The Kew Society has joined the Royal Botanic Gardens and Richmond Council (LBRUT) in objecting to the plans for the redevelopment of the Sega site because of the impact the…
READ MORESega Site Redevelopment – Great West Road
Planning - Current
The developer Areli submitted a planning application in November 2023 (P/2023/3208) for the redevelopment of the currently derelict Sega site on the Great West Road, just behind the Brentford Stadium…
READ MOREMORTLAKE BREWERY SITE
News, Planning - Current
UPDATED – FEB 2024 The planning application (planning reference 22/0900/OUT) for the revised redevelopment scheme was approved 8-1 at a Richmond Council planning committee meeting on 31 January. The application had…
READ MORENow available online: Air Quality & Climate Change in Kew – From ULEZ to The Risk of Flooding
Environment - Current, News
If you weren’t able to come or want to check back on the facts, this recent event at the National Archives is now avaiable to view again. A panel of…
READ MOREFollowing requests from members, here is the slide deck which Thames Water showed at the recent visit to their waste water treatment plant at Mogden on 16th February. Thames Water…
READ MOREStephen Bartlett looks at how one of Kew’s previously hidden and rural estates was transformed after 1875 into the residential area we know today. The process lasted more than 25 years…
READ MOREKew Green Conservation Area
News, Planning - Current
Public Consultation on Richmond Council’s draft new Kew Green Conservation Area Appraisal Richmond Council have published a new Draft Appraisal of the Kew Green Conservation Area to revise the existing Appraisal adopted in…
READ MOREKew Herbarium
News
Almost everyone in Kew must, by now, have heard or read about the proposed relocation of the Herbarium to a (yet to be constructed) science park near Reading. The Kew…
READ MOREResponse to LBRuT Consultation on Local Flood Risk Management Strategy
Environment - Current, News
Chair’s May Note to members
Kew Society
Dear Member Another very full month….and we have some special events coming up! In particular I am looking forward to meeting many Kew Society members during our ‘raise a toast’…
READ MOREThames Water Resources Management Plan 2024
Environment - Current, News
17th March 2023 The Kew Society does have concerns over the Thames Water plan to abstract water from the Thames at Teddington and replace it with treated sewage. See below…
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