Sunbury Matters Articles

The Spelthorne and Runnymede Drama Festi-val 2021 will be back at Riverside Arts Centre between October 19 – 23rd with Paul Fowler returning as Adjudicator. It will be wonderful to watch live performanc-es again. There will be up to ten one act plays during the week competing for the various trophies. Last year, the festival […]

Many residents have observed the appalling state of the area surrounding the recently opened Benwell Phase 1 building at the top of Green Street. Before opening, the council conducting ‘landscaping’ activities, which comprised cutting down hedges, bushes and shrubs, in fact cutting down most green things with the exception of the trees with TPO’s on

Haven’t we missed live performances?! The restrictions of lockdowns have made us realise how much we took for granted.  I consider myself lucky to have attended the first of the Riverside Arts Centre Showcase come back events re-cently. This afternoon tea concert featured Mengyang Pan (pictured), a pianist of international class and re-nown. She has

Housing Need and the Green Belt Few subjects have been the cause of greater consternation, confusion (and occasionally suspicion) in recent years than the Council’s position in relation to housing need and the proposed development of certain parcels of green belt. In answer to a question at a recent meeting of the full Council, Cllr.

By Monica Chard  With so many events cancelled, even in recent months, we all need some fun. So the Lower Sunbury Business Community is starting to make plans for CHRISTMAS! We know how much you all love the Lower Sunbury Christ-mas market, so we are going to be running it again this year. Put the

Following Nick Pollard’s article in the September 2021 issue of Sunbury Matters, we received an interesting email from reader Richard Wood. He was intrigued by the reference to the telephone number of the Sunbury bank as Sunbury 4. He commented “I was a plumber until retirement and many years ago I removed a lid over

By Monica Chard  You will most probably have heard about the impending cut to Universal Credit, scheduled for early October. A reduction of £20 per week may not sound huge to many of us, but to some it will make the differ-ence between being able to feed a family, or not.  The Trussell Trust predicts

SUNBURY REMEMBERS  2021 marks 100 years of the Royal British Le-gion support-ing the armed forces community. It is also 100 years since the start of The Poppy Appeal.  Mel Searle from the Royal British Legion Sunbury Branch togeth-er with others from the branch and a small group of volunteers from the com-munity are working to

In line with national guidance, our infection prevention control guidelines and hospital visiting guidance remain in place for all staff and visitors in order to prevent Covid 19 transmission within our hospitals. Across our hospital sites, there has been no change to our current Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures or visiting re-strictions. We continue

When local resident Scott Chandler bought his puppy Mabel in May 2018, little did he know it would result in a place in the Great South Run. Scott explains  “I used to walk Mabel around London Irish and regularly saw the Park Run taking place on Satur-day mornings. That inspired me to firstly walk quicker

By Mike Bodnar (photos by Mike Bodnar)  The groan of disappointment when the Sunbury Regatta was cancelled for the second year running was almost audible across the community. Covid had once again scuppered the annual event, along with many others.  But – as anyone who was near Sunbury Court Island and its backwater in mid-August

As the summer holidays come to a close and the restrictions of the last 18 months are finally lifting we can be left with a mix of emotions, it is time to get back to where we were before but perhaps with a little more motivation and focus on our wellbeing.  Mental health is no