The Parish of Mortlake with East Sheen is seeking an Administrator to support the clergy and lay leadership. It is a varied job, with opportunities to meet people and to support the work of the three churches in the Parish: St Mary’s Mortlake, Christ Church, East Sheen and All Saints, East Sheen in the Diocese of Southwark.
The Parish Office is at St Mary’s, Mortlake High Street, SW14 JA. The office serves as the hub of communications and administrative support for the Parish as a whole.
The dates for the 2025 Community Conversations have now been confirmed. Registration links for joining in person and online will be available one month before each event.
If you are attending in person you will be able to meet your councillor and view information stalls between 6.30 and 7pm. From 7 to 9pm a conversation will take place for those attending in person and online.
Mortlake and Barnes Common, Barnes and East Sheen
Date: Thursday 3 July 2025
Time: 7 to 9pm – doors open from 6.30pm
Location: All Saints East Sheen, 63 East Sheen Avenue, SW14 8AX
The Mayor of London granted planning permission for the redevelopment of the Homebase site on Manor Road on 23 May 2024. More than a year on there is no news about what is regarded as an important part of Richmond Council’s future housing provision.
There have been rumours that the owners Avanton may sell the site now they have planning permission, but there are no further details on this.
Candy Floss and Music followed by James overseeing the Gladiators with an audience as intent as if they were at Wembley or Sheffield watching the Contenders.
A good crowd braved a hot sunny afternno and made their way past the iconic Phoenix at the entrance to the School.
And former pupils Lewis and Jordan Hambridge offered the opportunity to get up close and personal in a wild encounter with their amazing animals.
EastSheenMatters has published many posts about cycling in the borough over the last nine months, including several on Lime Bikes. You can access these by going into the blog site and searching for Lime Bikes.
Executive summary:
– Council are working on a paper that will be discussed at a comittee meeting later this year (September?) regarding the strategy for hire bikes.
– Recent consultation resulted in 1200 responses, about a third of these were negative; with main complaints being about inconsiderate riding and parking.
– The council officer noted the overarching objectives to find more sustainable transport options to replace car journeys and how hire bikes had been useful for micro mobility, especially parts of the borough further from train stations and bus routes.
– Lime has been operating in the borough for a number of years, has seen strong growth in usage, currently has typically towards 1000 bikes across the borough as per its agreement with the council. Lime say demand is not always met and noted Hounslow has around 2300 bikes.
– Richmond operates a hybrid model with some dedicated bays in town centres and flexible parking elsewhere; Lime likes this model.
– The pros/cons of a bay-only parking model was discussed. It was noted that this would require a 25 bays per square km, or roughly one every 250m; Lime’s own data indicates that people want to have a bike within two minutes’ walk. Overall this would be more than 500 bays across the borough, using space that is currently on-street parking – politically difficult. From a night safety perspective and for convenience for users, parking at your destination as per the current flexible model was noted as a benefit.
– It was noted that users of Lime bikes are more diverse that typical cyclists, with more women, ethnic minorities and wider age groups using the bikes.
East Sheen resident Dominae Lorna Hawthorne has been awarded the Meritorious Order of Malta by the sacred house of the hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and the military order of the Holy Sepulchre of our Lord at a ceremony at Brompton Oratory this week. The award recognises the twenty years Lorna has spent working to support homeless people in London.
The citation – the original is in Latin below – states (a rough translation):
Your merits and inclination of spirit towards our Order, as well as the devotion with which you are highly commended among us, encourage us to embrace your most distinguished person with a signal of benevolence. Therefore, gladly consenting to the petitions presented to us, we grant you to wear and carry the Silver Medal struck in honor of the Meritorious Order of Malta.
We grant you the full licence and opportunity to bear and refer, and we declare it openly. We urge all and each of the Brothers of our said House, holding any authority, dignity, or office, present and future, by virtue of holy obedience, not to make any concessions contrary to our present declaration of concession and participation, but rather to strive to observe them inviolably.
In witness whereof, our Master’s Seal is impressed here in black wax.
