Nick Kilby and I, together with other Surbiton Neighbourhood Councillors have met with representatives from the Police, Primary Care Trust (PCT), GP surgeries and the voluntary sector to explore the exciting possibility of delivering a range of community services from the Surbiton Hospital site – ‘a community hub’.
The ‘fact-finding’ event took place on 4 February. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Health and Community’
February 17, 2009
Surbiton Hospital site could become a ‘Community Hub’
December 2, 2008
The pleasant part of council work
Last night I was asked to present the awards at School Lane Estate’s gardening tournament for 2008. The residents set out to show what could be done in an estate of maisonettes and sheltered flats to make the environment more colourful and greener. There isn’t much amenity space for tenants and leaseholders but people used [...]
September 25, 2008
Council: disorder and disability
Council on Tuesday was, frankly, not the best performance Kingston has ever seen.
To start with a Conservative motion on anti-social behaviour and crime in Kingston was turned rapidly into a bear garden. Cllr . Richard Hudson (Con), whose motion it was, wanted to change it very slightly by deleting two words from the end of [...]
August 3, 2008
Surbiton Hospital in the news again
Fascinating to see the front page of this week’s ‘Informer’. Hot on the heels of the latest Surbiton Hill In Touch out trots our Lib Dem MP with a spot of ‘me-too-ism’ if ever I saw one. Well, we welcome support from wherever, but I’m curious at the timing since, when I’ve tried to raise [...]
