Useful local links

Council & other links for street issues…

• Main Council home page, and our Councillors (look for Twickenham Riverside ward)
• Roads, streets and pavements fault reporting: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/streets_fault_reporting
• Graffiti reporting and removal: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/graffiti
• Problems with street trees: https://www.richmond.gov.uk/services/parks_and_open_spaces/trees/report_a_problem_with_a_tree
• Council Noise line (night-time phone line open 10pm-3am): 07944 038495
• Council Customer Services – customer.services@richmond.gov.uk
• Materials on flood risk and defences

Reporting crime, anti-social behaviour + police links

• If it feels like the situation could get heated or violent very soon, or someone is in immediate danger, or you need support right away, call 999.
• For anything else, you can either call 101 or (often easier and quicker) use the Met Police website: https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/.
• To keep up with what’s happening locally, use Metengage.co.uk – enter your postcode to get to the Twickenham Riverside Safer Neighbourhood Team page.
• Met Police Twickenham Riverside Ward Officers are: PC Dean Smith; PC Sean Jaundoo; Ward Police Community Support Officer PCSO Kourosh Far; Ward Sergeant PS Jason Lawes. Email: twickenhamriverside.365group@met.police.uk. Phone: 0207 1759470. (RiBRA also has their individual mobile numbers, but these are not for sharing on websites or social media.)
• Bike-riding on pavements, jumping red lights, and other types of anti-social behaviour should be reported using this link.
  This useful guide covers a number of other types of anti-social behaviour.
• e-Bikes and e-Scooters in the Borough are provided by Forest. This Council webpage explains the scheme and gives links. Forest’s direct contacts: web: https://www.forest.me/; email: cs@humanforest.co.uk phone: 020 8157 7491; chatbot: Use Forest Chat (also available in their app).
• Investment fraud protection: links for FCA Firm Checker of authorised firms, and the FCA’s Warning List of unauthorised firms.

Local associations and amenities

• Twickenham Park Residents Association – our partner residents association, covering the part of East Twickenham to the north of Richmond Road.
• East Twickenham Neighbourhood Association (ETNA) – our local community centre, offering masses of activities.
• Deer Park School – the ‘outstanding’ primary school on Richmond Road, sharing the same building as Lidl.
• Richmond Bridge Traders Association (formerly East Twickenham Traders Association) – the association for traders in Richmond Road
• Twickenham Park Surgery – our local GP practice.
• This Council page provides a directory of the many other local services, while this site gives specifics on health and well-being.

Historical sites & information

• East Twickenham and St Margarets History Facebook group (you’ll need to request to join)
• ‘The Belgian Village on the Thames’ – all about the history of Belgian refugees who lived here in World War One, and the memorial to them in Warren Gardens (between the path along the river and Richmond Riverside flats).
• Marble Hill House – the official English Heritage site
• The Marble Hill Society – “brings together people with an interest in Marble Hill House and Park, to encourage a wider knowledge and to help English Heritage to preserve and enhance its amenities”.
• Turner’s House – Sandycombe Lodge, the house designed, built and used by the great landscape painter, J.M.W.Turner.
• Richmond Borough Art Collection

Sports & games

• Sheen Parks Tennis Cambridge Gardens – voted ‘British Tennis best Middlesex Community Venue of the Year 2018’.
• Cambridge Park Bowls Club – established in 1921.
• Richmond Bridge Club – one of the top bridge clubs in the country, sharing the Cambridge Park triangle with the bowls club.
• Marble Hill Park – football, tennis, rugby and cricket facilities

News & social media

• Next Door – a widely-used communication tool for local people, which includes an East Twickenham community.
• Richmond & Twickenham Times – in existence since 1873, once an important local paper, now has limited local news, and free daily email updates.
• Twickenham Nub News and Richmond Nub News – useful online sources of local news.
• Twickenham & Richmond Tribune – a free online community newspaper.