The Latest Breaking News from Richmond Council

London council rejects filming request for Thames Water 'hell-bent on destroying borough'

Council leader hits out at filming request using ‘the beautiful borough that they are hell-bent on destroying’

Evening Standard · Oct 17

London schools crisis: Primary in Richmond latest to face closure due to drop in pupil numbers

Around 90 schools have closed or merged across London over the past five years due to falling pupil numbers in the capital

Evening Standard · Oct 10

Cash-strapped London council reveals plan to cut spending by £39million

Richmond Council will make cuts as it battles with a huge reduction in funding as more cash is given to areas of the country with higher deprivation

Evening Standard · Oct 1

RFU renews bid for concerts from world's biggest artists at Twickenham

The Rugby Football Union wants to hold 15 major non-sporting events annually at the stadium in south west London

Evening Standard · May 16

Controversial plans to build huge school on site of old south London brewery set to be scrapped

Livingstone Academy West London was planned as part of the £1.3 billion regeneration of the former Stag Brewery site in Mortlake

Evening Standard · Jan 29

'Prioritise the living over dead': Fury over plans to turn London allotments into graveyard

It comes after Richmond Council’s plans to extend Teddington Cemetery were approved

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

London community left devastated after much-loved tree is felled by mistake

Contractors cut down a tree in Richmond, mistaking it for a tree on a street with the same name in Ealing

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2025

South London council plans legal action against Sadiq Khan and Met Police over closure of last police station

Richmond Council said the decision to close the front counter at Twickenham Police Station had been taken without consultation

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2025

London borough could face bin strike as refuse workers back industrial action

Binmen are locked in a pay dispute that could see waste go uncollected in south London

Evening Standard · Oct 23, 2025

Council U-turn after woman issued £150 fine for pouring coffee down drain in London street

Burcu Yesilyurt called the fine ‘quite unfair’

The Independent UK · Oct 22, 2025