Bench Installations Spring 2025
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.
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.
Please see the attached following links to a borough-wide public consultation that has now gone live concerning proposed new dog control measures in Merton. The proposals will have significant impacts for the management of dogs in our parks and greenspaces for some years to come. https://www.merton.gov.uk/communities-and-neighbourhoods/stray-lost-and-dangerous-dogs/dog-control-orders – Web page https://consult.merton.gov.uk/KMS/dmart.aspx?noip=1&strTab=PublicDMart&PageType=item&DMartId=3004 – Survey Please note the…
A new bin has been installed on the footpath linking Brookmead Road and Redhouse Road (see photo). This is initially for a trial period. If the bin gets used for dumping domestic rubbish, it will be removed. The bin near Southampton Gardens has been removed because it was being used for dumping domestic rubbish.
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
The Conservators have agreed to the construction of a new raised informal pedestrian crossing to the Common. Further details are provided at the link below
The roads around Mitcham Common will have their verges flailed on 21st-22nd June.
The following tree works will be carried out in the near future: Location 1: Reduce the height of 3 trees Locations 2 and 3: Fell several groups of small trees Locations 4 and 5: Remedial work to dead trees leaving 2m high monolith Location 6: Remedial work to low-hanging large tree branch