Residents are being invited to comment on proposals to see which you would like introduced in our local area.  These projects have been suggested in consultation with local residents’ and Friends’ groups. Funding is available from the Neighbourhood Fund. This is a levy paid by developers when they build new housing or retail space in […]

Many of you will be aware that the Council refused the planning application for a new secondary school in Rosehill Park West on the grounds of poor design including classrooms without windows. The developer appealed our decision and the government took the unprecedented decision to make the final decision. The Secretary of State agreed with […]

There will be a fair in Rosehill Park for the next two weekends, 5-6 June and 10-13 June.  It will operate from 3pm to 9pm. Notification has come very late as the fair was originally planned for Beddington Park, but the vehicles had difficulties accessing that park with some of the rides, although the organiser […]

This will hopefully be the last meeting to be held virtually, and we are all looking forward to meeting with residents face to face again. If you wish to view the meeting on the Council’s website, please go to this link, where you can also find the agenda and papers. As usual, residents can submit […]

The Conservative government has approved the new school on Rosehill Park, overturning Sutton’s decision to refuse planning permission because of the poor design, including classrooms without windows. This is despite the Minister agreeing that the design of the school does not meet Sutton’s standards, and ‘would have a harmful impact on the visual setting’ of […]

The area of Rosehill Park around the car park, by the café, is an area of high surface water flood risk.  A recent investigation shows that the culvert which takes the water from the ditch in the car park, under the Tennis Centre, and the railway line, to the back of Hurstcourt Road, is of […]

We have heard that the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, who is making the final decision on this appeal, has raised a question which will delay his decision until 25 March. The issue raised is about whether his department or the Department for Education should be the signatory to the various […]

During December 2020, a Sutton Parks poetry competition was launched asking residents to tell us how the borough’s parks and open spaces have been important to them over the lockdown period. We are delighted to see the winners of the competition. Congratulations to the three winners who are each awarded a prize of a £50 […]

We have been successful in bidding for funding to make some further improvements in Rosehill Park.  This will enable the toilets to be refurbished and the fence along Rose Hill to be repainted.  Also the Friends of Rosehill Parks were successful in a bid to clean the milestone on Rose Hill, pave the area around […]

The Planning Appeal into the proposed new school on Rosehill Park has now finished after an eight day hearing.  The Government is appealing against Sutton Council’s refusal to grant planning permission for the 8 form entry high school, with a SEN autistic school attached, on the disused All Weather pitch to the south of the […]