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Pensford Field
The Richmond Council handling of the termination of a 21 year lease to the Pensford Field Environmental Trust (PFET) and the grant of a ten year to Dose of Nature has been explored in EastSheenMatters previously on 3 and 11 … Continue reading
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Richmond Schools Forum Meeting
At a meeting of the Forum on 3 July 2025 the School Place Planning Update Report included a statement on the position of Livingstone Academy after the Inspector’s decision to grant planning permission at the Stag Brewery site. “4.15 To … Continue reading
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Tagged dfe, education, livingstone-academy, mortlake, news, planning-decision, politics, richmond-council, Stag Brewery
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Richmond Park Police Update
The Safer Parks Police Panel/Richmond Park met on Thursday 9th July 2025. Cllr Julia Cambridge reports: The SPPP meet every few months to discuss policing, hear about reported cases from Sgt Pete Sturgess and hear from Parks Manager Paul Richards … Continue reading
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Mortlake Mash-Up : The Vision
It’s a rather longer post than usual but it’s in a good cause! Scroll down to see the whole
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Richmond Council ‘Democracy’ on Pensford Field
At a meeting on 25 June 2025 Richmond Council’s Finance, Policy and Resources Committee reached a final decision to grant a 10-year lease of Pensford Field Nature Reserve in Kew to the mental health charity Dose of Nature (DoN). This … Continue reading
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Tagged community, dose-of-nature, habitats-and-heritage, kew, mental-health, news, pensford-field, richmond-council
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Lime bikes
The Transport and Air Quality Committee of Richmond Council met with representatives of the hire bike operators Lime and Forest in an open meeting on 24 June 2025. See https://richmond.public-i.tv/core/portal/webcast_interactive/993257 to view the meeting. EastSheenMatters has published many posts about … Continue reading
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Go Ape is No Go say the Friends of Palewell Common
There was a record turnout at the meeting of the Friends of Palewell Common at All Saints Church Hall on Tuesday 24 June 202. Under discussion was the potential threat from a company called Go Ape to build a zipwire … Continue reading
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Tagged community, east-sheen, eastsheenmatters, environment, news, palewell-common, richmond-council
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Wimbledon Tennis AELTC Expansion
It is a somewhat ironic coincidence that while the world’s top tennis players will be fighting out the later stages of the leading Grand Slam Tennis Tournament in the world at Wimbledon, the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) who … Continue reading
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Stag Brewery Planning Permission: Livingstone Academy Part 2
[Part 1 of this review was posted yesterday.] For the decision see https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ViewCase.aspx?Caseid=3339060&CoID=0 A review of the decision to give planning permission for the Livingstone Academy, a 1200 pupil secondary school in Mortlake SW14 7ET Contributed by Geoff Woodhouse who … Continue reading
