Morning. Victoria Road shuts today, Ditton Road and Kingsdowne Road swap places, and tomorrow five bus routes leave Hook Road. Also: a back way round the Chiltern Drive hill, and a line in the London Plan that reads a lot like Seething Wells.

From today: Victoria Road is closed at the Brighton Road junction, twenty-four hours a day, until Monday the 21st. Raised table works.

Also from today, going by UK Power Networks' letter: Ditton Road reopens, but only outbound to Ewell Road, and Kingsdowne Road closes at the Ewell Road end. That runs to the 28th.

From 06:00 tomorrow until 23:00 on Thursday the 24th, the 71, 465, 671, K4 and N65 are diverted off Hook Road. The short version of where to wait: Upper Brighton Road / Ditton Road for the 71, 671, N65 and 465; Hook Road / Ash Tree Close or Hook Parade for the K4. Saturday's issue has the full list.

A correction. On Saturday I said Hook Road was on no council roadworks list. It is, as one long entry: UK Power Networks cabling from Upper Brighton Road to the Hook roundabout, 15 March to 25 October. What the list doesn't show is this ten-day stretch or the bus diversion.

Des wants to fix the ride from Berrylands station to the Hogsmill, and specifically the climb up Chiltern Drive.

There is a lane, he says, that follows the railway behind the houses on Rose Walk — it's how they reach their garages — then a narrow path through the brambles onto the meadow and along to the Hogsmill path. No hill at all, and plenty of blackberries at the moment. It also has a barrier across it and a sign calling it a private road. You can get a bike under the barrier. He would rather nobody had to.

His case: make it an official route and you get a traffic-free line from Kingston, along Lower Marsh Lane, behind Rose Walk, up the Hogsmill to the A3 subway and on to Malden Manor. He thinks the residents would gain too, with easier access to those garages.

Whether the residents agree is the real question. If you live on Rose Walk, or know who owns that lane, reply — I'll print both sides.

The Mayor's draft London Plan is open for comments until 5pm on Thursday 15 October. The Kingston Independent Residents Group has set out eight changes it wants, and two land close to home.

First, it wants the plan to say plainly that South Chessington is only a possible future location, so the label can't be read as a go-ahead to release Green Belt there early. Second, it wants the protection for Metropolitan Open Land, which includes the Seething Wells filter beds, tightened “so that lack of public access cannot itself become a route to the loss” of that land.

Anyone can respond at consult.london.gov.uk/londonplan. Tilly O'Brien has the other six at Kingston Nub News.

Tuesday: Empty Chairs at the Prince of Wales, 7pm, free · the Proper Blokes Club walk-and-talk for men, from the Glenbuck Road entrance of the station, 6.30, free · Birds of the Horn of Africa at St Matthew's school, 7.30 · drawing at the Lamb, 7.30, £10.

Wednesday: a Parkinson's talk at Glenmore House, noon · a bat walk from St Andrew's Square, 7pm · the Hogsmill talk at Tiffin, 7pm, free · Andrew Lownie, biographer of the former Prince Andrew, at St Mary's, Long Ditton, 7.30, £10 · Planning Committee, 7.30, nothing of ours.

Thursday: Celebrate Surbiton on the station forecourt, 4.30. Friday: Namaste Kingston's Nepal flood relief dinner at Hollyfield School, 6.30.

Saturday: the farmers' market on Maple Road, 9 to 1 · a guided tour of Surbiton from the station, 11am · a coffee morning for veterans at the British Legion on Hollyfield Road, 11.30 · Leggomen at the Flyer, 9pm. And no trains through New Malden all weekend; replacement buses run from Clapham Junction to Surbiton and to Chessington South. Sunday is the last day to comment on a new licence for Rose Restaurant, 41 Tolworth Broadway: licensing@kingston.gov.uk.

Matthew joined over the weekend on a friend's recommendation. Dominic signed up for the transport news, so, Dominic, today's issue is mostly for you.

Back tomorrow.

Mike