WELCOME to the website of the Raynes Park and West Barnes Residents' Association, designed to inform you of current local issues and to provide a brief history of the local area and the Association. 

All our members receive our monthly magazine "The Guide", which continues to be delivered by our volunteers.

"The Guide" has local information, news, events and advertising. For more information about advertising in "The Guide", click this link.

Our Association , which is run completely by volunteers, works on behalf of our local community. We are a NON political association, welcoming everyone. 

The current membership year runs from March 2022 to February 2023 and costs the very low annual subscription fee of £3.   

Click here to contact our Treasurer and become a member.

Open Meeting - 8 October 2024

Our next Open Meeting will be in West Barnes Library, Station Road, Motspur Park, KT3 6JF, at 7:30 p.m, on Tuesday 8 October 2024. All Welcome.

Please join us for this important meeting. The committee members and local councillors will be present to update you with the latest information from around the Association’s area, and to find out what is happening at the local railway station. Jack Wharton and Ian Alberto from Network Rail will be present for the first part of the meeting.  

Light refreshments will be provided.  

AGENDA

·        Chair’s Welcome
·        Apologies for absence
·        Motspur Park Accessibility Works with Network Rail representatives
·        Toby Ewin, local Historian
·        Local Issues, members’ concerns and queries
·        Any Other Business  

We look forward to seeing our members at the meeting!

Chairman's Blog - October 2025

OPEN MEETING AT WEST BARNES LIBRARY – 8 OCTOBER 2025 at 7:30 PM

We are holding an Open Meeting at West Barnes Library on Tuesday 8th October at 7.30 pm. Do come along! We hold this autumn meeting every year in Motspur Park. Last year we had a very good turnout of residents, who were able to discuss, among other matters, the installations of the lifts at the station. As those of you who live near the station are aware, there has been a delay, and we are pleased to confirm that Jack Wharton and a colleague will be in attendance. Light refreshments and drinks will be provided. It will be an opportunity to discuss a range of local issues and to raise and share concerns or ideas.

One of the potential causes of concern will be the likely planning application for housing on the site of the gas holders, which we reported on in the last edition of The Guide. Although the holders are in the borough of Kingston, any application will impact on the Merton side of the borough boundary.

We will also be discussing the celebrations to mark the Centenary of the station next year. We hope to have a range of interesting speakers. We look forward to welcoming you there.

VERGES ON CANNON HILL COMMON

A local resident in Parkway raised the fact that while the Common itself had been beautifully cut, the verges which face Parkway and Cannon Hill Lane have been left to grow wild and out of control. We reported this to the Council on its website, and we hope that long before you read this they will have been trimmed back, as used to happen regularly. The Council’s website allows anyone to complain about any kind of matter that needs attention. Complaints and demands for action can be made anonymously, if necessary. The Council responds with an email acknowledgment, and, sometimes, a positive response. 

John Elvidge