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Sutton Central councillor Cryss Mennaceur is Sutton's new deputy leader after Sam Martin stood down for family reasons. Luni Sabharwal is the new Deputy Mayor.
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Health
Royal Marsden Opens NHS Cancer Genomics Centre in Sutton
The Royal Marsden has opened the first NHS lab designed for nationwide composite biomarker testing, in Sutton. What the centre does and who it could help.
Council
Sutton Bin Complaints: 429 of 794, and 48% Were Upheld
Bins drew 429 of Sutton Council's 794 formal complaints in 2025/26, and 48% were upheld in full. Missed collections led, and total complaints rose 28%.
Schools
Sutton Grammar Pupil, 12, Made International Master by FIDE
Supratit Banerjee, a Year 8 pupil at Sutton Grammar School, has been confirmed as a chess International Master at 12. How he earned it and what comes next.
Business
Sutton Business Awards Finalists: All 36 Named
36 finalists in 12 categories, picked from 550 nominations, for the first Sutton Business Awards in years. Winners named at Oru Sutton on 12 November.
Housing
Sutton Housing Register: 2,870 Households, 211 Council Lets
2,870 Sutton households were on the housing register in March 2025; the council let 211 homes that year. Homeless families waited seven years for a three-bed.
Carshalton
Oaks Park Art Exhibition in Carshalton: Free, 6 to 12 Nov
Carshalton & Wallington Art Group shows members' work at Oaks Park Café from 6 to 12 November. Free entry; the opening evening is Friday 6 Nov, 6pm to 8pm.
Sport
Sutton United's Gander Green Lane Renamed 360 Engage Stadium
Sutton United's Gander Green Lane ground, SM1 2EY, is now the 360 Engage Stadium. Next home game: Aldershot Town, Wednesday 28 October, 7.45pm, adults £21.
Libraries
Wallington Library Turns 90: 121,000 Loans in a Year
Wallington Library opened on 3 October 1936 and lent more than 121,000 items last year, 75,000 of them for children. Its history, hours and what it offers.
Planning
Hillcroome Road Sutton: Council Plans Home for Six Families
Sutton Council wants empty 10 Hillcroome Road to house six single-parent families in temporary rooms. 15 objections so far; comments close 14 October.
Christmas
Sutton Christmas Markets: Frost Fair 5 Dec, High St TBC
Carshalton Frost Fair is Saturday 5 December, 1pm to 6pm, with three more fairs dated. The High Street Christmas market is listed but its 2026 date is not.
Parks
Sutton Splash Park Petition: Council Set to Say No on Cost
Sutton has no splash park, and 172 residents asked for one. Officers advise councillors on 8 October to say no for now on cost and look to developers.
Roads
St Barnabas Road Crossing: 12.6% Speeding, 15% Needed
Police found 12.6% of drivers speeding on St Barnabas Road, Sutton, under the 15% bar for action. A 91-name crossing petition goes to councillors on 8 October.
Sutton Online covers Sutton, Cheam, North Cheam, Carshalton, Wallington, Worcester Park, Belmont, Beddington, Rosehill, St Helier and the streets in between. Everything we publish comes off the public record for the borough, written up plainly and linked back to its source.
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.