Wandsworth Town Hall joined other landmark buildings across the Capital last night to be illuminated in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy.
The council’s transport spokesman has urged the Mayor of London to do more to reassure Wandsworth residents that they will not be adversely affected following today’s announcement that the expansion of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) is to go ahead.
Transport secretary Chris Grayling is pressing ahead with support for a third Heathrow runway without providing full details of the real impact of increased noise or of worsening air quality on people’s lives say council leaders.
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has failed to incorporate 22 of the 25 changes put forward by the Transport Select Committee (TSC) in his updated national planning statement (NPS) - despite telling Parliament this week (5 June) that he had ‘acted upon’ 24 of the recommendations.
Thanks to National Lottery players the restoration of Tooting Common’s famous fossil tree and its surroundings will begin this week as part of a wide-ranging Wandsworth Council-led project to enhance and improve this much loved and popular green open space.
Residents in the Furzedown area of Tooting are to be asked to give their views on plans that could see more than £100,000 invested in a local green space.
Teenagers and young people can show off their football, netball and basketball skills, and let off plenty of steam during the summer months at an upgraded ball games area on Wandsworth Common.
Work is now underway to improve drainage at some of the football pitches on Wandsworth common in a bid to prevent games being called off due to waterlogging.
The council’s decision to reject a planning application that could have paved the way for some Putney residents to extend their back gardens onto a small strip of land in Wandsworth Park has been upheld by an independent planning inspector.
Residents and community groups are being invited to tell Wandsworth Council how they think money raised from developers should be spent on improving local neighbourhoods.
London’s largest free contemporary arts festival Art Night is now just over a month away – coming south of the river to Nine Elms, Battersea and Vauxhall for the first time on July 7.
As tennis fever mounts with Queens and Wimbledon just around the corner, people in Wandsworth are enjoying better playing surfaces and facilities following a £500,000 revamp.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should be doing more to support the boroughs in delivering new electric vehicle charging infrastructure, according to Wandsworth Council’s transport spokesman Jonathan Cook.
A Putney man faces the prospect of being summonsed to appear in front of magistrates following the discovery of a large flytip in Putney Park Lane yesterday afternoon (Wednesday).
People are being reminded to take part in a public consultation into plans for a series of streetscape improvements on Wandsworth Common’s popular Bellevue Road.
Wandsworth Council’s deputy leader Jonathan Cook and the Minister for London Jo Johnson met at the Battersea site of the multibillion pound Thames Tideway Tunnel yesterday (May 17) as engineers prepare to start tunnelling.
The leader of Wandsworth Council Ravi Govindia has announced the local councillors who will serve alongside him as members of his new cabinet, following the borough council elections earlier this month.
Council leader Ravi Govindia has welcomed today’s Government announcement (Thursday) that ministers are poised to limit the sums of money that can be gambled on high stakes fruit machines.
