http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/save-the-spring-grove.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:12 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18090920?utm_medium=rss Sun, 2 Nov 2014 06:18:12 UTC 18090920 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/18046426?utm_medium=rss Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:27:28 UTC 18046426 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17914840?utm_medium=rss Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:12:56 UTC 17914840 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17865144?utm_medium=rss We do not need another gastropub in Kingston

]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 03:50:41 UTC 17865144 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17847234?utm_medium=rss such a shame

]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2014 01:46:34 UTC 17847234 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17846754?utm_medium=rss The Spring Grove is a testament to British culture. So many pubs have been lost, why affect this one as well and lose its personality forever?

]]> Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:07:21 UTC 17846754 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17845287?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2014 09:39:06 UTC 17845287 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843393?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:39:42 UTC 17843393 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843344?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:09:57 UTC 17843344 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843334?utm_medium=rss Please keep our pub, it is the only place for miles we can watch the All Blacks thrash the UK in rugby. ;-)

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 04:01:42 UTC 17843334 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17843244?utm_medium=rss i love the spring grove. best pub in kingston

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 03:10:23 UTC 17843244 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17842908?utm_medium=rss It's such a shame that this once favourite family destination where our friends would meet with their children no longer has the children's play area. The Spring Grove is a traditional family pub that should not be ruined by this capitalist trend of destroying community spaces. Oh and having dined there recently there's no point in having a Gastro menu when it is so poorly executed. Save Our Pubs!

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:58:10 UTC 17842908 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17842836?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:17:13 UTC 17842836 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17842811?utm_medium=rss Please do not turn this place into a restaurant. Kingston is losing far too many traditional pubs. The Spring Grove was always a friendly community pub that drew in decent sized good natured crowds for sporting events. Please don't destroy this!

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:02:10 UTC 17842811 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17842372?utm_medium=rss Sun, 14 Sep 2014 07:52:44 UTC 17842372 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17842256?utm_medium=rss Do not turn the pub into an expensive gastro pub. Keep food simple, watch out your bar prices (a bit high already) and keep and improve the kids playground, the only one available locally hence our many lunches at the Spring Grove.... or you will lose my custom and that of my friends. Thank you

]]> Sun, 14 Sep 2014 06:56:38 UTC 17842256 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17841189?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Sep 2014 05:23:40 UTC 17841189 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17841020?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Sep 2014 03:28:32 UTC 17841020 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17832185?utm_medium=rss What makes the Spring Grove so special is that it isn't snazzy and snazzed up like other local pubs. It has an atmosphere and personality because it has it's own character. It is such a diverse and friendly place and I fear what changes will do to that.

]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2014 03:26:39 UTC 17832185 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17818969?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Sep 2014 09:45:18 UTC 17818969 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17815019?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2014 01:53:02 UTC 17815019 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17814909?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:52:32 UTC 17814909 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17814900?utm_medium=rss I live in the area and work at the local Kingston University. This is not only an important pub for locals but is also a crucial social resource for staff at KU. The KU staff in particular are a crucial customer base who will likely go elsewhere (probably the Antelope) if these plans proceed.

]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:49:41 UTC 17814900 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17814887?utm_medium=rss Don't turn the Spring Grove into a quality eatery with the misguided expectation that people will flock to eat there. It works fantastically as a pub with great food, where all walks of people gather to eat, drink and watch sport. Don't spoil it.

]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2014 12:42:40 UTC 17814887 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17813970?utm_medium=rss A great pub, which although no longer local since moving to north kingston we still make the effort to visit. Best atmosphere of a local pub in Kingston.

]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2014 03:08:35 UTC 17813970 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17812615?utm_medium=rss Discovered the Spring Grove just a couple of months ago despite living in Surbiton for the last 6 years!
I love it as it is one of the last pubs left that you can still call a pub. If you 'trendify' it, you will loose this customer, amongst others.

]]> Thu, 4 Sep 2014 01:44:16 UTC 17812615 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17809081?utm_medium=rss Wed, 3 Sep 2014 06:31:55 UTC 17809081 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17808522?utm_medium=rss In it's previous incarnation as a traditional pub where you could watch sports, I was a regular visitor. Under the new incarnation as basically nothing more than a restaurant, I will not be bothered to make the journey to go. X

]]> Wed, 3 Sep 2014 12:10:25 UTC 17808522 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17806852?utm_medium=rss This change shows a lack of understanding of the role of this pub in the local community. Uniquely it serves the requirements of sports fans, students, parents and families of the local school. It is not dominated by the Sky Sports, as bar staff use the screens according to demand, but when the big match is on, there is a great atmosphere and it's a great place to catch up with friends and neighbours. Soon every table will be laid for diners, leaving no room to meet for a drink.

]]> Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:18:55 UTC 17806852 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17805883?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Sep 2014 08:00:59 UTC 17805883 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17805772?utm_medium=rss I love my local because it is still a local. Its a great place to watch iconic sporting events like the World Cup etc with friends. Good quiz night and nice outdoor space on a summer evening. Do it up by all means but concentrate on the good beer offerings rather than trying to turn it into a gastro pub. It will close after one year as so many others have.

]]> Tue, 2 Sep 2014 07:00:36 UTC 17805772 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17804571?utm_medium=rss There are enough gastro pubs and too few actually pubs around! Having sky sports has now become a unique selling point as so few pubs have it, bad move getting rid of it I think!

]]> Mon, 1 Sep 2014 04:12:13 UTC 17804571 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17804528?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Sep 2014 03:55:39 UTC 17804528 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17804012?utm_medium=rss The Spring Grove is a place I enjoy a beer with mates, watch sport and am happy to eat good pub food as well. Sport and food can comfortably sit together without spoiling need any refurbished atmosphere. The sport does not need to be in every room either. Common sense should prevail!

]]> Mon, 1 Sep 2014 12:04:57 UTC 17804012 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17803700?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Sep 2014 08:47:06 UTC 17803700 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17803596?utm_medium=rss I love this pub, the atmosphere for watching football is brilliant. There aren't many decent football pubs left..so please don't spoil this one.

]]> Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:29:03 UTC 17803596 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17803588?utm_medium=rss Mon, 1 Sep 2014 07:20:34 UTC 17803588 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17803392?utm_medium=rss Sport has been the main focal point of the Spring for several years now. Large groups of people [spending not incidental amounts of money] congregating not only for the 'big' matches but also on late Sunday afternoons, Monday nights etc, have been a regular feature of the Spring. People tend to stay for far longer than for the mere duration of the game, live Sport therefore proving to be the catalyst attracting us to the pub in the first place. It has become a key component of life in this area and it is unlikely that many of us will now have any interest in visiting the 'pub' [or whatever it henceforth chooses to call itself]. There are a glut of new Restaurants [several newly opened] in the Kingston area but a shortage [ever more so] of good, local pubs. This decision is not only ill judged and short sighted, it will surely prove to be a poor business decision

]]> Mon, 1 Sep 2014 03:15:47 UTC 17803392 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17803341?utm_medium=rss This is very much a community pub. It has been much involved with our community groups and. Church groups. It is the heart of the area, all,of this will go with your proposed large restaurant pub, there are plenty of these locally we do not need another.

]]> Mon, 1 Sep 2014 02:09:54 UTC 17803341 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801868?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:52:52 UTC 17801868 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801825?utm_medium=rss i have enjoyed the sports in the pub for many years with my son, partner, and friends. it's a massive shame to go elsewhere, where its not as nice. infact my son has stopped going alltogether.

]]> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 11:30:28 UTC 17801825 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801383?utm_medium=rss My family & I have been using the Spring Grove as our local pub for over 20 years. I have no objections to revamping the pub slightly. The Spring Grove in its current state is a lovely community pub with a really nice mix of people from all over the area. I have often taken friends (even from Germany) who love the atmosphere. In my view it's is the best pub in the area. One of the key successes of the pub is the diversity of the sport being shown. The separate areas so not all areas have the sport on, but when there is a big sporting event 'Footblall world cup' for example all the screens are on and the pub is full. I have seen how over the years the 'old style' Youngs pubs have been eroded by creating Gastro pubs and I understand that certain pubs lend themselves to this type of change, however I do not think that the Spring Grove is a pub that needs such a dramatic change. Please do not spoil what is currently a lovely pub, consider a compromise and maybe listen to your regulars.

]]> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 05:06:18 UTC 17801383 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801335?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Aug 2014 04:11:01 UTC 17801335 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801263?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Aug 2014 02:59:09 UTC 17801263 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17801194?utm_medium=rss Sun, 31 Aug 2014 01:37:09 UTC 17801194 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17800485?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:05:33 UTC 17800485 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17800321?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 10:44:05 UTC 17800321 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17800168?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:45:45 UTC 17800168 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17800075?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 07:48:30 UTC 17800075 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799893?utm_medium=rss Why ruin this friendly backstreet local ? It will probably end up like The Waggon and Horses.

]]> Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:57:11 UTC 17799893 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799868?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:03:25 UTC 17799868 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799793?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:38:34 UTC 17799793 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799774?utm_medium=rss Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:22:48 UTC 17799774 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799739?utm_medium=rss We love the spring grove as it is.please do not take away it's heart. There are many other ways to update and attract new customers but not this. Pleas think carefully Youngs

]]> Sat, 30 Aug 2014 12:46:25 UTC 17799739 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17799236?utm_medium=rss Great local pub to have my Sunday roast in and watch the football. Please don't force me to look for another local.

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:53:09 UTC 17799236 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798859?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:42:55 UTC 17798859 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798838?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:37:37 UTC 17798838 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798836?utm_medium=rss A great locals pub with a good mixture of people of all ages. A gastro pub/restuarant here will not work.

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:36:56 UTC 17798836 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798818?utm_medium=rss Bitterly disappointed that Young's has failed to understand and appreciate the essence of a community pub. Sports viewing and dining can co-exist. Please rethink.

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:23:49 UTC 17798818 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798056?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:19:10 UTC 17798056 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798043?utm_medium=rss Great little pub that would be a tragic loss to the local community.

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:11:25 UTC 17798043 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798035?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:07:01 UTC 17798035 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17798012?utm_medium=rss the area is saturated by gastro pubs, we do not need another! Bring back the sport

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:46:28 UTC 17798012 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797996?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:33:04 UTC 17797996 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797987?utm_medium=rss In Kingston there are an increasing number of places to eat at a variety of price points; there are increasingly fewer and fewer venues to watch sport, particularly if you do not enjoy the Hungry Horse / O'Neill's type crowd.

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:28:51 UTC 17797987 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797974?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:20:16 UTC 17797974 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797973?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:19:47 UTC 17797973 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797967?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:17:24 UTC 17797967 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797960?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 07:12:03 UTC 17797960 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797918?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:44:51 UTC 17797918 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797889?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 06:29:14 UTC 17797889 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797816?utm_medium=rss The spring grove is a great local & family friendly pub, it has a very welcoming atmosphere
don't change it to yet another gastro bar! There are enough restaurants & boring bog standard bars in Kingston.
People want a proper pub, where you can relax with a pint & watch the match

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 05:33:38 UTC 17797816 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797676?utm_medium=rss I'm a bar maid at the Spring Grove public house and also work as a chartered surveyor in the licensed leisure industry; I completely agree with the regular customers of the Spring Grove on this matter.
This is a back street boozer where regulars / locals enjoy a few pints and a burger / roast dinner whilst watching the football / rugby; where are these 'gastro' diners going to come from? Where will the 'gastro' diners park on a Saturday afternoon when its permit holders only? With its residential setting it's not a pub many pass in travel. I don't doubt that the pub will benefit from improvement, however don’t alienate the loyal customers you have for a new breed of customers you're yet to attract!

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 03:12:25 UTC 17797676 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797621?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:23:22 UTC 17797621 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797593?utm_medium=rss Please leave this pub as a traditional pub

]]> Fri, 29 Aug 2014 02:01:43 UTC 17797593 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797574?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Aug 2014 01:43:11 UTC 17797574 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17797280?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:22:44 UTC 17797280 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796971?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:03:25 UTC 17796971 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796935?utm_medium=rss As I female I don't regularly seek out pubs that have satellite but this is the last one in the area to still have it and is regularly attended by friends and family for that reason. There are already several pubs in the area serving overpriced pub grub, would hate to see this one join them!

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:32:34 UTC 17796935 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796932?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:26:29 UTC 17796932 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796931?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:23:43 UTC 17796931 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796919?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:11:53 UTC 17796919 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796894?utm_medium=rss Why is every pub losing sports and making bloody £6 scotch eggs. It's a joke.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:47:52 UTC 17796894 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796868?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:24:02 UTC 17796868 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796867?utm_medium=rss No need for ANOTHER gastro pub.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:23:49 UTC 17796867 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796863?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:18:59 UTC 17796863 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796860?utm_medium=rss I regularly attend the spring grove to watch sport with friends as it is the only pub near to us that we are able to do this now! It seems the only public venue where I can do this locally and regularly will be denied to us! I will not be eating out on the pub as there are better restaurants where I will eat out! I am not alone and the pub will now lose my patronage! It may mean the pub will become uneconomic to run!

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 03:17:55 UTC 17796860 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796733?utm_medium=rss What a shame. Pity there was no actual consultation with any locals.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:36:25 UTC 17796733 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796732?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:35:45 UTC 17796732 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796704?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 01:06:05 UTC 17796704 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796687?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:47:52 UTC 17796687 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796639?utm_medium=rss Real shame for the community

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:04:56 UTC 17796639 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796605?utm_medium=rss One of the only decent pubs in the area that has Sky for the cricket. That is one f the main reasons I go there. Loads of pubs in the area have become largely restaurants or are no longer not suitable pubs for regular friends to meet and enjoy sport as well as conversation. It would be a shame if this pub went the same way, as the plans indicate, and the choice in the area was further reduced.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:33:59 UTC 17796605 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796545?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:00:37 UTC 17796545 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796262?utm_medium=rss One of the very few 'proper' pubs left and my girlfriend actually doesn' mind sitting in !!
Kingston is now saturated with eateries, we can only eat so much food out, please keep this as a social fun place.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:41:15 UTC 17796262 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796186?utm_medium=rss The Spring Grove is fine as it is, pub loved by its customers, please do not change its character.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 08:09:57 UTC 17796186 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796119?utm_medium=rss Spruce it up and leave it alone

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:28:01 UTC 17796119 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17796078?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:12:50 UTC 17796078 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17795927?utm_medium=rss This is a back street local frequented by locals, who meet to socialise and watch sport, turning into a restaurant would be a loss of revenue to the brewery, the area is permit parking, with little spaces available during the day and evening, who would use a back street restaurant when 10 minutes down the road there is town full of good quality restaurants.

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:24:58 UTC 17795927 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17795824?utm_medium=rss We don't need ANOTHER restaurant but we do need the pub !

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