News in Kingston

Richmond Housing Project (RHP) have recently completed a number of new affordable homes across several sites in Ham. The seven new homes are located on Clifford Road, Maguire Drive and Riverside Drive. The sites were previously home to several garages and were underutilised.

The sites were subsequently identified as an opportunity to create much needed new housing, especially homes that are fully accessible (which is the case with the bungalows that have been built).

Following the legal warning from Richmond Council, an unauthorised traveller camp has left Riverside Drive in Ham.

The unauthorised camp arrived on Wednesday (3rd March) and left yesterday afternoon before the 4pm deadline issued by the Council.

Only one Wetherspoon pub in Kingston Borough will reopen on April 12th.

Government rules mean that only outdoor hospitality can operate before May.

Each here at Kingston Nub News we aim to bring you an exciting new job in the local area.

Here is the Kingston job we have picked out this week:

Children across England head back to school on Monday March 8th.

Kingston Council have issued advice to parents to keep their children safe.

Travellers who arrived on Riverside Drive in Ham this morning have been issued with a legal request for them to they leave the site within 24 hours.

The unauthorised camp arrived today (3th March) at around 10am. As soon as the Council received reports of their arrival, officers and the parks enforcement contractor, Park Guard, were sent to visit the travellers to carry out a welfare check. Following this, they were issued with a legal eviction notice.

The cross-party group London Councils has welcomed the Chancellor's decision to extend the £20-a-week uplift to Universal Credit for six months, but describes this as the "bare minimum" needed to stop homelessness rates increasing even further.

The umbrella body, which represents all 32 boroughs and the City of London Corporation, says the government should show far greater ambition in addressing homelessness through welfare policy changes and investment in social housing.

Thousands of people across Kingston who have to leave their homes for work or to volunteer are accessing regular, rapid coronavirus tests.

The testing programme is available to anyone who cannot work from home and does not have any coronavirus symptoms.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has today revealed his budget in the House of Commons.

The budget aims to provide support during what will hopefully be the final stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A lot has been written about how air quality has improved over lockdown, as people haven't been using their cars as much to get around.

But that doesn't mean the pandemic has been good for the environment across the board.