Blogged: Tweets for week ending 2010-01-24 http://bit.ly/7G86Hq #
Blogged: Crime briefing, 14 – 21 January http://bit.ly/4uv7zb #
Blogged: Hooray! The recession is over http://bit.ly/4FMkFq #
Blogged: Dedication to Wandsworth http://bit.ly/cXWVX1 #
Blogged: Battersea Power Station http://bit.ly/dqXlJg #
Blogged: 20mph zone for Shaftesbury Park Estate http://bit.ly/aTr2Nc #
Blogged: Blair’s tainted legacy http://bit.ly/aLq88G #
Blogged: Roehampton: SNT of the year http://bit.ly/9W0VxI #
Blogged: Developing council [...]

Category: Twitter Tags: Twitter.
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My last post started life as this week’s weekly wrap-up, but then killed it off.
The point of the posts, which I’ve been doing since last May, was to be some sort of ‘report’. I’d started them at the suggestion of a commenter on the blog. But I just don’t think they were adding anything.
And [...]

Category: Blogging, Weekly report Tags: chores, comments.
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I indulged my inner geek last weekend, going along to the second half of the UK GovWeb barcamp (essentially an informal conference about technology in the government sector). I always feel a little bit like the token sceptic at these things, perhaps because I am one of the few politicians who goes and find my [...]

Category: Blogging, Politics Tags: policy, UK GovWeb.
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Listening to Tony Blair give evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry it’s hard to not imagine that he feels he isn’t just defending his actions over the Iraq War, but defending his entire legacy.
And that is what he is doing – while you can have the political debate over everything else he did in his ten [...]

Category: Politics Tags: Blair, Chilcot, Iraq.
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Last night I went to the awarding of the Safer Neighbourhood Team of the year award. I was a member of the judging panel and have to say it was a hard choice, with Roehampton just pipping Fairfield to the title. Building on their special award at last year’s Enterprising Roehampton awards.
Both teams received many [...]

Category: Community Safety Tags: Awards, Roehampton, SNT.
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Following consultation with residents the Shaftesbury Park Estate will be getting a 20mph zone, one of the borough’s first.
Reducing speed limits has been a frequent request in all my time as a councillor. The problem was that it just couldn’t be enforced – the police have other priorities and traditional speed bumps have severe problems, [...]

Category: Shaftesbury Tags: 20mph, Shaftesbury Park Estate, traffic, traffic calming.
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I’ve been through several iterations of Power Station schemes, especially since 2006. Privately, when the current owners bought it, I was a lot more confident, since the previous owners seemed to only be interested in developing new plans, rather than doing anything with them.
Having seen various schemes come and go since 1998 (knowing that there [...]

Category: Regeneration Tags: Battersea, Power Station, Treasury Holdings.
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Wandsworth produces a weekly bulletin of roadworks in the borough which gets circulated and distributed to various people. Each week I look at it, mainly to see if there’s anything major happening in my ward. But it never occurred to me to think much about the senior engineer who produced it.
I found out a bit [...]

Category: Wandsworth Tags: Council, long service.
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The UK has finally left recession. As Gordon Brown repeatedly told us, we were one of the best placed economies to weather the storm – although quite how that tallies with being the last major economy to see growth and having the longest recession since current records began escapes me.
What is interesting to me, is [...]

Category: Regeneration Tags: GDP, Gordon Brown, Jobseekers Allowance, JSA, recession.
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The map below details crimes reported in Wandsworth between 14 and 21 January 2010.
If you have any information on any of these crimes you can get in touch with the local police on 020 7350 1122 or via Crimestoppers (anonymously, if you wish) on 0800 555 111.
You can click on the individual markers for more [...]

Category: Community Safety Tags: crime, crime mapping.
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