The supply of homes in Wandsworth for people on lower incomes has been boosted by the formal signing of contracts for the construction of 92 new affordable homes.
The former finance chief at a Battersea secondary school has been jailed for three and a half years after a council-led investigation discovered she’d stolen more than £220,000.
Residents in nearly 40 streets in Earlsfield and Wandsworth Common wards are being reminded they have just under a fortnight left to have their say on proposals to ban lorries from their neighbourhoods.
Household Enquiry Forms were sent to all Wandsworth households in July asking residents to update or confirm the information held on the electoral register.
A social work team that upholds the rights of people who lack the mental capacity to consent to their social care and treatment arrangements has been shortlisted for a national award.
Town hall transport chiefs have given a cautious welcome to the news that further work will begin this month on the long-awaited and much-needed redesign of the Wandsworth one-way system.
This year the adult social care system is 70 years old. Wandsworth is celebrating and highlighting the value of adult social care and wants to recognise staff and service users.
Two students from Burntwood School have won the very first Tooting Streetfood Challenge and will get a chance to launch their taco business at Tooting Market.
Wandsworth has signed a pledge to do all it can to increase social mobility in the borough, and has vowed to build on work already done to improve the life chances of all its residents and staff.
Wandsworth Council supports a wide range of voluntary and community sector organisations through the Wandsworth Grant Fund, the Wandsworth Local Fund and the Wandsworth Community Fund managed by the London Community Foundation.
Councillors have approved plans for a scheme that would offer a fast-track solution to limit the impact of unauthorised incursions on public land in the borough.
Wandsworth Council’s planning committee has voted to give the go-ahead to the construction of 894 new housing units for rent, including affordable homes, on the former Royal Mail Group site in Nine Elms.
Councillors have backed a trial scheme designed to curb rat-running in the West Hill area in response to pleas from residents concerned at the volume of traffic using their residential streets as a cut-through.
Wandsworth Council Leader, Cllr Ravi Govindia, has concluded his period as chair of Central London Forward (CLF) having overseen a challenging but productive year for the partnership.
Work Match, the service set up five years ago to help get local people into employment while also supporting local businesses, is celebrating finding its 1000th person a job.
A Putney school that has been connecting its pupils with children from a refugee camp in Jordan was chosen to launch a pioneering new programme by the UK Government and the British Council.
The Wandsworth Lifelong Learning Service has announced a range of courses this autumn for adults to learn new skills, including opportunities to learn with your family.
Homeless families, elderly tenants and those with vulnerabilities are to be given priority when it comes to installing life-saving fire protection measures, councillors in Wandsworth agreed last night.
The owner of a fast food takeaway in Tooting may face prosecution and has now lost his licence to serve food late at night after councillors were told he racially abused and then assaulted a food safety inspector.
Residents in Nine Elms threw open the doors to welcome their neighbours from the United States Embassy as officials volunteered in the community to mark the 2018 Day of Service.
The council’s environmental protection spokesman Steffi Sutters is calling on local magistrates to treat flytipping cases more seriously and impose effective deterrent sentences after a resident was given “a tiny slap on the wrist” for dumping a large pile of waste in a local beauty spot.
