Community effort to purchase Udney Park playing fields | Richmond and Twickenham Times
Twickenham MP Munira Wilson has lent her support to a community bid to purchase Udney Park playing fields for local people and sports groups. Last year a proposal to build 107 extra-care housing units, a GP surgery and sports facilities on the playing fields in Teddington was thrown out by a planning inspector after an appeal inquiry. In February, owners and developers Quantum told Richmond Council that they intended to sell the site. But as the fields are an Asset of Community Value (ACV) they can legally only be sold to community groups over the next six months. That’s where Jo...