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THE site has historic leisure use. Why is the Council stealing leisure land for commercial development?

April 26, 2017Commercial council Development historic land leisure site stealing

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THE site has historic leisure use. Why is the Council stealing leisure land for commercial development?

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• Rubbish! J M Lee’s ‘The Making of Modern Twickenham’ [Historical Publications, 2005; in the public library] describes [pp. 72-75] how the then Municipal Council came to buy Richmond House in 1922-4 ‘for the construction of public buildings’ and to widen King Street for trolley buses. The front of the site was sold off for commercial development and the remnant lay unused until it was developed as a swimming pool in 1935.