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Affordable Housing: A Lesson for Richmond?
When it’s developers v people, usually the money wins. See how one community came out on top The Guardian 20 December 2025 “What happens when international capital arrives on your doorstep and threatens to devour your home? The residents of … Continue reading
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Pensford Field More
EastSheenMatters drew attention to the current situation on the takeover of Pensford Field following the publication of a report from the Pensford Field Environmental Trust (PETS) outlining its plans to wind up the charity. https://childlawobserver10.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=4356&action=edit One important point raised was … Continue reading
Affordable Housing in Richmond: Green Party Resolution to Richmond Council: 2nd December
“This council expresses deep concern that: · only 40 genuinely affordable homes were completed in Richmond since March 2022, with zero so far this year. · Affordable housing supply has dwindled year on year since 2018 – just 166 completed since 2018/19 … Continue reading
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Pensford Field Environmental Trust: EastSheenMatters considers the current position of the use of green land in Kew
The Richmond Council handling of its takeover of Pensford Field was explored in EastSheenMatters during the summer, most recently at The Trust which had operated the site for 30 years has now circulated a report on the current circumstances. “We … Continue reading
Fair Funding Review 2025 : Impact on Richmond Council to take legal action
The Government launched a consultation for its Fair Funding Review 2025 in June 2025. Its aim is to reform the distribution of funding to local authorities in England, with significant changes to be implemented starting in the 2026-27 financial year. The Council is challenging the lack of transparency and fairness in the consultation process for these reforms,. It is asking for “the Government to publish its … Continue reading
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Lech Walesa speaks
EastSheenMatters rarely writes on international matters, but a letter from the President of Poland to the US President, written earlier this year, has recently come to light. It was reported in Newsweek in March, but does not otherwise appear to … Continue reading
Is coffee waste?
BBC News reported today that Richmond Council has. within hours, reversed its decision to fine a woman £150 for pouring the remnants of her coffee into a drain. The local resident said she thought she was acting responsibly when she … Continue reading
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Stag Brewery What Next : Update
The text below was published in EastSheenMatters on Tuesday 12 August 2025. Bold now added. “So it is August and Mortlake and East Sheen may resemble a deserted Parisian suburb. But it’s more than three months since we received the … Continue reading
Lime bikes in Richmond
The use of Lime bikes as provider of e-bike services in Richmond was last discussed on EastSheenMatters on 28 June 2025. It was reported then that the Council would be considering the matter further at a meeting of the Transport … Continue reading
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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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