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It covers an area of 43 km 2 17 sq mi and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It borders the London Borough of Croydon to the east, the London Borough of Merton to the north and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to the north-west; it also borders the Surrey boroughs of Epsom and Ewell and Reigate and Banstead to the west and south respectively.

The local authority is Sutton London Borough Council. Its principal town is the eponymous Sutton. The Borough has some of the schools with the best results in the country. Low levels of recorded crime are a feature of the borough, being among the lowest in London. The Family Hotspots Report, on the best places in England and Wales for families to live, placed three areas within the borough among the top 10 places in London.

In , a survey by eMoov Property Hot Spot Index found Sutton to be the easiest place in the country in which to sell a property.

The London Borough of Sutton was one of the four “vanguard areas” selected in for the Big Society initiative. The borough was formed in by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Sutton and Cheam with the Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington and Carshalton Urban District which had all previously been part of Surrey. The London Borough of Sutton was once made up of rural villages, associated with feudal and royal estates. The “village feel” persists, and places in the borough such as Carshalton, Cheam and Belmont continue to be referred to as villages.

The historic development of the borough is reflected in the number of heritage areas designated as conservation areas and as areas of special local character. It hosts live performances of blues, Americana , folk and roots music.

In July the venue became the country’s first grassroots music venue to be certified as carbon neutral. A wide variety of measures have been put in place to achieve neutrality. With material ranging from Shakespeare to Chekov to panto and children’s favourites, the theatre’s aim was to balance popularity with quality.

The theatre also served as a concert venue for local bands and played host to the popular local Rockshot festival. The theatre is named after the man who led the campaign to open the Secombe Theatre, Sutton , listed below. The company plans a range of events, including music, film and theatre. The theatre was opened by Sir Harry, who lived in Sutton for over 30 years of his life.

The Secombe Theatre is operated in conjunction with the Charles Cryer Studio Theatre, named after the man who led the campaign to open the Secombe Theatre. The Charles Cryer Theatre is in a converted hall in nearby Carshalton — see entry above.

Productions at the Secombe have ranged in content from modern productions to new twists on older, more established plays. Some productions have been produced locally, while others have come as part of touring groups. From time to time comedians and musicians have appeared at the theatre.

In , because of local council budget cuts, the venue was, along with its sister theatre, the Charles Cryer Theatre in Carshalton , identified by the Theatre Trust as one of 33 theatres in the country for inclusion on its “At Risk” register. The council worked with the Theatres Trust and Sutton Centre for Voluntary Services to help bidders through the bidding process. Beddington Park is the location of Carew Manor which was the home of the Beddington branch of the Carew family.

The Grade I listed great hall, [34] which boasts a fine hammerbeam roof , survives from the Tudor house along with part of the early 18th-century orangery built around the orange trees planted by Sir Francis Carew in the 16th century and claimed to be the first in England.

It contains an organ screen by William Morris. The church is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: [36].

The River Wandle is a 9 miles 14 km long river which flows through four southwest London boroughs, including Sutton. The river changed from being a mainly rural one lined with a scattering of watermills at the beginning of the 19th century to a heavily built-up one by the s. In the second half of the 20th century the river changed again, as the local authorities made improvements to its visual appearance and restored it as a habitat for wildlife.

Dickinson’s Arts and Crafts style interior was influenced by John Ruskin and textile designer and artist William Morris. The house contains many of his art works. Admission is free and the house is open 1.

It is the largest library in the borough. Originally opened in , it was extensively refurbished in to meet changing customer needs. It was the first public library to appoint a library writer-in-residence; the first to establish a CD and video lending library; and the first to offer a full public library service on Sundays. Its key feature — the lifezone — is a virtual street, a room with screens on all walls showing real-life scenes from Sutton’s streets.

Honeywood is a large house at the western end of Carshalton Ponds. At its earliest it dates from the 17th century but has been much extended and restored, particularly in the period to when a large Edwardian wing was added to the south side. It now houses the London Borough of Sutton’s main Museum and has a local history collection, including objects that date back to the Bronze Age. The museum has recently been refurbished, reopening in May with enhanced features.

Among others improvements, there are now expanded displays about the river Wandle and its influence on the life of the area, including an interactive map. Arts Network Sutton “promotes, champions, nurtures and acts as a voice for the arts” in the borough.

It co-ordinates the arts locally and works together with regional and national arts bodies, informs the local arts community about arts initiatives, seeks out funding for local projects and runs events. There are a number of examples of public art in Sutton town centre, ranging from building-height murals, to sculptures to an armillary. These are all fully described in the article on the town of Sutton itself. Of particular borough-wide note is one of the murals, which is in the form of a mosaic measuring 9 metres 30 feet in height and 5 metres 16 feet approximately in width, and covering the whole of a three-storey wall in the town square near the Waterstones bookshop.

It was made from vitreous ceramic tesserae small tiles made of glass and clay , and put in place in It was commissioned to celebrate Sutton’s heritage, and shows several aspects of the borough’s heritage and local history in a geometric pattern of nineteen panels. Other panels depict armorial bearers from the old local families, as well as industrial and architectural heritage. Whitehall is a timber framed and weatherboarded house in the centre of Cheam village. It was originally built in about as a wattle and daub yeoman farmer’s house but has been much extended.

The external weatherboarded appearance dates from the 18th century. In the garden there is a medieval well which served an earlier building on the site. Now an historic house museum , the building features a period kitchen, and house details from the Georgian , Victorian and Edwardian eras. It will reopen in with improved facilities. Nonsuch Mansion is a Gothic revival mansion within Nonsuch Park.

The service wing is occasionally open to the public. It is a popular place for wedding receptions, as it is available for hire. In medieval times it was part of the three thousand acre manor of Cuddington. The mansion was originally built in — by Joseph Thompson and later bought by Samuel Farmer in He employed Jeffry Wyattville to rebuild it in a Tudor Gothic style in — Farmer was succeeded by his grandson in under whom the gardens became famous. Built within the north porch of the mansion is a block from the original Nonsuch Palace that bears an inscription which means ” Henry VIII in the 35th year of His reign.

The main local government of the borough is Sutton London Borough Council. The Council has had a Liberal Democrat administration since From to Conservatives administered the council.

At the London local elections the Liberal Democrats returned 43 councillors, the Conservatives 11 and the Labour Party lost all of its seats on the Council. At the local elections , three independents led by former Liberal Democrat councillor Nick Mattey won Beddington North ward after campaigning against the Council’s controversial plans to build a waste incinerator as part of a contract with Viridor.

The Liberal Democrats lost a further nine seats to the Conservatives. One seat in Nonsuch ward was decided by a coin toss, which was won by the Conservatives. Councillor Ruth Dombey is the Leader of the Council. Sutton is divided into two parliamentary constituencies, Sutton and Cheam and Carshalton and Wallington with one member of Parliament each:.

As the London Assembly has eleven London-wide members from all four main parties, the borough shares its geographical London Assembly member with neighbouring Croydon , in its elections which began in and take place with the election of the Mayor of London , a Conservative Assembly member has gained a large majority in other words it is arguably a safe seat.

Sutton was represented in the European Parliament by the London constituency. The proportion of Black, Asian and ethnic minorities in general living in the borough has almost doubled each decade since in Council data put the non white population at White British is the largest ethnic group at The Filipino community is the largest foreign-born population in Sutton, closely followed by the Sri-Lankan Tamil community.

The London Borough of Sutton was one of the four “vanguard areas” selected in for the Government’s Big Society initiative. Sutton was chosen because of its reputation for having a strong sense of community, its active voluntary sector and its track record of devolving power to its neighbourhoods. The London Borough of Sutton has some schools at both primary and secondary levels which perform exceptionally well. Five of the state secondary schools are grammar schools. In May it was announced that grammar schools in the borough planned to set aside a number of additional places specifically for Sutton borough pupils.

Nonsuch High School for Girls and Sutton Grammar School for Boys had already agreed this new policy at the time of the announcement, while the other three grammar schools in the borough were set to follow suit.

The London Borough of Sutton is home to a number of notable environmental projects, including the following. It uses a number of innovative technologies to enable it to operate with zero energy use.

It was designed by the architect Bill Dunster to support a more sustainable lifestyle. The 99 homes, and 1, square metres of work space were built between and It is the UK’s largest and first carbon-neutral eco-community.

The buildings are constructed of materials that store heat during warm conditions and release heat at cooler times, and where possible, they have been built from natural, recycled or reclaimed materials. The first residents moved in to the Helios Road part of the development during March In conventional energy generation, the heat that is produced as a by-product of generating electricity is lost.

With CHP technology, this heat can be harnessed and put to use. At BedZED, the heat from the CHP provides hot water, which is distributed around the site via a district heating system of super-insulated pipes.