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If you can contribute more, please do so. Subscriptions can be paid via our website www.residents-association.com; subscriptions (in an envelope Tel: 01932 866471 / 868523 please) may be left at Boots Pharmacy, 14 High Street, Thames Ditton or Thorkhill Road Pharmacy, 94 Thorkhill Road, Thames Ditton. Or mail to Membership Secretary Peter Haynes at 6 Onslow Gardens, [email protected] • www.tjbathrooms.co.uk Thames Ditton KT7 0JJ. Thank you. Published by the Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents’ Association FREE DESIGN & PLANNING SERVICE Printed by Impress Print Services Ltd., Unit 10, 19 Lyon Road, Hersham, Walton on Thames, Surrey KT12 3PU 3 8503.01_TDT.indd 3 07/03/2017 08:08 FEEL FITTER, HEALTHIER & HAPPIER WITH COLETS! Plus, to get you started, try our 8-week GET FIT STAY FIT programme - free as part of your membership. BRAND NEW NEW UPGRADED FUNCTIONAL CHANGING STUDIOS TRAINING ROOMS STUDIO CALL NOW TO BOOK YOUR FREE TRIAL!* *Terms and conditions apply. Available to new Peak and Daytime members only. Offer ends 31.01.2017. Call now, or come in for a chat. 020 8398 7108 St Nicholas Road • Thames Ditton • KT7 0PW *Terms and conditions apply. 4 8503.01_TDT.indd 4 07/03/2017 08:08 RESIDENTS’ FEEL FITTER, ASSOCIATION Annual General Meeting Thames Ditton Councillors HEALTHIER 8.00 pm on 21 March 2017 Tricia W. Bland, at Vera Fletcher Hall 29 Station Road, Thames Ditton 020 8339 0485 Agenda: Ruth Lyon, 1. Minutes of the 2016 AGM Meeting and 11 Riversdale Road, Thames Ditton 020 8398 3396 matters arising therefrom Karen Randolph, Deepfield, Giggs Hill Road, & HAPPIER 2. Chairman’s Annual Report; receive, Thames Ditton 020 8398 5005 discuss and adopt the Annual Report for 2016-2017 Hinchley Wood & Weston Green Councillors 3. Accounts: To receive the accounts for the Tannia Shipley, ‘Clinton House’ WITH COLETS! year ended 31 December 2016 27 Lower Green Road, Esher 020 8398 2484 4. 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Tuesday 21 March 2017 8pm (AGM), Tuesday 25 April – Vera Fletcher Hall, Thames Ditton 020 8398 7108 Tuesday 20 June 2017 8pm – All Saints, Weston Green All who live or work locally are welcome St Nicholas Road • Thames Ditton • KT7 0PW *Terms and conditions apply. 5 8503.01_TDT.indd 5 07/03/2017 08:08 A thriving independent co-educational day school for children aged three to eleven K i n d e r g a r t e n Open Morning: Specialist teaching in Music, Friday 3rd March, French and Games 9.30 - 10.45am Optional afternoon sessions including Forest School, Call 020 8398 2778 Yoga and Cookery to book your place Extended days available Tel: 020 8398 2778 | E-mail: [email protected] www.westongreenschool.org.uk Weston Green Road, Thames Ditton, KT7 0JN 6 8503.01_TDT.indd 6 07/03/2017 08:08 A thriving independent co-educational News from the Residents’ Association day school for children aged three to eleven to end-February Other beneficial adjust ments have also g been made and these K i n d e r a r t e n are detailed in the new timetables, available at www.surreycc.gov.uk. Thank you to all those residents who took the time to campaign with us to ensure that we have a bus service fit for purpose. We will need to continue to be vigilant as all SCC bus contracts are up for ‘Save our buses’ petition arriving at County Hall renewal in August. The best way to save our bus service is to Residents’ power – saving our use it – see what journeys you could make buses! by bus! The campaign to Save Our Buses has been Responding to the Local Plan successful. When Surrey County Council consultation (SCC) first announced cuts to local bus Open Morning: The Residents’ Association has submitted services there were NO buses to Surbiton a detailed letter in response to the strategic Specialist teaching in Music, Friday 3rd March, in the new timetable. After an outcry from consultation on the Local Plan saying it French and Games the RA and residents, SCC revised the 9.30 - 10.45am does not believe the case has been made timetabling to include one outward journey Optional afternoon sessions for allowing development in Green Belt to Surbiton and two return journeys to including Forest School, Areas and, in particular, the land described Call 020 8398 2778 Thames Ditton and agreed to review these Yoga and Cookery as area 58 (Long Ditton Green Belt) which arrangements with the new operator at the to book your place we believe represents an outstanding Extended days available earliest opportunity. Meanwhile the RA example of what the Green Belt was continued to lobby for an improved service designated for in terms of two of the five as it was clear that the initial offering was purposes set out in the National Planning inadequate. 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