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Planning Belmont Mosque Plan Withdrawn After 2,712 Comments The former ambulance station scheme was withdrawn on 24 August. The register logs 1,631 objections, 1,079 letters of support, and an enforcement case still open. · 5 min read Schools Sutton Schools Go Back: 3, 4 or 7 September 2026 The council's term dates say 2 September. Of 12 Sutton schools we checked, one had any pupils in. Most also take two weeks off in October, not one. · 5 min read Planning Beddington Farmlands: 61 Objections, Officers Say Yes Councillors decide tonight whether 12.6 hectares of promised acid grassland can be dropped at Beddington Farmlands. Officers say yes. 61 of 65 comments object. · 6 min read Beddington Beddington Farmlands: No Single End Date for Restoration The revised plan sets no single completion date. Each phase gets its own deadline, and the 2025 breach notice stays live until the legal agreement is signed. · 5 min read Council Sutton Street Light Reports: Bad Reply Stays Until 2027 Sutton accepts its automated 'issue closed' reply on street light reports is not acceptable, but will not replace it until the end of March 2027. · 5 min read Council Sutton Neighbourhood Fund: £295,128 Left to Allocate Sutton has £295,128 of developer money still to allocate. The Neighbourhood Fund project lists go to local committees this autumn, starting in Carshalton on Tuesday. · 5 min read What's On Sutton Heritage Open Days: One Venue, Open 12 Sept The borough has one entry in the national festival: Cheam's Lumley Chapel, free and staffed all day on 12 September. Four more sit just over the boundary. · 6 min read What's On Beddington Farmlands: 4 Free Walks, 12 and 23 Sept The warden and the bird group open the site for four free guided walks. Places must be booked, all are 18 plus, and two tours cover the pending planning bid. · 5 min read Food hygiene Sutton Food Hygiene: 39 Below a 3, and 16 Are Shops Three in four rated Sutton venues hold a 5. Of the 39 scoring below 3, sixteen are shops. Nine of those ratings have stood for over a year. · 5 min read Business Fat Phill's Sutton: Dutch Burger Chain Takes 96-98 High St Dutch burger chain Fat Phill's has taken 96-98 High Street. Sutton's food register lists it awaiting first inspection, and the brand publishes hours to 11pm. · 2 min read Licensing Sutton Licence Applications: 3 Deadlines, One Dead Link Three Sutton premises licence applications are open for comment, closing between 16 and 29 September. The council's link to the Cheam one does not work. Here it is. · 4 min read Business Bar + Block Sutton Closes to the Public on 3 September The St Nicholas Way steakhouse shuts to the public on Thursday 3 September, and so does every other Bar + Block. Premier Inn guests keep breakfast and evening meals. · 4 min read
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In practice that means the planning register, licensing notices, council reports and spending, food hygiene inspections and police crime data, read week by week and written up in ordinary language. Each fact names the document it came from and links to it, so you can go and check. The rest of our time goes on the reference pages: bin days, parking rules, council tax bands, the things that ought to take thirty seconds to look up and too often do not.

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