Surbiton Hospital: consultation meeting date announced
Follow this link to the Surrey Comet website where the announcement of the date is reported along with information about consultation on polyclinics in New Malden and Kingston Town.
LIB DEMS AGREE WASTE COLLECTIONS ARE RUBBISH
At Tuesday’s Council meeting the Lib Dem Councillor in charge of Recycling and Landfill, Cllr Bob Steed agreed with Conservatives that the Garden Waste collection service is not up to standard and they need to ‘do something’.
Conservative Cllr Eric Humphrey asked what steps the Council were taking to remedy deficiencies in the Green Waste Collection and this was the unsatisfactory answer given to him.
As well as paying for the Green Waste collection in addition to Council tax, Kingston residents also pay the highest Council tax in London and expect a better service from the current Administration.
The Conservatives fully support measures to increase recycling- a service they themselves introduced many years ago – but it needs to be an efficient service and value for money – which is not what our residents are getting at the moment from the Lib Dems.
Surbiton Town Centre Improvement Consultation
The Surbiton Neighbourhood Officer has sent us this advice about events and timings associated with this very important consultation on the future shape of Surbiton town centre.
Exhibition venues, dates and times:
Thurs. 24th and Fri. 25th September 11 a.m.to 7 p.m.
Outside Zizzi Restaurant, 38 Victoria Road, Surbiton
YMCA, 49 Victoria Road, Surbiton
Sat. 26th September 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Surbiton Station Forecourt (at Surbiton Festival)
Mon. 28th September – Sat. 31st October
(during library opening times)
Surbiton Library, Ewell Road, Surbiton
You can also access information on line at
www.kingston.gov.uk/surbiton_town_consultation
between Thursday 24th September and Sat. 31st October
The closing date for views is the 31st October 2009. The draft Improvement Strategy for Surbiton Town Centre, taking into account the results of this consultation, will be presented to the Surbiton Neighbourhood Committee for consideration and approval on 9th December 2009.
Council last night
Conservative Councillors secured important assurances at last night’s meeting of the Council from the Administration that they will protect access to schools for Kingston Children.
The Conservative Councillors were concerned that the submission to overturn the Greenwich Judgement through the Sustainable Communities Act was being made without due consideration of important issues that need to be addressed before any such change can be undertaken.
Kingston children attend schools outside the borough in Richmond, Elmbridge and Merton. The Council needs to ensure that, should other Borough Councils seek to stop our children attending their schools, we must have enough school places in Kingston to cope with the additional demand. This may well need more new forms of entry than the additional 15 already identified for the growth in our population.
The Conservative Councillors believe that parents should have a right to choice of schools for their children and this will need to be reviewed to ensure that our schools have surplus capacity to provide this choice post after the Greenwich Judgement.
The Administration has a track record of not doing its homework when it comes to our schools. They missed the growth in population and the council is planning to build up to three new primary schools and expand many others in the borough. They also need to build a large secondary school in north Kingston and to increase the sizes of two other secondary schools when they are rebuilt as part of the Building Schools for the Future, having previously denied further provision was needed.
Cllr Nick Kilby said “I am pleased last night that the administration recognised that they would have been deeply irresponsible to seek this important change in education law without making sure we can definitely provide a school place for every Kingston child as they need it. They have been woefully lacking in provision of sufficient school places in the last two years and we do not need to plunge our schools to new depths of chaos!”
Tax rebate scam – latest
I sent the email in the previous post to RBK Trading Standards. It seems there are a number of HMRC-related scams doing the rounds at the moment.
Readers should follow this lead to find out more from HMRC (the Inland Revenue, as was) itself.
Meanwhile be assured that HMRC would NEVER contact you about a tax refund by email.
Tax refund or another scam – BEWARE
THIS HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED BY EMAIL: IF YOU GET ONE DO NOT RESPOND TO IT AT ALL
TAX REFUND ID NUMBER: 381716209
REFUND AMOUNT: 327.54 GBPDear Applicant,
The contents of this email and any attachments are confidential and as applicable, copyright in these is reserved to HM Revenue & Customs.
Unless expressly authorised by us, any further dissemination or distribution of this email or its attachments is prohibited.If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please reply to inform us that you have received this email in error and then delete it without retaining any copy.
I am sending this email to announce: After the last annual calculation of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of 327.54 GBP
You have attached the tax return form with the TAX REFUND NUMBER ID: 381716209, complete the tax return form attached to this message.
After completing the form, please submit the form by clicking the SUBMIT button on form and allow us 5-9 business days in order to process it.
Our head office address can be found on our web site at http://www.hmrc.co.uk/
Sincerely,
NEIL ROBINSON
HMRC Tax Credit Officer
officer.robinson@hmrc.co.uk
Preston
PR1 0SB
The form asks for highly confidential information about your passwords, credit card number, address and phone number, even your mother’s maiden name. It’s as near as possible a complete kit for stealing your identity. DO NOT ON ANY ACCOUNT FILL IN OR SUBMIT THIS FORM!!
It looks official but the address is NOT a valid one for HM Revenue and Customs. HMRC is not a ‘.co.uk’ for a start and their email addresses do NOT begin ‘officer.surname’ Believe me – I checked it out with a very log serving Tax official to whom I am married!
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