Local Authority

Lower Sunbury's next police panel meeting takes place in the Manning Room behind St Ignatius Church, Green Street, on Thursday May 28 at 7.30pm.

The spring round of Spelthorne Council area forums has been cancelled.

The meetings between residents and councillors arranged for March 19 at Matthew Arnold School in Staines, March 31 in Stanwell village hall, April 8 at the Salvation Army Centre in Ashford and April 28 at St Paul's College in Sunbury have been axed due to lack of interest.

The council is considering ways to boost attendance and a recommendation will be presented to the executive committee at its meeting on Wednesday, March 18.

Firefighters doused an undergrowth fire in Peregrine Road, Sunbury, on Monday March 2 at about 3.20pm.

Budget chain Premier Inn looks set to be the occupier of Kempton Point in Sunbury after permission was granted to turn the office block into a hotel.

Developer Brite Court lodged the application after it decided the nine-storey building, in Staines Road West was no longer commercially viable in its current guise.

Tennis courts in Spelthorne are to be refurbished after the borough council allocated 110,000 over the next three years.

The money will be spent resurfacing the courts in Cedars Park in Lower Sunbury, Clockhouse Lane in Ashford, the Lammas in Staines, Stanwell Recreation Ground, Fordbridge Park in Ashford, Staines Park and Bishop Duppas Park in Shepperton.

PCSO Gemma Roberts is leaving Lower Sunbury's neighbourhood police team to join the regular force and train as a police constable.

Her departure follows that of PCSO Gerry Beadle, who had to stand down for personal resons.

Beat bobbies in Spelthorne will be targeting a street in the borough every week in a bid to get to know as many residents as possible.

Every week officers from each of Spelthorne's 10 safer neighbourhood teams will be visiting a street in their area while out on the beat and calling at homes to introduce themselves, leave their contact details and speak to residents about any issues.

A fatal crash is "certain to happen" in a Sunbury business park because "lethargic" road chiefs refuse to re-paint lines on dangerous traffic junction.

That's the view of furious firms on the Brooklands Industrial Estate, Brooklands Close, who say Surrey County Council has failed to take action, despite email assurance nearly three months ago.

Street-savvy youths from Spelthorne signed a petition pledging not to carry knives and presented it to Spelthorne MP, David Wilshire, at the House of Commons last week.

More than 5,000 young people signed the petition, 'Knives Wreck Lives' - organised by the Spelthorne Youth Council - which launched on October 27 and presented their pledges to their local MP on Tuesday, December 9.

Spelthorne Council is set to spend £100,000 on valuation and condition surveys of all the land and buildings it owns.

Approximately £70,000-80,000 has been earmarked by council officers for the condition survey to help decide what work needs doing and between £20,000-30,000 has been set aside to ascertain the rental value of council properties.