Monthly Archives: December 2008
Happy New Year
I would like to wish everyone who has taken the time to read my little corner of the internet a very happy new year and wish them all the best for 2009. Share this:
Wandsworth Council is now twittering
Twittering is a form of microblogging which, along with this blog, I started as a bit of an experiment. I will freely admit that it hasn’t taken the course I expected – but there are some fascinating conversations taking place on there, especially around subjects of democratic and social engagement, so it is something I [...]
Keeping Northcote Road special
The council’s plans for Northcote Road will be going before the Regeneration and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee early next week. They are the end of a process that was started before the recession started to bite, but now times are getting harder the recommendations will really help traders. The basic thrust is to [...]
Tweets for week ending 2008-12-28
More last minute shopping in Clapham Junction, why do I always let Christmas take me by surprise? # At the Town Hall for the last time this year. # Feeling very virtuous after an early morning run around Battersea Park. # Meeting with the new chairman of the Wandsworth LGBT forum. # RT New blog [...]
Wandsworth fights the recession
With the Christmas hangovers barely worn off today sees the start of Woolworths closure programme. Wandsworth’s stores all close in the New Year, and will leave a big hole in the town centres they are leaving, and a bigger hole in the lives of the employees who are losing their jobs. Shortly before Christmas Edward [...]
Merry Christmas
The news might not always have been the cheeriest, but I hope that wherever you are and whatever you are doing you have a very merry Christmas. Share this:
Zavvi wasn’t on the list
Having posted yesterday about speculation on who was next, I can’t say anyone thought for one second that the next victim of Brown’s economic miracle would be today. Nor did anyone think it would be Zavvi - a retailer that basically sells all those things that normally fill Christmas stockings and you would expect to doing [...]
Great expectations
I made one last trip into Clapham Junction town centre today and was amazed at how busy it was. Asda was heaving, there was a steady flow of bag-laden shoppers coming from St John’s and Northcote Roads and there was the traditional queue of people outside Doves. Perhaps the economy isn’t all that bad. But [...]
Tooting crime briefing – 9-16 December 2008
If the Putney map shows how little crime there is, the Tooting map shows how crime often clusters around a specific area or set of roads. As usual, health warnings follow the map. The map is hosted by Google, and occasionally will not load, or will not load the flags. If it does not display [...]
Putney crime briefing – 9-16 December 2008
Since my council cabinet role doesn’t just cover Shaftesbury or Battersea I’ve prepared a similar crime map for Putney (and Tooting, which will follow later today). Below is the map, one thing I think it illustrates is how little crime there actually is – just seven burglaries and four robberies. As usual the health warnings [...]
