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NGS garden open Sunday 24 June

Local NGS garden open for viewing Sunday 24 June.   If the RA's Secret Gardens event on the 17th has given you a taste for more garden viewing, you can see Jane & John McNicholas' lovely garden (9 Imber Park Road) the following Sunday when it will be opened under the National Gardens Scheme.  See below for details.

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TDiB features in the Surrey Advertiser

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Thames Ditton's Flying the Flag!

FLYING THE FLAG!   To celebrate the Royal Wedding, our fantastic Union Flags have gone up in Thames Ditton High Street. Says Cllr Tricia Bland, we must thank local builders Brian and Martin Poulter who downed tools to help put up the flags on the shops, businesses and residences. The flags will remain in place through the Secret Gardens on Father’s Day, 17 June and the World Cup to cheer these events’.  

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Flooding Risk - Update

FLOODING  NEWS    The end of March saw the Thames River level reach 5.7m as measured close to Thames Ditton Island. Another 0.5m would have seen flood water coming out of the drains and starting to flood Alexandra Road, as happened at the end of 2013 and early 2014.  Have you signed up for flood alerts (an initial alert when there is the possibility of some flooding) and flood warnings (when property flooding is expected)? If not, please phone the Environment Agency ...

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TDiB gears up for Summer colour

VOTE WINNING SUMMER DISPLAYS AT THAMES DITTON STATION     The local elections may be over but Thames Ditton Station is celebrating the centenary of women getting the vote in style with a riot of flowers and herbs in the suffragette colours of purple (for loyalty), white (for purity) and green (for hope) in the 23 wooden planters and 13 wheelbarrows lining platforms one and two.    The Thames Ditton In Bloom volunteers, armed with their forks and trowels, joined by st...

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Esher May Fair - Sunday 20th May

  The 63rd Esher May Fair on Esher Green will be opened by The Mayor of Elmbridge at noon, on Sunday 20 May 2018.  This popular local community event is a major fundraising activity for the organizers, 4th Thames Ditton ‘Ajax’ Sea Scouts.  They are not the only group to benefit though, charities and organisations such as the RNLI and Friends of the Strays of Greece have stalls on the day and raise money for their own good causes.   An action packed, fun afterno...

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Election Results

Congratulations to both our Association candidates, Caroline James (Thames Ditton ward) and Nigel Haig-Brown (Hinchley Wood & Weston Green ward), who won with substantial majorities.     Thames Ditton ward      TD & WG Residents' Association:   1593    (65.6%)      Conservative Party:                           412    (17.0%) ...

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Election - Misleading Tory claims

Conservative claims that they "opposed the present Residents' Association/Lib Dem coalition administration’s proposal to build over 5,000 houses on our Green Belt" is a completely inaccurate statement. The Council has not yet produced any specific proposals in relation to the Local Plan, nor has it yet proposed where the greatly increased housing numbers required by the government should be located.   The Strategic Options consulted on last year were part of the process required by ...

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Rail Consultation - Result

  South Western Railway has published the outcome of the public consultation into timetable changes from 9 December 2018.     Following your Residents‘ Association’s campaign for improvements to the timetable for the Hampton Court branch, South Western Railway has agreed to include the 19:23 fast evening service from Waterloo to Thames Ditton and Hampton Court into its proposal.    If you responded to the consultation - Thank you for your participat...

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Busy-Bee Bloomers at it again

THAMES DITTON IN BLOOM GARDENS THE STATION FOR OUR THREATENED HONEYBEES   The sun was shining when the Thames Ditton In Bloom (TDIB) volunteers gathered at Thames Ditton Station on Sunday 8th April to greet the team from the Bee Friendly Trust for the latest phase of their gardening initiative at Thames Ditton Station. For many months TDIB has been working on plans to install a number of large Bee Friendly Trust planters, constructed from sustainably sourced railway sleepers, fil...

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Thames Ditton in Bloom - In Action

THAMES DITTON IN BLOOM PLANT THE HIGH STREET     Volunteers from the Thames Ditton In Bloom community gardening team were out in force on Sunday 26 March to plant out the long bed to the front of the bus stop near the entrance to Boyle Farm, plus the wooden planters lining the High Street up to Summer Road. They were joined by residents from Boyle Farm plus officers from the Green Spaces team at Elmbridge Borough Council. ‘The Thames Ditton In Bloom team have been wanting ...

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Parking Review - Final Result

Surrey County Council has now published the final results of its Moleseys and Dittons Parking Review.    Click here to go straight to relevant web page.  The new parking arrangements will come into effect once the road signage and lines have been completed - anticipated to be April/May this year.   The Highways Department has released the following letter :   In August / September 2017 we advertised our intention to introduce a number of new parking controls and p...

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