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I'm a councillor in the London Borough of Wandsworth; this blog mainly covers that, sometimes general politics and policy and occasionally anything else that takes my fancy.
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Weekly wrap-up, 22 January
I seem to have stopped taking photos this year – so the cup of tea is getting a few outings – not that photos of meetings or a fairly damp and dreary London are any more exciting. Councillor Awards I started the week off acting as a judge for the Local Government Information Unit’s first
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Also posted in Regeneration
Tagged Awards, Business, contracts, councillor, JSA, LGIU, Local Strategic Partnership, LSP, NHS, Nine Elms, police, Power Station, Unemployment
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Weekly wrap-up, 15 January
It’s been another week I’ve ended out of Wandsworth. This week the child in me has been excited by a trip on a sleeper train in which my knowledge of sleepers, derived entirely from Agatha Christie and Hart to Hart (a show surely due a remake) was confounded as no-one was murdered). If that wasn’t
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Also posted in Community Safety, Regeneration
Tagged Alcohol Exclusion Zone, Mastermind, Neighbourhood Watch, OSC, Roehampton, street drinkers, Tony Belton
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Weekly wrap-up, 8 December
I will never tire of using the same snow related photo for such posts. I want it to become a cliché for the blog, in just the same way that snow becomes the tired and clichéd news item whenever it happens in this country. In fact, I’ve not that much Wandsworth-related to write about. I
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Tagged peer review, refuse collection, snow
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Weekly wrap-up, 18 December
Things are getting quieter as we get close to Christmas. While we don’t have a ‘recess’ like Parliament (since we don’t sit, but meet every six weeks or so) the council carries on, there are no formal meetings over the Christmas period. That’s not to say we do nothing. Obviously all the council staff have
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Weekly wrap-up, 4 December
It isn’t unique to being a councillor (although it might be exacerbated by the lack of structure) but I struggle to think of the things I have been up to this week! So when I can look to my diary to remind me of what meetings and appointments I’ve had I find myself thinking “was
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Also posted in Blogging, Community Safety, Regeneration
Tagged Chamber of Commerce, Christmas, Conservatives, Fire Brigade, Group, Ken Clarke, Labour, Northcote Road, town centres, Worklessness
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Weekly wrap-up, 27 November
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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Also posted in Community Safety, Politics, Regeneration, Shaftesbury
Tagged ASB, Awards, campaigning, Community Safety Division, elections, housing, Martin Linton, Sara Apps, SNT, Stratford, Westfield
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Weekly wrap-up, 20 November
A few bits that I’ve not posted about separately during the week. Clapham Junction This week saw the (superficially) good news that Clapham Junction is to receive some funding for improvements, combined with the bad news – which we all sort of knew – that it’s the country’s second worst station. I’ve not written anything
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Also posted in Regeneration
Tagged Battersea Poems, Christmas, Clapham Junction, investment, Wandsworth Business Forum
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Weekly wrap-up, 13 November
As I go into the weekend I find myself almost computerless (mainly through my own fault) and using an old and slow computer means I’ll be keeping it brief! Town Centre meetings I had a meeting with representatives from the borough’s town centre partnerships early in the week which, I thought, was useful and generated
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Also posted in Community Safety, Regeneration, Wandsworth
Tagged civic awards, confidence, police, remembrance, town centres
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Weekly wrap-up, 6 November
It seems to have been an oddly quiet week. Regeneration and Community Safety OSC (well, cycling) I posted about the meeting the following day, so will not repeat the points. Except, rather smugly, to point out that I cycled to the meeting. I’m rather pleased that I’ve been managing to keep the cycling up –
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Also posted in Community Safety
Tagged AlertBox, Balham, Battersea Park, cycling, fireworks, Northcote Road, Oxford Circus, RCS OSC, Remembrance Day, Southfields, Tooting, Westminster
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Weekly wrap-up, 2009 – 2010 RIP
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.
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