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80% TRUST
POLICE
Trust
in the Metropolitan Police Service is increasing and fear of crime
is falling, according to the results of a comprehensive survey.
NOISE RULES
UNJUST
West
London Friends of the Earth has called BAA's offers on Heathrow
noise and blight mean and divisive.
ELECTRICAL
SAFETY AT HOME
MP
Jenny Tonge heads up the government campaign to improve the safety
of electrical works in the home, following the tragic death of
her daughter earlier in 2004.
IMPROVEMENTS
COMING TO ADULT COLLEGE
Richmond
Adult College's Clifden Centre is to get a revamp to bring facilities
up to date.
PICK OF
THE CROP
Pick
your own from stalls at the local farmers markets - there's still
time before Christmas.
POLICE APPEAL
FOR WITNESSES AS MAN LEFT IN COMA
Richmond
Police appeal for witnesses, including two girls, to a serious
assault in the town centre on 10 December that left a man in a
coma.
Shoplifting,
attempted abduction and theft of champagne are among the incidents
where police appeal for help.
GIRLS'
ADMISSIONS
Concerns
are raised about the number of borough girls being admitted to
Waldegrave School.
A
new police liaison group has been established in Kew, bringing
together police, schools, councillors and members of the community.
MOGDEN
NEIGHBOURS VOICE CAUTIOUS WELCOME
Residents
living around the Mogden Sewage Treatment Plant have given a cautious
welcome to Ofwat's pricing structure for the water industry.
BUT THE
AGENCY IS DISAPPOINTED
As
Ofwat announced its final determination of water price limits
for 2005-10, the Environment Agency sees a missed opportunity
for a long term solution to dealing with frequent sewage pollution
of the Thames.
THAMES POLLUTION
IS ILLEGAL
The
government faces a legal challenge for its breach of the Urban
Waste Water Treatment Directive with no provision for untreated
sewage run-off.
CALL FOR MORE
RECYCLING
Richmond
Council is urged to include plastics and cardboard in doorsetp
recycling but has no firm plans yet.
BIJOU BOGS
BONANZA
Richmond
Council is selling three desirable public toilet buildings in
Twickenham, Teddington and on Richmond Riverside.
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GIRLS'
ADMISSIONS
Richmond's
Cabinet Member for Schools, Cllr Geoffrey Samuel, is attempting
to find a solution to the quandry of admissions to Waldegrave
School.
Concerns
are raised about the number of borough girls being admitted to
Waldegrave School.
INSPIRED
IDEAS FOR ICE RINK
Nothing
less than an architectectural masterpiece is needed for a new
international ice skating rink, and the competition is open to
find it.
FROM
NEED TO KNOW TO RIGHT TO KNOW
From
January 2005, the Freedom of Information Act will change everything
- the public will have the general right to access recorded information
held by all public bodies.
NEW TRAIN
TIMES
You
can print out the new train timetables, so check departure and
arrival times at your local station through the link on the left.
LAUNCHING
AT CHRISTMAS
The
social centre at Barnes Green Day Centre celebrates its launch
with a day of entertainment on 17 December.
FINES FOR
ILLEGAL SPRAY PAINT SALES
Shop
owners in the borough face fines of up to £2,500 if they are found
selling spray paint to under-sixteens.
COUNCIL SPENDS
THOUSANDS ON FUND RAISERS
It
will cost Richmond Council almost £100,000 for the fund
raisers to raise funding for the Arcadia in the city project encompassing
the view from Richmond Hill.
NIGHT NOISE
IN COURT
A
legal challenge by Richmond Council and other local authorities
to government proposals for night flights and its classification
of aircraft noise opens in the High Court on 14 December.
WE'RE
TOP OF THE LEAGUE AGAIN!
Richmond's
schools top the annual primary league tables for the second year
running with an average score across the borough of 262 out of
a maximum of 300.
CHANGES
APPROVED
A
new look, smaller hotel and health club, removal of car parking,
and bigger conference, exhibition and banqueting centre, are agreed
in variations to the Rugby Football Union's application to develop
its South Stand (item 3h).
See
application online
HAVE YOU
SEEN THIS VAN?
Police
appeal for information about a white Ford Courier van, number
P610 XCN, seen at Twickenham Green on the night of the murder
of Amelie Delagrange.
The
November edition of Richmond Council's Arcadia Magazine is online
here.
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PARTY SAFELY
Go
out this festive season, have a drink, enjoy yourself - but don't
forget to look after yourself too, urge borough police.
There
is no let-up in crime incidents for the season of goodwill, and
police appeal for information and witnesses this week, like any
other.
PROTECT
YOURSELF AGAINST FLU
Richmond
and Twickenham Primary Care Trust urges local people at risk to
get their flu jab for the winter.
FAILING OUR
E-COMMUNITY
Richmond
Council is failing to meet its target on empowering and supporting
communities online, and missing out on its online communities.
ROUND ONE
TO THE COUNCILS
The
government has conceded that early morning aircraft noise levels,
as suffered by residents, can be taken into account, not levels
"on paper" on manufacturers' noise certificates.
LEGAL
CHALLENGES ON AIRPORT EXPANSION
The
government faces two legal challenges over its plans to vastly
expand airport capacity in the South East, including runways and
night flights at Heathrow.
BARNES CPZ
CONSULTATION
Questions
are raised about the controlled parking zone proposed for Barnes,
and local member, Cllr John Ross, responds.
BOROUGH
COMMANDER HALF-YEAR REPORT
Borough
Commander Ian Edwards gives an overview of the past six months
of policing in Richmond in a report to the Police Community Consultative
Group.
LICENSING
POLICY TO BE MONITORED
Richmond's
Regulatory Committee narrowly rejected a cumulative impact policy
for licensed premises in Richmond and Twickenham, but will keep
the matter under review.
PCT MEMBERS
RE-APPOINTED
Richmond
and Twickenham Primary Care Trust announce the re-appointment
of the chairman and two non-executive directors.
CHEMICAL
POLLUTION LEVELS DOWN
The
Thames shows a lower level of chemical pollution from herbicides,
but the Environment Agency keeps up the pressure for further improvement.
ROADS AND
TRANSPORT GRANT
Funding
of £4.2m from government, via Transport for London, is allocated
to the borough for the year 2004/5.
ACCESSIBLE
RIVER
The
Jubilee Gardens on Mortlake riverside gets a facelift through
Transport for London that will make the towpath accessible to
all.
NEW RESEARCH
Marco
Forgione welcomes the establishment of a university foundation
to research health implications from 3G masts.
GOVERNMENT
ORDERS COUNCIL OVER AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Richmond
Council has been ordered by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
to increase the provision of affordable housing in the borough.
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TURN DOWN THE
VOLUME
In
an increasingly noisy world, Richmond Council is attempting to tackle
excessive noise from the borough's pubs and clubs.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS
The
community websites in this borough need more volunteers to contribute
to what is a unique social initiative.
POSTER
CAMPAIGN
Spread
the word far and wide about the community websites.
PLANNING ROW
A noisy
interchange in Richmond's Council Chamber raised issues on how members
might have voted over a planning application for a council property.
SCHOOL WON'T
BE LEFT IN LIMBO
Vincent
Cable, MP, gets an assurance from the minister that work will be
completed at Trafalgar School despite the failure of the PFI contractor,
Jarvis.
FT FEATURES
RICHMOND'S THREAT OF LEGAL ACTION
Richmond
Council seeks advice on legal action to ensure compliance with the
contract for the school's refurbishment.
ROAD WORKS
ON RICHMOND HILL
Drivers
are advised to expect long delays until 14 February as Transco replaces
gas piping, bringing road closures.
CHRISTMAS
RUBBISH COLLECTION Collections
of both refuse and recycling over Christmas and New Year will follow
very much the normal timetable, and only one collection will be
delayed - from Friday 31 December 2004 to Monday 3 January 2005.
ACCIDENT
INQUIRY
The Independent
Police Complaints Commission is to manage an investigation into
a fatal incident in Grosvenor Avenue, East Sheen, where a milkman
was in collision with a Metropolitan Police Service van in the early
hours of Thursday 25 November.
THROWING
LIGHT ON THE PROBLEM
Cllr
Geoffrey Samuel asks whether brighter lighting might be an answer
to anti-social behaviour carried out in dark corners, and he is
asking his ward residents if they agree.
CONTRACTS
FACE PROBLEMS
PFI
contracts between Richmond Council and the troubled Jarvis are causing
some worries says MP.
APOLOGIES FOR
BASIC MISTAKE IN PRESS RELEASE
Richmond
Council has formally apologised to opposition leader Cllr Serge
Lourie over a press release that was "clearly outside the rules",
following his complaint that it contravened the code of practice
on local government publicity.
CAN YOU
HELP?
Police
call for help from the public to find the villains causing crime
in the borough.
Several
burglaries with the loss of valueable items and a rogue workman
who embezzles an elderly householder out of several hundred pounds
- can you help find the crooks?
REPRESENT
YOUR PEERS
Young
people interested in democracy can get involved, representing their
peers on the borough's youth forum.
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