Tag Archives: Northcote Road
Northcote Carnival
I was astounded at the scale of yesterday’s Northcote carnival. Although I’d seen the programme and heard about some of the preparations (and, of course, went last year) I wasn’t quite ready to see almost the entirety of Northcote Road so dramatically transformed. I spent a few hours with the council’s community safety team and [...]
Northcote Carnival
It’s the second Northcote Carnival this weekend. Sunday sees a day of events on a closed off Northcote Road. Despite only being the second year this year has seen it get much bigger, as well as boasting the usual markets, stalls and entertainment it all has two stages (a gauntlet thrown down for all the [...]
A safer Northcote Road
One of the things I think we do well in Wandsworth is enabling people to take responsibility for their own lives. The flagship of this is the low council tax, meaning people keep as much of their own money as possible. But I’m rather pleased with the contributions Wandsworth’s community safety team offer. Neighbourhood Watch [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
St John’s Hill Festival
The first St John’s Hill Festival takes place this Sunday (13 September). The event will take place from 11am to 5pm on the pavements and in participating shops on St John’s Hill between Plough Road and Marcilly Road. The festival will have the usual mix of entertainment, food and drink and, naturally, shopping! It follows [...]
Battersea’s neighbourhoods – a renaissance?
At last week’s Northcote Road Carnival I was having a chat with Essential Local magazine about the event. One of the things they asked for was a quote about the day. And it was virtually impossible to give, because pretty much anything you could say was put on the bottom of a list of other [...]
Northcote Road carnival
If you are in SW11 today then it’s worth popping along to Northcote Road for their first Northcote Carnival. Wandsworth seems to be doing really well for businesses organising events to celebrate and promote their areas. I hesitate to list them for fear of missing some, but just in the SW11 area we had the [...]
Still don’t panic: Swine flu in Wandsworth
I will not deny that I was tempted to be a little flippant with this post, because there seems to be a little bit of panic in the air about swine flu. This dinky little blog attracted huge numbers of hits over the bank holiday weekend (and hits are generally down at weekends, moreso on [...]
Northcote Road action plan agreed
I have already blogged about our Northcote Road plans so was pleased that these were agreed at the Regeneration and Community Safety OSC on Wednesday night. Peter Dawson, one of the Northcote Councillors, attended the meeting and spoke in support of the plans. Peter has been involved right from the start – standing up for the [...]
