Carshalton Central ward Councillors Hamish Pollock and Jill Whitehead attended a parks friends group meeting at the Civic Offices, in Sutton, last week. It was a well attended meeting – about 35 residents/representatives of various local parks in the borough turned up to hear from the council’s parks department’s officers about developments in the borough’s parks. The issues discussed included the maintenance of trees in parks, playgrounds, play equipment, multi-gyms, travellers using parks, bulb-planting campaigns, and parks’ security. 

Representatives from Friends of Carshalton Park and Friends of The Grove turned up, both groups of which Hamish is the fairly newly-elected chairman!

Jill (in pink top) and the council's parks officers discussing issues last week