Tag Archives: Asda
Weekly wrap-up, 11 December
Although I usually use this last post of the week to witter on about the past week I’m going start off with an event two weeks ago. Battersea Police Ball I can’t believe I forgot to mention this last week, but on Saturday 28 November I attended, along with about 1,500 other people, the Battersea [...]
Lavender Gardens playground refurbishment
The Lavender Gardens playground (the small playground between Dorothy Road and Asda) is closed for nine days from today. The playground is being refurbished by the council, who will be installing some swings, a wooden activity trail and a climbing frame and slide and will be re-opened on Wednesday 28 October. This follows on from [...]
Asda super-sizes?
I’ll confess I was surprised to get a letter today from Asda telling me that they are about to submit a planning application to Wandsworth to build a mezzanine level in their store at Clapham Junction. Their plan, apparently, includes the creation of 1,229 metres of new retail space, extensive refurbishment and a new customer [...]
Free crime prevention advice tomorrow
The council’s Community Safety Division, in partnership with the police Safer Neighbourhood Team, are running their crime prevention roadshow at Asda Clapham Junction tomorrow (Saturday 18th). Staff from Community Safety and the police will both be on hand to offer assistance or advice on all matters relating to crime prevention. There’s usually free balloons for [...]
Safe and Secure
The Council and Police’s Safe and Secure Roadshow was at Asda, Battersea today, handing out crime prevention advice to shoppers and balloons to the children (who also had a chance to meet PCSO Steve). It is, unfortunately, a good time for criminals as people often have fairly expensive, and brand new, gifts around – so [...]
Asda moves to Battersea
The Asda store on Lavender Hill re-opened today as ‘Asda Clapham Junction Battersea’ in response to the SW11tch campaign to make sure the area is properly named. Asda was one of the biggest offenders (Wal-Mart is the world’s largest company). So it’s a real coup for the campaigners to get them to recognise where they [...]
