The best ever Take Part, Take Pride community festival starts next Monday 7 July and continues until Sunday 13 July. With nearly 100 events all around the borough, the week promises to have somethi...

Sherwoods Café opens next week offering tasty food at reasonable prices, and a convenient place to relax over a cup of tea or coffee. A joint initiative of Sutton Council, Sutton Centre for In...

Proposals to link the cost of residents’ permits to the emissions of their vehicles should be shelved, an influential Sutton Council committee voted last night (24 June). Following a lengthy debat...

Sutton Council is calling on residents to tell us what they think about the new waste and recycling services. On 2 June the council introduced a range of new waste policies designed to reduce the ...

Trees across Sutton could be mapped under a proposed council strategy to protect and enhance the borough’s tree stock. Public trees in parks, schools and streets would be listed on the Sutton Coun...

Gripped by Murray-mania, make the most of the slightly warmer weather, dust off your racket and have a game of tennis in your local park. Did you know there are 55 public tennis courts in the boro...

Sutton’s second Annual Safeguarding Conference took place on Thursday 12th June at the Holiday Inn Sutton. The theme of the conference was “It’s Up To Us” with over 120 delegates in attendance in...

Olives, cheese, croissants,  there will be plenty of delicious food at Sutton town centre’s ‘Continental Festival of Food’ market. Come along and taste for yourself from Thursday 26th June to ...

Planning a party to make the most of the long days and almost summery weather? Please consider your neighbours before partying late and loudly. Sutton Council operates an out-of-hours noise abate...

A Sutton resident has been successfully prosecuted for council tax, housing benefit and income support fraud totalling over £52,000. Following a joint investigation by Sutton Council and the Depa...

Sutton Council’s Strategic Director of Adult Social Services and Housing, Dr. Adi Cooper presented over a hundred local social care workers with awards for their qualifications at a ceremony to cel...

One hundred and eighty students from across Sutton will be taking part in a special performance which will include African drumming, dancing, acting and music on Friday June 20th. The students, ag...

A £150,000 grant from Sport England has been hailed by Sutton Council as a major boost for sport participation in the borough. The cash pot will be split between four community projects over the n...

As part of its continuing efforts to drive up standards in privately rented accommodation, Sutton Council has begun to issues licences to landlords of Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO). The Hou...

Sign up, sign up, all the fun of the fair. You, your group, school or organisation can participate in Hackbridge’s first parade for 20 years. The parade will begin the Hackbridge Carnival that take...

Bollywood comes to Sutton for the start of the borough's week-long community festival, Take Part Take Pride. The Sutton celebrations begin on Monday 7 July and continue until Sunday 13 July. One of...

Find out if your family had links to the slave trade. Did you know Sutton’s economy was underpinned by the slave trade during the late 1700s and 1800s? You may be surprised what you can find out at...

One of the country's top civil servants - responsible for framing and implementing the government's policy for children and young people - visited Sutton on Thursday (12 June) to learn at first han...

June is the first time that Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month (GRTHM) will be celebrated in the UK. Sutton is marking Traveller History Month in a number of ways, including an exhibition, at the P...

Sutton Council is praising residents for an almost four-fold increase in glass recycling since the launch of kerbside collections on 2 June. In the first week of the new service collection crews p...

A quarter of Sutton Council vehicles are filling up with environmentally friendly biodiesel. Since the end of May, about 40 vehicles ranging from refuse trucks to small vans have been using 30 per...

Beddington Park Primary School in Derry Road, Beddington today unveiled its sustainable transport mural. The work was completed by pupils with the help of local artist, Simon Honey, and funded by S...

Will it be Dante’s Inferno or Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire? Firefighters in Sutton can choose from a selection of the hottest reads thanks to an innovative new scheme from Sutton Council. T...

All households on the Collingwood Estate in Sutton are being contacted about some important environmental improvement and remediation work due to take place over the next few months. This marks the...

Sutton Council is reminding residents that they are able to dispose of their garden waste at Beddington Lane during weekends and bank holidays. With the gardening season in full swing, Kimpton Par...

Sutton Council has set up a cross party advisory group to help review the new waste service.  The group consisting of two Conservative and three Lib Dem councillors will consider carefully how...

Plans for a £112.5m boost for housing improvements in Sutton moved a step closer this week with government confirmation that cash could be available from 2009. The 'Decent Homes' funding is depende...

The winning posters for a competition involving local schools in Sutton to promote the ‘Active at the Arena’ event on Saturday 19th July have been chosen. The competition, open to children and you...

Whitehall, the Tudor house in Cheam village conservation area celebrates its 30th anniversary of being open to the public on Saturday 14 June. If you want to join in the festivities between 10am an...

Beat the gloom at the petrol pumps and get on your bike – that’s the message from Smarter Travel Sutton ahead of National Bike Week (14-22 May). The cost of running an average-sized family car lik...

Are you aged between 11-18 years old and looking for something interesting to do this summer? Sign up for the first ever Sutton Summer University. The courses run from the Monday, 28 July to Frida...

Local Marie Curie Cancer Care Nurse Esther Shosanya and Sutton Councillor for Nonsuch, Kirsty Jerome, dusted off their trainers today to encourage people to take part in the second annual Devoted t...

A tea party to thank governors of Sutton’s schools for their valuable voluntary work will be taking place at Robin Hood Junior School on Wednesday 11th June. The theme of the event will be 'susta...

Sutton Council is celebrating World Environment Day (5 June) by launching its workplace travel plan. Drawn up under Smarter Travel Sutton, it will encourage staff to use sustainable transport when...

At a loose end this weekend? Need something to do over the school holidays? Sutton wildlife needs you. Sutton Council has signed up to be part of London’s Open Space and Biodiversity Records Cent...

Sutton Council is considering proposals through extensive consultation with service users, schools, parents and TfL to review and change some aspects of Special Educational Needs Transport Policy t...

The Executive Committee of Sutton Council has given the go-ahead for site preparation work to start at the Orchard Hill hospital site – the preferred site for the new £38 million Stanley Park High ...

The Sutton Carers’ Centre will celebrate Carers’ Week 2008 running from Sunday June 8th until Friday June 13th with a host of events aimed at celebrating and supporting carers. Organised by ten l...

The launch of kerbside glass collections and home composting incentives from Sutton Council have been given the thumbs up by a leading environmental organisation. Local charity BioRegional has bac...

Sutton Centre for Independent Living and Learning (SCILL) showcased its services and plans for the future at an open day today. The centre, which is an independent charity, has been open since 1994...