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WHY DOES THE TWICKENHAM COALITION GET INVOLVED?

Why does The Twickenham Coalition get involved? Short answer:  We want the best for Twickenham and we hold Richmond Council to account, to deliver what they said they will deliver in the Twickenham Riverside development.  Quite simply, they haven’t. The Coalition’s aim is to revitalise our unique and very special riverside, to strengthen the local […]

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Eel Pie Island Richmond Council Traffic and Parking Twickenham & Riverside

Transport and Air Quality Committee, 15 June 2021 (1)

Representation by The Twickenham Coalition, Part 1 – INTRODUCTION, GENERAL COMMENTS 1.  INTRODUCTION This written representation to the Transport and Air Quality Committee speaks for The Twickenham Coalition which was formed in February this year.  The Twickenham Coalition is supported by Doug Orchard as Chair of the Twickenham Society, Mac McInerny of the Heatham Alliance […]

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Eel Pie Island Richmond Council Traffic and Parking Twickenham & Riverside

Transport and Air Quality Committee, 15 June 2021 (2)

Representation by The Twickenham Coalition, Part 2 – PARKING 3.  CPZ PARKING PROPOSALS AND TOWN CENTRE CAR PARKS The report makes no reference to Richmond Council’s Parking Strategy, Redevelopment of Twickenham Riverside (anonymous and undated).  This official document states that the Highway Authority is confident it can readily and sensibly manage the displacement of the […]

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Eel Pie Island Richmond Council Traffic and Parking Twickenham & Riverside

Transport and Air Quality Committee, 15 June 2021 (3)

Representation by The Twickenham Coalition, Part 3 – ACCESS, SERVICING AND CONCLUSION 4.  ACCESS AND SERVICING PROPOSALS There are a great many questions arising from the Council Officers’ proposals, which Members will no doubt examine.  For example, motor vehicle access points and movements are indicated (Appendix 3) but pedestrian and cycling movements, shared cycle/footpaths and […]

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Local Interest News Twickenham & Riverside

Mary Wallace Theatre – QUARTERMAINE’S TERMS, Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 Jul

QUARTERMAINE’S TERMS The Richmond Shakespeare Society presents Simon Gray’s witty and intriguing look at the lives of a group of lecturers at a private college in Cambridge Dates: Saturday 17 to Saturday 24 July except Weds 21 July Performances: Contact Box Office 07484 927662 or boxoffice@rss-mwt.org.uk Where: The Mary Wallace Theatre, The Embankment, Twickenham, TW1 […]

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News Twickenham & Riverside

RFU – Twickenham Stadium Fixtures 2021/2022

Saturday 26th June 2021, KO 5:30 pm Gallagher Premiership Rugby Final 2021 – Expected attendance 10,000 Sunday 4th July 2021, KO (TBC) Summer Series, England v USA – Expected attendance (TBC) Saturday 10th July 2021, KO (TBC) Summer Series, England v Canada – Expected attendance (TBC) Saturday 6th November 2021, KO 3:15 pm (TBC) England […]

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News Twickenham & Riverside

National Beer Day 2021 on 15th June

National Beer Day is supported by the major organisations in the beer industry including the Society of Independent Brewers, the British Beer & Pub Association and the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra).  In Church Street, Twickenham, you will find several of the top hostelries in the town, including Brewery Market, a draught apothecary dispensing craft […]

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Richmond Council Town Square Twickenham & Riverside

Twickenham Riverside – Getting it right

Coalition letter to the Editor, Twickenham & Richmond Tribune There are a few, brief but important, notes of caution arising from Ben Makins’ letter in last week’s Tribune (28 May). Firstly, the writer’s ‘outside the box’ thinking presupposes amendments to the design brief produced by the RIBA and Richmond Council and formally approved two years […]

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Local Interest Twickenham & Riverside

Visit the Twickenham retreat of landscape artist J M W Turner

Ramsgate, J M W Turner c. 1824, Tate Britain Turner’s House at Sandycombe Lodge is a heritage site of local and international importance, a rural retreat built for the great British landscape artist J M W Turner during Regency times, here in Twickenham. It is also the venue of important exhibitions of Turner’s work, such […]

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Open Space & Buildings Richmond Council Town Square Twickenham & Riverside

Twickenham Riverside – What does the majority want?

(Coalition letter to the Tribune, 21 May 2021) To the Editor, Richmond & Twickenham Tribune The present scheme promoted by Richmond Council has attracted many elaborate claims.  Richmond Council are delivering what the majority of Twickenham residents have requested, the majority of Twickenham residents are very happy with this really excellent scheme and the Council […]

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