Season’s Greetings!
We wish all our readers
A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS
AND
A HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS 2013!
Holiday period recycling
Source: RBK website.
Christmas and New Year Recycling and Landfill Waste Collection 2012/2013
Recycling and landfill waste collections will take place later than usual, for a period over Christmas and New Year between Tuesday 25 December 2012 to Saturday 12 January 2013.
Please ensure that you leave your landfill and recycling out for collection on the correct day as listed below, from 6.30am.
Starting from Tuesday 25 December:
If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Mondays—
Your revised collection dates are:
- Wednesday 2 January
- Tuesday 8 January
If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Tuesdays—
Your revised collection dates are:
- Thursday 27 December
- Thursday 3 January
- Wednesday 9 January
If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Wednesdays—
Your revised collection dates are:
- Friday 28 December
- Friday 4 January
- Thursday 10 January
If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Thursdays—
Your revised collection dates are:
- Saturday 29 December
- Saturday 5 January
- Friday 11 January
If your recycling and waste is usually collected on Fridays—
Your revised collection dates are:
- Monday 31 December
- Monday 7 January
- Saturday 12 January
Collections return to normal from Monday 14 January 2013.
Christmas Tree Collections
Christmas trees will be collected on the same day as your landfill waste between Tuesday 8 January and Friday 18 January 2013. Just leave your tree next to your wheelie bin and we will take it off to be composted, only real trees please.
Alternatively, you can take your tree to be composted at the Villiers Road Household Reuse and Recycling Centre.
Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC)
The Household Reuse and Recycling Centre (HRRC) at Villiers Road will be open from 9.00am to 4.00pm on all public holidays except on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. Public holidays, particularly in the spring, are always busy times so please take care to separate items for recycling before arriving at the site so that you can unload your vehicle as quickly as possible. Before you leave, you can check the length of the queue to the site by viewing the tip cam:
If you are visiting the HRRC in a van, other vehicles over 1.75m (6ft) in height or a vehicle with a trailer, access times are restricted year round to:
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Time
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Monday to Friday
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7.30am to 4.00pm
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Saturday
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7.30pm to 12.30pm
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Sunday
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No access
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Public Holidays
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No access
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Frances Moseley, RIP
Paul Johnston writes:
It was with the deepest sadness that we learnt on Wednesday that Cllr. Frances Moseley had passed away the day before.
Frances was much more interested in serving the community than she was in petty politics and that meant she could and would work happily with other councillors of like mind regardless of party difference. For this reason both Nick Kilby and I rapidly found common ground with her on many issues of concern in the Neighbourhood and became her friends as well as her colleagues. As one who had represented Alpha Road estate when it was part of Surbiton Hill before 2002, I was especially pleased at the attention she paid to the estate and its residents.
We worked together on the Housing Consultative Committee and the Resident Participation Review Group. She kept up her interest in both as long as she could and seemed in fine form when we last saw her only last month. We all hoped that she would be able to carry on, but, sadly, it was not to be.
Our deepest sympathy goes to all her family and friends. May she rest in peace!
Why the changes?
We’ve refreshed the look of the site and the title and the principal domain name. Why? Because last night Kingston and Surbiton Conservatives completed a reorganisation of their branch structure to create branches based on the RBK Neighbourhood system.
I was elected Chair and Alex Ritson Deputy Chair. We have decided to open up this site to the whole of Surbiton (Surbiton Hill, St. Marks, Berrylands and Alexandra Wards), so we thought that a modest change of look might be appropriate.
Please write in and let us know what you think.
Neighbourhood Planning
The next meeting of the Neighbourhood Planning Sub-Committee takes place at Dysart School next Wednesday, 12th December, starting at 7.30 p.m.
The agenda and attendant papers can be consulted on the RBK website. The consultation documents on the Filter Beds site on Portsmouth Road are published in full. The discussion should be quite lively with greater public participation than is allowed on planning applications which the Sub-Committee determines.
The final decision on this question will be taken later by the Development Control Committee.
Ready for snow?
Kingston Council say they are ready to cope with whatever the weather may throw at us on the roads this winter. Follow this link to their website to read all about it and especially look at the map showing the locations of salt and grit bins in the Surbiton Neighbourhood.
Surbiton Forum 