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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
James is a Councillor for Shaftesbury Ward and Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Community Safety in the London Borough of Wandsworth. More...
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