Do you need help with rent arrears, or debt from Housing Benefit or Council Tax? Come along to free advice sessions at the Western Area Housing Office, Holybourne Avenue, Alton estate.
Forty eight council and housing association homes have been recovered from tenancy fraudsters and let to people in genuine need during the past year, saving an estimated £2.8million in temporary accommodation costs.
The leader of the council Ravi Govindia has written an open letter to the people of Wandsworth on the Mayor of London's decision to call in a planning application to build homes near Swandon Way. The application had been rejected by Wandsworth Council.
More than a hundred volunteers helped spruce up the Savona and Carey Gardens Estates yesterday as part of the US Embassy’s annual Day of Service, organised by Wandsworth Council.
Road users and pedestrians across Wandsworth will see improvements to road surfaces and footpaths as part of the council’s ongoing £5m neighbourhood investment programme currently underway.
Hospital staff working at St George’s, a gym instructor and a teacher were among nine people taken to court and fined after being caught fraudulently using other people’s disabled parking badges.
Discount retail giant Poundland is counting the cost of ignoring a major mouse infestation at its flagship Wandsworth store after being hit by magistrates with what is believed to be one of the country’s heaviest ever retail food safety fines.
Earlier this year a delegation of Wandsworth councillors, former council officers and local residents travelled to the Somme Valley in northern France to pay their respects to fallen soldiers and to visit the sites of fierce First World War battles involving the Battersea and Wandsworth battalions.
Council education spokesperson Cllr Sarah McDermott has congratulated the borough’s students and teachers after every secondary school and college in Wandsworth recorded an improved set of A-level results this year.
The council now offers a European Passport Return Service (EPRS) so that European nationals living in Wandsworth can keep hold of their passports when applying to the Home Office for a registration certificate or a document certifying permanent residence.
Provisional data from Wandsworth Council’s pollution monitoring station on Battersea Park Road / Thessaly Road shows a fall in fine particle (PM10) pollution in 2017, with levels within EU health limits for the year to date.
Nine one- and two-bedroom flats are expected to be ready to launch soon in Falcon Road, Battersea, prioritised for people living or working in Wandsworth.
A suspected arson attack early yesterday morning (Thursday) at a block of flats in Southfields has been condemned in the strongest terms and the culprits warned that if they are caught and they live in a council property they will be evicted.
The council’s enforcement teams are cracking down on the small minority of people who make a mess on local streets and are asking local residents to help pinpoint repeat offenders.
Work has started on six new council houses in Rowditch Lane, with old garages demolished to make way for five three-bedroom and one two-bedroom houses.
Local people building their own homes on small, under-used council sites has taken a step closer to becoming a reality with the announcement of a pilot scheme.
