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How about this Richmond Council?
Cyclists in the City of London who run red lights face tougher penalties under new proposals.The City of London Police is exploring whether it can use Community Protection Warnings and Notices to tackle law-breaking cycling. The warnings and notices, civil injunctions which … Continue reading
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Tagged biking, cycling, news, red-lights, richmond-council, transport, travel, upper-richmond-road
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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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Tagged community, cycling, lime-bikes, news, politics, richmond-council, richmond-park, richmond-park-robbery, royal-parks-police, travel
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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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Tagged dose-of-nature, environment, judicial-review, news, pensford-field, politics, richmond-council
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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 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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Tagged biking, cycling, forest, lime-bikes, news, richmond-council, transport, travel
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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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