The Humble Grape licensing application

4:50pm, 2nd March 2010

Where? What? A new venue? Trendy bar? A vintner?
It’s not one of the usual places on Lavender Hill but a new application for a property on Altenburg Gardens. The licence is for the sale of alcohol 24 hours a day for consumption off the premises, customers will not visit the premises, but order via phone [...]

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The end of the Elsley School building?

4:38pm, 25th February 2010

Elsley School’s move to the Nightingale site looks like being made permanent. The site has been empty for some time now, and on occasion been a cause for concern and problem for neighbouring residents.
To be fair I’m not that surprised. I was chairman of governors at the school immediately before it ‘federated’ with Nightingale, the [...]

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Stormont Road and indecisive public consultation

4:13pm, 23rd February 2010

The results of the council’s consultation on traffic control in the Stormont Road area (which in reality is most of the roads between Clapham Common and Lavender Hill) were considered by the council’s transport committee last night.
They were, frankly, more an exercise in showing how consultation often doesn’t help anyone come to a conclusion! Of [...]

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New phone mast in Stormont Road

12:45pm, 16th February 2010

Phone masts really should be bread and butter stuff for councillors. They are rarely popular and often provoke high emotions from residents.
Unfortunately I’ve painted myself in a corner; having consistently complained (if you follow me on Twitter it’s a regular topic) about the dire O2 coverage in SW11 over the past year or so, it’s [...]

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19 Lavender Hill – revisited

3:29pm, 9th February 2010

19 Lavender Hill is an address I will never forget. I have only vague and uncertain memories of my various addresses at university, and could take a stab at my first home in London, but not with any confidence. But I know I will always remember 19 Lavender Hill. Which in a way is a [...]

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20mph zone for Shaftesbury Park Estate

10:05am, 28th January 2010

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, [...]

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Clapham Junction gets its share of Adonis’ cash

12:46pm, 21st January 2010

It’s nearly two months since Lord Adonis’ big announcement of a £50 million pot to invest in the country’s ten worst stations – and the naming of Clapham Junction as number two on the list.
I was a little cynical, since I think Clapham Junction needs some significant spend on it, and questioned how the cash [...]

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A great start to the year: dog fouling

2:18pm, 6th January 2010

I didn’t make any New Year’s Resolutions about this blog but perhaps I should have made one to avoid posting about any councillor’s favourite topic: dog fouling.
Up and down the country it’s one of those issues that has become a cliche in for local government. But it’s become a cliche because it is a real [...]

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19 Lavender Hill… the beginning of the end?

3:24pm, 3rd December 2009

I’ve posted about 19 Lavender Hill, the abandoned, eyesore, building on the corner of Garfield Road on a couple of occasions before and have had plenty of correspondence from residents (both near and far to the building) about it. But it still remains an very obvious blight on the road.
In order to provide a [...]

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Weekly wrap-up, 27 November

5:55pm, 27th November 2009

Campaigning
I’m not sure why but it seems like campaigning seems to be taking up more and more time, although looking through the diary we’ve been keeping up a fairly stiff pace through the summer months. It is perhaps the onset of darker and considerably colder nights makes an evening on the doorstep seem a [...]

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