The architectural practice Hawkins\Brown (the architect which designed the new Peabody estate on St John’s Hill) has unveiled last week their vision for Clapham Junction’s future. Their website reports work…
Continue Reading »Author: Cyril Richert The B&Q proposal in Wandsworth Town was approved by 9 votes against one at January’s Planning Application Committee. However, reading the minutes of the PAC (download HERE),…
Continue Reading »Author: Cyril Richert I was delighted to read last month another article demonstrating the misleading use of “housing shortage/crisis” (the dominant view) to justify the current policies promoting massive developer…
Continue Reading »On Tuesday 19 September, Councillors from the Overview & Scrutiny Committee were asked to back the scheme to replace the current Northcote library by a block of flat, and rebuild…
Continue Reading »Last July we attended the hearing organised by the government inspector in charge of reviewing Wandsworth planning policy. While we were discussing the level of housing in the borough, a senior…
Continue Reading »A signals-controlled pelican crossing (a pair of poles each with a standard set of traffic lights facing oncoming traffic, a push button and two illuminated “green men”) as now been installed between…
Continue Reading »Author: Cyril Richert Following May 2014 local elections, and many new councillors being elected (with 6 more Labour) all the Council committees were reshuffled.…
Continue Reading »Author: Cyril Richert The Council has now published its report on the Consultation on changes for its Local Plan (item 9 – Paper 14-141). In total 34 respondents made representations relating…
Continue Reading »The Council has been presenting four different improvement proposals for the estates and asked for views on their relative pros and cons. According to the Council’s website, these options are…
Continue Reading »A paper published by the council at the beginning of October recommended that it needed to cut its budget by an extra £43m, which brings the total amounts it aims…
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