Council services and the weather
Latest news on services to hand from RBK
Environmental Services
Gritting: 100% of gritting crews were mobilised yesterday afternoon / night at 3pm Sunday afternoon and at 4am Monday morning. All main roads were passable with care and at 11.30am this morning.
Gritting commenced on all routes again at 10.30am. The weather forecast is for further snow this afternoon and evening when the priority will be to keep major routes clear and passable with care. All routes will be gritted again from around 4pm. Depending on the weather a further gritting will be undertaken from approximately 9pm.
TfL have asked that all bus routes be given priority and that is happening as a matter of course within our planned operations
Presently the weather forecast suggests no further snow from midnight with freezing conditions throughout the night. If this remains the situation gritting on all routes will commence from 5am on Tuesday morning. Should this forecast change the option remains available to grit again between midnight and 5.00am.
Street Cleansing, Recycling and Refuse Collections are suspended and are likely to be suspended on Tuesday. A recovery plan for collections is being developed.
Learning and children’s Services,
All schools are closed apart from 4 schools; Alexander, Latchmere, St Luke’s and St Matthews.
Meals on Wheels: Meals-on-wheels are being sent via RBK mini buses today (each with an escort). Due to weather, transport will stop on main roads, while staff carry meals onto destination.
Housing
The Contact Centre at Tadlow is open.
Mears and Smith & Byford have a skeleton staff available.
Further Information for residents
All Directorates have informed us of the state of their service.
Information has have been put on the RBK Internet.
Radio Jackie informed of traffic and service issues
Mayor funds 50 more police officers for outer London train stations
The Mayor has delivered yet another key manifesto pledge when he announced an additional 50 British Transport Police officers to patrol trains and stations in outer London on non-TfL services to clamp down on low-level crime and disorder at outer London rail stations. The teams of officers, to be rolled out over the first few months of 2009 will provide visible reassurance at more than 100 stations and routes in London’s outer boroughs.
Surbiton and Berrylands stations will benefit from this extra policing.
Victoria Road repairs next week
Just received from RBK Highways:
Starting on Monday 19 January 2009 between 9am and 4pm in Victoria Road, Surbiton R J Dance on behalf of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames will be carrying out essential maintenance.
The work is programmed to take 4 days. The contractor has been asked to complete in 2 days this is dependant on the weather.
Victoria Road will be reduced to a single alternative traffic flow controlled by temporary signals.
Planning meeting this week
Surbiton Neighbourhood Planning Committee meets on Thursday 15th January at 7.30 p.m. at Dysart School, 190 Ewell Road Surbiton.
Items of interest in Surbiton Hill are:
- 89 Ditton Road
- 86 Tolworth Park Road, and
- 32 Ewell Road
Collection of old dustbins (RBK press release)
Residents who want to dispose of their old wheelie bins or dustbins are reminded that Kingston Council will be operating a special collection service during the weeks commencing 19 and 26 January 2009.
If you would like your old bin taken away, simply leave it at the front of your property with a yellow ‘For Collection’ sticker on the lid.
These special stickers were supplied in a pre-Christmas newsletter sent to all households involved in the new Recycling and Landfill Waste Collection Service.
Your old bins will be collected on your usual landfill waste collection day. Kingston Council will recycle as many bins as possible, so please make sure they are empty and washed out.
Christmas tree collection
During the weeks commencing 5 and 12 January 2009 – Simply put out your real Christmas Tree out on your landfill waste collection day. The waste contractor will collect it and take it for composting for FREE.
This does NOT apply to artificial trees!
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