officers. Cuts to planning services are having a dramatic negative impact with reports that the…

Advanced Living have recently held two public exhibition sessions to share their plans to develop senior living housing on Coombe Road. The proposed new housing includes a wellness centre and restaurant, both of which will be open to the public. The existing, hospital buildings (to the rear of Wolverton Avenue) will be replaced with a new…