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1:00pm Saturday 6th September 2008
Shoppers and residents can get their first look at the blueprint for the future of Kingston town this week.
The K+20 Kingston Town Centre Area Action Plan, which was formally adopted by Kingston Council in July and will guide the future development of the town centre up to 2020, has been made public.
Earlier this year an independent planning inspector gave the K+20 Plan the go-ahead, but threw out the option of increasing the number of car parking spaces - currently 7,000.
It is the first Area Action Plan in London to get the go-ahead.
The blueprint includes proposals for major new shopping facilities, new homes and jobs, better quality offices, a hotel, and better facilities for culture, leisure and entertainment, as well as for religious, community and voluntary groups.
It also plans for improved environment and improved transport, including a new bus station, new cycle routes, improved pedestrian links and car parking. Talks are currently taking place to choose a developer to redevelop the Eden Quarter of the town, after the council's initial partner Hammerson was forced to walk away over European rules on contract tendering.
The K+20 Plan and inspector’s report are available on the Council’s website at www.kingston.gov.uk/kplus20, at public libraries and at the Guildhall.
Two safes cemented into the floor of a Kingston lock-up and stuffed with £1.2m of cash were seized in police raids.
The lodger convicted of the killing of Baby P attended a Croydon College construction course while on bail earlier this year.
A mentally ill man on day release from Tolworth Hospital had attempted suicide just weeks before he jumped to his death from the Bentall Centre car park, an has inquest heard.
A playwrite from Tooting proved every cloud has a silver lining after turning the global financial crisis into a BBC Radio 4 play
Police have raided homes in Surbiton, Kingston and Worcester Park and seized £1m cash and kilos of drugs in connection with a multimillion pound cannabis operation.
A computer shop in Balham was caught installing illegal software onto computers for customers to buy, it was announced this week.
An entrepreneur from Claygate has made it to the finals of a national awards for her edible gifts company.
The council has been accused of “making a quick buck” from the borough’s readers after raking in more than £100,000 in library fines.
Seeing a 1940s schoolboy creeping out of your fireplace is a frightening hallucination by anybody’s standards.
Two housing benefit cheats will have to pay back more than £15,000 in fraudulent claims and carry out over 300 hours of community service after they were taken to court by the council.
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