Category Archives: Wandsworth

Olympic torch tickets

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The council has published details of how to get tickets for the Olympic Torch relay event that Wandsworth is hosting on 23 July on Tooting Common. The event will be (free) ticket only and the tickets will be issued on a first-come first-served basis at Battersea, Balham, Putney, Tooting or Wandsworth libraries between 7.30 and
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Volunteer for Get Active Day

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Active Wandsworth are looking for volunteers for Get Active Day on 14 July at King George’s Park in Wandsworth. Some of the roles they are looking for include (taken from the council’s Active Wandsworth volunteering PDF leaflet): Festival Helpers – people to help set up and take down some of the equipment, tents, gazebos, generators,
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Want to know what happened at last month’s full council?

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A rhetorical question. But feel free to add one word answers in the comments below. But if you are interested, here’s my attempt at Storifying the meeting. Essentially I’ve interleaved my tweets from the meeting with the speeches on the two debates on early intervention and the Southside shopping centre. [View the story “Wandsworth Council:
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My annual report (of sorts) 2011-2012

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Is this an annual report? I don’t think so really, not by any stretch of the imagination but last year I posted on my attendance rate at Wandsworth Council meetings. I’m not sure how useful it was, personally, I think rating councillors according to town hall meetings is a poor indication of their effectiveness: would
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Jane Cooper, an exceptional mayor

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Much as I’m a fan of directly elected mayors, I recognise they have one weakness: they can never, ever, compete with the civic value of the traditional mayor. Tonight sees the annual change of Wandsworth’s mayor from Jane Cooper to Adrian Knowles, and the council and local press will mark this with their retrospectives. I’ve
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Changes to Wandsworth rubbish collection

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If you haven’t noticed (and I fear many haven’t) the council’s refuse collections are changing from next week. The changes are a result of the council’s new collection contract. Many of the changes will not directly affect residents. Those that will include changing the collection method, so general waste and recycling can be taken together
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Where’s the grit in Wandsworth?

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View Grit bin locations in a larger map Following last night’s snow-fall I thought it might be worth re-publishing the locations of grit-bins in the borough. The Google map details where they all are (roughly, but they are big yellow things, so I’m confident it gives more than enough information for you to find them)
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Nike London borough challenge

A borough rarely evokes the civic pride it deserves; the areas you identify with rarely have coterminous borders with a local authority. Indeed, I’d probably say I’m from Battersea before I’d say I was from Wandsworth. And while I can think of any number of points of pride I have when comparing Wandsworth and others
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This winter’s grit-bin locations

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Just like last year the council has place a number of grit bins around the borough, and I’ve updated the Google map I did of the locations. Only two or three have moved (I didn’t keep a precise count of changes) so if you had a bin last year the chances are good it is
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Things I like to see

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View Larger Map Google Maps is now more accurate! Having been raised many times by many different people like the SW11tch campaign and various people from the Streetlife Identity Taskforce the mapping used by Google now puts Clapham over, well, Clapham. While this shouldn’t take any credit away from map providers like Bing or the
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