Due to financial pressure the car park will not now open until 10am at weekends
During May 2025, four new benches will be installed on Mitcham Common. These are replacing benches that have come to the end of their life. The locations are on the map below.
A contractor is currently undertaking acid grass clearance on 7 islands, Bidders and Golf course sub-sites. This is to maintain and enhance the important acid grass coverage.
On Good Friday parishioners of St Michael’s Church in Pollards Hill will walk their traditional ‘Way of the Cross’ procession. This year part of the route will be on Mitcham Common
Gorse to the west of 7 islands pond will be cleared as part of the acid grassland restoration program. The map below details the location. 7 islands scrub clearance map
For several months water has been seeping from the Common onto the highway. A Thames Water pipe runs under the Common near to where the water is emerging. Officers are of the view that this is the likely source of the leak. Thames Water has tested the water ponding on the road and advised that…