A message from ElBruté's head honcho, Gareth Robertos. It's decision time: car park or Riverside Park & Town Square? Green or grey? People or vehicles? Life or stagnation? Twickenham or bust? You decide...

I have written today to the Chair of Twickenham Riverside Trust raising serious questions, not only over their recent decisions, but more broadly on their management. I share my letter here in the interests of transparency: tinyurl.com/f82r6vfr

I shared my letter to Twickenham Riverside Trust yesterday. The🐘in the room is where is the Trust's financial plan to meet its legal obligations after May 2024 if the land exchange doesn't happen? When will it be published? Perhaps luke or Ali Donnelly can help.

Cllr. James Chard 🇺🇦 🔶 luke Hi James. As per our chair's reply to you - the Trust will reply to your letter as soon as we can, mindful that of course all of us are volunteers. I myself am on maternity leave & don't believe exchanges on social media are the right or respectful forum for this. Cheers

Ali Donnelly Cllr. James Chard 🇺🇦 🔶 luke Hi Ali, apart from objecting to the Council's planning app & CPO Twickenham residents haven't got a clue what the Trust stands for or does. It appears your sole objective is to prevent change to the ugly paving & artificial grass of DJG, and to riverfront parking. Any positivity?

jamo dutton Twickenham Nub News Yes, they're trying to protect the last lot's temporary garden makeover scheme from significant improvement by the current lot.

Brigitte Cllr. James Chard 🇺🇦 🔶 Twickenham Nub News Yes, you're correct Brigitte. There are two overlapping elements to objections to the Council's plans & CPO 1. Political: from the Tories who set up the temporary & inadequate DJGardens 2. Car-Centric Eelpielanders: who selfishly want to retain 'their' riverfront parking spaces

This week is a big one in the long running saga of Twickenham Riverside. Will it be an important milestone in redeveloping the site... or... will we go back round in a circle again? The @lbrut scheme goes to planning this week. 1/n 🧵 #twickenham #twickenhamriverside #lbrut

The 'current' scheme came out of El Brute consultations back in the pre-covid days and was developed by Hopkins Architects. It has a mix of open space, commercial and residential buildings and gets rid of parking directly in front of the river. richmond.gov.uk/twickenham_red… 2/n

Yeahhhh! Let's have a worthless, unscientific poll about Twickenham Riverside development. #twickenhamriverside 11/n

twickenham tweets Richmond Council While their at it…can we start up Twick’nHam Bridge again. I was so excited by that

Opinion piece by guest writer Deon Lombard – a supporter of Richmond Council's plan to redevelop Twickenham Riverside twickenham.nub.news/news/opinion/t…

Well done Gareth and Cllr. James Chard 🇺🇦 🔶 plus other cllrs & officers for Getting Riverside Done (on paper at least). And also to all of our team and others who've campaigned since Summer 2017, especially Jacobus Lombard Brigitte @CathyBCoach twickerman 🙃 🏖️ 🚵 🌴🛶 twickenham tweets Stephen Laughton 🎗️🇺🇦...

The Planning Inspector has ruled in #Richmond Council’s favour over Diamond Jubilee Gardens. radiojackie.com/the-planning-i…

The Planning Inspectorate has approved the Council's use of Compulsory Purchase Powers to acquire land within Diamond Jubilee Gardens. This will enable us to press ahead with redeveloping the riverside & providing a new heart for Twickenham. Read more ⬇️ orlo.uk/QjWfI

What a relief that the Trust have finally stopped wasting time and money opposing the Council's excellent Riverside scheme. Is there any future for the Riverside Trust???

In case you're wondering where all LBRUT's Tory councillors went...

Great news. Progress. #parknotcarpark