People always tell us how safe they feel in Wimbledon – and so we weren’t really surprised when they said it when we were going door-to-door with our recent 60 Second Survey. That said, there were a few areas of concern – and one of them was how dark it was on the alley between […]

The Dundonald Lib Dem Team is always available to help people improve their local area. You can see some information on the ways we helped local residents to help themselves in 2012  here. We have:

Just a quick update on the Council meeting that happened on 21 November. There were two big issues up for debate. 20’s plenty? As the special topic for the meeting was “sustainable communities with a focus on traffic and transport”, so the first issue was 20mph speed limits. The outcome was that Labour and Conservative […]

A new action group was launched in Merton on 17 October, to campaign to get a default 20mph speed limit applied across the borough. Over 8 million people already live in towns where the default speed limit is 20mph – cutting the overall speed of traffic, reducing injuries and damage from accidents, and lowering pollution. […]

Wednesday night saw Merton Council discuss the draft planning brief for the Rainbow Estate. A motion was passed (text below) asking the Council to carry out a “needs analysis on the capability of local schools, GP surgeries and other vital services to cater for the increase in population that would result from the significant residential […]

Pleased to say that last night’s Merton Council meeting saw councillors back Lib Dem calls for the Bike Hire Scheme to be brought to Merton. This is great news, as increasing cycling could cut congestion, in turn improving local air quality – as fewer cars means less pollution. The Council cabinet should now open negotiations […]

About 40 residents and councillors attended a public meeting on Tuesday 10 July to discuss the draft planning brief for the development of the Rainbow Industrial Estate by Raynes Park Station. Residents expressed a real mixture of views about the plans for 200-250 flats plus improvements to the business area, and we wanted to let […]

The Wimbledon Guardian is reporting that Merton Council is considering turning the Centre Court Shopping Centre car park into a new school, and/or buying back a part of Singlegate Primary School in Colliers Wood, which had been previously sold off. We don’t quite know what they decided, as the public were excluded from the part […]

The Wimbledon Chase Residents Association wrote to residents today with further information about the planning application to develop the Emma Hamilton site. Please see their message below, but also let us know what you think! “At the most recent meeting we shared details of a revised proposal by the developers. This revised proposal takes account […]

A quick update post: Merton Council is now consulting on “on outline proposals for the redevelopment of the Rainbow Industrial Estate as an employment-led mixed-use development” – ie flats and business space. The consultation runs until 25 July. You can see a bit more about the plans and our concerns here.  We are slightly suprised […]