Mr A P Rogers, writing from Chessington, is right.
Chessington World of Adventures should, as part of what I understand to be a massive expansion of its activities, be required to provide an adequate railway station on its site.
It may surprise some to know the line now terminating at Chessington South was always intended to run through to Leatherhead, joining up with the existing lines there.
For many years, empty railway stock and wagons were stored at the park (right opposite the then Chessington Zoo) before the Second World War and the town and country plannings acts and Green Belt stopped what would have become an urban sprawl.
If we are to have the urban sprawl by increment, combine it with a substantial park-and-ride and train station run and paid for by the developer.
The area was once part of the now defunct Surbiton Rural District Council, later Surbiton borough and now Kingston borough. By any logic, it ought naturally to be part of Epsom borough, or Mole Valley, both of which would be better focused on the overall needs of Greater London.
S J HAWES
Park Road
New Malden
May 30, 2003 10:00
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