Sarah Olney MP has also reported in her latest weekly newsletter that St George’s, the company behind the proposed Kew Retail Park, has decided to maintain it as retail space “for the foreseeable future”. This means that no plans are in place for a major development of the site.

This may have implications for the Stag Brewery Development. When St. George’s announced its ‘vision’ in 2022 the plan was for 1200 residential units. Richmond Council based part of its calculations of the need for a 1200 pupil secondary school in Mortlake on expected pupils in Kew.

Many already thought that those calculations were exaggerated, but this news would appear to put an additional dent in the Council plans. What will they now be saying to the Department for Education for the purposes of its review of the central government funding of free school projects?