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Aldi store application - Council Meeting

Elmbridge Borough Council's Planning Committee will meet on Tuesday 10 March at 7.00pm to decide on Aldi's revised planning application 2025/1182 for a food store on Portsmouth Road   The Planning Officer reference report, which recommends conditional granting of planning permission, can be downloaded at: https://edocs.elmbridge.gov.uk/IAM/IAMCache/4819545/4819545.pdf For details of the meeting, including attendance in the public gallery of the Council Chamber, and viewing the web...

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Hook Park - 2,000-home development

Proposed Hook Park development in Chessington, next to the A3  Open Meeting scheduled for 18 March   Kingston planning officers are holding an Open Meeting on Wednesday 18 March at 7.30pm at: Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church 100 Leatherhead RoadChessington  KT9 2HY It is to hear residents' views on the proposed 2,000-flat development on the Chessington side of the A3. This huge development will border Hinchley Wood and Claygate, and is not far from the prop...

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Amendments to Surrey Council's budget

Surrey County Council’s final Budget agreed after vital amendments proposed by Residents’ Association & Independents Group were included.  Group Leader Cllr Catherine Powell secured support for several key amendments, which led to Surrey County Council’s final Budget passing today. The amendments are: Re-establish the Foster Carer Association and extend foster carer support. Focus on making schools more autism friendly by expanding the PINS (Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodive...

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Community Fridge in Thames Ditton

The Residents' Association is aware of the strength of local feeling about the future of the Community Fridge in Thames Ditton.  The matter was brought up at our Open Meeting on 27 January. We have taken the view that the differences between the two organisations involved are a matter between them, not something in which the RA should become directly involved.  However to assist them in finding a resolution, one of our Councillors instigated a mediation process between them, using a...

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All Saints - Now Painted

Following their successful 'Paint All Saints' fundraising appeal, work on the church building has now been completed - see the photos below.  A message from All Saints Weston Green: The work to repair and repaint this beautiful Grade 2 Listed building is now complete and ahead of schedule. All Saints is once again ‘The white church by the pond’.  The building looks magnificent and if you haven’t seen it, please take a look. We are so grateful to our local community for all the ge...

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Milbourne Pond's annual plant cutback

Local residents turn out for the RA-organised cutback of the vegetation overgrowth around Milbourne Pond.  In what is now an annual event, many local residents in Weston Green came forward on Sunday 2nd November to help clear out the excessive plant growth of mainly brambles and pussy willow around Milbourne Pond. Milbourne Pond was restored back in 2018 in a project spearheaded by the RA.  It involved reprofiling it to tap into an underlying aquifer, thereby maintaining a depth of...

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Sustainable Living Handbook now available

Do you want to start living more sustainably but don’t know where to start? The Thames Ditton & Weston Green Nature & Climate Festival was set up in 2022 to help solve that dilemma. Now festival founder Gill Coates has collected the best advice, tips and tricks from three Festivals and compiled it into a single easy-to-read handbook, explaining simple changes we can introduce so we can all make a difference. With chapters on energy, water, fashion, plastics, food, electric vehic...

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TD Men in Sheds setting up a new base

The Thames Ditton Men in Sheds group (TDMiS) now has a new shed - in the grounds of St Nicholas Church. But it needs substantial refurbishment, requiring much fundraising. In its 10 years of operating next to the former Thames Ditton Community Centre, TDMiS has been an organisation of real value, both to its members and for the products they have made - seen in many places around Thames Ditton. Now, after a 1½-year gap in its operation they hope to be back in business soon in a 'new' shed a...

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A pharmacy for TD - the fight continues

Monica Harding supports our efforts to reinstate a pharmacy in Thames Ditton  Our MP, Monica Harding, has written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, asking to meet with him to press our case for reinstating our much-needed local pharmacy.  A copy of her letter is shown below.  

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Paint All Saints Project - Update

An update from All Saints Weston on their project to repair and repaint the church     This leaflet below was dropped through every door in Weston Green last week. Thank you for the wonderful support from our local community, and please continue to come along to our ongoing fundraising events through until March next year including the Quiz Night taking place in the church on 20th September. You can donate to our appeal using the QR code in the leaflet, or go to: https://give...

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Aldi Application - RA's letter to residents

Aldi's new Planning Application (2025/1182) 31 August 2025 Dear Resident, You may be aware that Aldi has submitted a new planning application for a food store on the old Guy Salmon site on Portsmouth Road. The application has been available for public review for the past few weeks. We are aware (and the formulaic content of many of supporters' comments seems to support this) that Aldi are actively using social media to generate letters of support from people who are unaware of the details of ...

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Aldi submits new planning application

Aldi have submitted a new planning application, 2025/1182, for the old Guy Salmon site on Portsmouth Road   Aldi's new planning application is for a single-level store - as shown in their public consultation documents last year (see computer-generated street scene opposite).  Their earlier application for a two-storey structure was turned down on appeal, mainly due to the adverse affect it would have on the character of the area, and the overbearing impact of houses in Westvi...

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