This application for premises at 160 Upper Richmond Road West looks to be an unusual application for East Sheen. Basically it looks to be for a fast food outlet opening until 3am Monday to Thursday and 4am Friday to Sunday.

The application has already generated a lot of concern locally. As it is a licensing application it will be decided by Wandsworth Council, as part of the tripartite authority for Wandsworth, Richmond and Merton.

Note that representations must be made by 22 October 2025.

Upcoming Events

Bernard Adams | Winter Recital Series

Christchurch East Sheen
London

Fri 7 Nov 2025, 7:00PM

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Thomas Coxhead | Winter Recital Series

Christchurch East Sheen
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Fri 14 Nov 2025,
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Basil Alter | Winter Recital Series

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Fri 21 Nov 2025,
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The Brubeck Experience | Winter Recital Series

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Fri 28 Nov 2025, 7:00PM

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The Pensford Field Environmental Trust Ltd has with regret decided to wind up following the premature termination of its lease of property in Kew by the Council on 29 September 2025.

Their announcement states:

“We have already distributed our physical assets to various environmental and local charities and the cash we have left over (once we have paid our debts), will be allocated between four charities:

• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for its project: Planting for the Future: Kew’s Landscape Succession Plan
• Habitats and Heritage for community volunteering days on Kew Road Ha-ha
• Barnes Common towards a role encouraging Lifelong Learning
• Holly Lodge for a raised bed in their kitchen garden in Richmond Park.

The last two organisations have strong links with schools in Kew which we hope they will develop.

As many of you know, we investigated seeking a judicial review of the Council’s decisions and had reasonable prospects of success. After weeks of refusing to disclose documents to help us assess our chances of success, the Council finally produced them, but we are not permitted to share them with you. The Council has unlimited resources, and we would have needed tens of thousands to keep going so, we reluctantly decided to call it a day.

The deadline for requesting a judicial review has now passed and we handed back the keys to the studio on Monday 29 September – with heavy hearts but heads held high as the field looks wonderful and has won awards this year from London in Bloom and Green Flag.

We will never know why the Council did not consult properly before doing any of this. We will never know why the Leader of the Council did not meet us before triggering the termination of our lease to see if there was scope for compromise.. We will never know why the Council did not check statements provided by Dose of Nature which we regard as misleading.

It is true to say we would not have compromised over the construction of shelters in the field (although there would have been scope on other issues). Several requests were made to us by Dose of Nature for very large shelters. In the future, planning permission will be needed but we understand there is some support for shelters from senior officials in the Council so this remains a risk.

What we do know is that in order to bulldoze this through, the Council committed a truckload of procedural irregularities, one of which is described in the video from independent film maker, Martin Baker – Battle for Pensford Field (Part 7).

[and see previous coverage here on 8 August 2025 https://childlawobserver10.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=3329&action=edit ]

For a third of a century, the community has kept this field predominantly for wildlife and we are handing over the baton to all of you to make sure that this remains the case for the next third of a century. Please keep using the field as it should remain open to the public and, if anything is wrong, then report it to the Council. This field belongs to the local community that has nurtured it for 33 years and whilst Councillors come and go, Pensford Field must remain a haven for wildlife.”

What remains quite extraordinary is the Council’s refusal to agree disclosure of documents seen by the Trust in the course of its consideration of a judicial review. What possible reason can there be for refusing to disclose documents which should be in the public domain? Embarrassment cannot be sufficient.

Saturday 4th October 2025 6pm (Doors open 530pm)

NEW PROGRAM

Jean-Marie Leclair:  Violin Sonata in D major, Op. 9, No. 3

I.   Un poco andante

II.   Allegro – Adagio

                              III.  Sarabande. Largo

                              IV. Tambourin. Presto

Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

                I.   Allegro amabile

               II.   Andante tranquillo – Vivace – Andante – Vivace di più – Andante – Vivace

               III.  Allegretto grazioso (quasi andante)

Johannes Brahms: Scherzo in C minor for Violin & Piano, from the “F.A.E.” Sonata

Claude Debussy:     Prelude de l’ à l’apres-midi d’un Faune

                                            Prelude La fille aux Cheveux de Lin

Maurice Ravel:           Tzigane, M.67

More information and tickets for £10 (students and children free) from – ruthmannuk@yahoo.co.uk

We have the Richmond Park Police being disbanded in November. It has now been confirmed that the South Richmond and Ham, Petersham and Richmond Riverside Safer Neighbourhood Teams will relocate from their bases at Twickenham Police Station and will now be based at Holly Lodge in the Park. The East Sheen SNT will remain at their base at the Sheen Lane Health Centre.

That begs the question as quite how the Park and local areas will be policed.

The Knight Trio concert next Saturday, 4^th October, 6.00pm to 7.00pm at All Saints.  Owing to scheduling difficulties The Knight Trio concert will now be a duo performance by Vedran Janjanin piano and Cristian de Sá violin – a Classic FM Young Classical Star playing in aid of Medical Life Lines Ukraine / ASFT.  More information and tickets for £10 (students and children free) from – ruthmannuk@yahoo.co.uk

Celebrating 50 years of the Mortlake with East Sheen team ministry.

All are invited to a parish service of thanksgiving marking 50 years of the Mortlake with East Sheen team ministry 1975-2025. Next Sunday, 5th October at 3:30pm at Christ Church. The service includes prayers and memories; as well as music written in the parish over the last half century: directed by James Cryer, conducted by Richard Lyne and led by the joint choirs. The Bishop of Southwark is the guest preacher and the service will be followed by a celebratory tea.

Saturday, 4th October, 6.00pm to 7.00pm at All Saints.

Pianist Vedran Janjanin returns with co-founders of The Knight Trio playing to support Medical Life Lines Ukraine / ASFT.

More information and tickets for £10 (students and children free) from – ruthmannuk@yahoo.co.uk

The definitive list in 2025: South of the Railway Line

Still serving

The Plough

The Hare and Hounds

The Victoria

The Stag’s Head.

The Pig and Whistle (formerly the Bull)

No comment on the beer or the food but it is disappointing that none of the above have anything about their interesting history on display in the pub.

Converted

The Derby Arms – converted into flats in 1989.

The Queen’s Arms – Princes Road converted into flats in 1997.

The Market Gardener, Priest’s Bridge (formerly the kink in the Upper Richmond Road) – demolished in 2000, after some (alleged) disreputable behaviour and now residences.

The Spur – demolished 1995 and now two houses.

The Wheatsheaf  – demolished in 1963, it was at the corner of Sheen Lane and St. Leonard’s Road, historically referred to as in Mortlake, though if you accept the current view clearly in East Sheen.

The Five Alls  Upper Richmond Road, opposite Elm Road, demolished 1928, now shops and flats.