• Kingston Council wants your input on its budget plans

  By RachelEngland at 20:58 on 09/01/12

  

  Kingston Council is planning for the 2012/13 financial year (1 April 2012 - 31 March 2013) and wants your views on which services are important to you. During the next three years the council will see a 19 percent reduction in funding to provide essential local services. Such a large reduction means it needs to consider changes in the way in delivers these services, and invites residents to complete its online budget consultation here....

• Energy recovery facility proposed for Kingston residents' waste

  By RachelEngland at 17:55 on 19/12/11

  

  A high-tech energy recovery facility will be built on the Beddington Lane landfill site in the London Borough of Sutton if planning permission is granted. The South London Waste Partnership has chosen waste management company Viridor as the 'preferred bidder' for its review of its 25-year residual waste treatment contract. Currently, up to 215,000 tonnes of residual waste from households in Croydon, Kingston, Merton and Sutton is...

• Christmas and New Year rubbish collections

  By RachelEngland at 13:29 on 13/12/11

  

  Household waste and recycling collections in Kingston will be one day later than usual over the Christmas and New Year fortnight, commencing 26 December (so if your collection is usually on a Thursday, for two weeks from December 26 it will be on Friday instead). Back to normal on Monday 9 January 2012. More info here

• Latchmere pavilion plan abandoned

  By RachelEngland at 13:14 on 08/12/11

  

  An innovative plan to develop a new community pavilion in Latchmere Recreation Ground has been abandoned. The old pavilion was demolished in 2008 for safety reasons and plans were made for a new community facility that would provide a range of sporting and community activities. However, legal advice taken by the council regarding the covenant on the land revealed that the restrictions would not allow the new pavilion to go ahead. A...

• Thirty mile trip for specialist addiction treatment

  By RachelEngland at 14:15 on 05/12/11

  

  Alcoholics and drug addicts requiring specialist treatment may face a 30 mile trip to get help after the Christmas period. Five south-west London boroughs' inpatient detox services have been retendered and are now under the operation of Sussex Partnership NHS Mental Health Trust, which is based in Crawley, 30 miles away from Kingston. The new service will begin in early 2012, with a dedicated inpatient unit at Crawley Hospital which...

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