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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.
Tag Archives: Roehampton
Public health in Wandsworth
Andrew Lansley, the Secretary of State for Health, came to Wandsworth to launch the public health white paper yesterday. I’ve been very remiss in not posting much about health on here, despite the fact that it’s probably the most exciting area of local government at the moment and presents a huge opportunity for local councils
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Creative Futures
Roehampton University are (and have been for a while) offering a series of free courses for Wandsworth residents as part of a programme called ‘Creative Futures’. The irony of it all is that Roehampton students are barred from taking part, so it’s open to anyone but them! The annoyance (and perhaps my criticism) is that
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Roehampton: SNT of the year
Last night I went to the awarding of the Safer Neighbourhood Team of the year award. I was a member of the judging panel and have to say it was a hard choice, with Roehampton just pipping Fairfield to the title. Building on their special award at last year’s Enterprising Roehampton awards. Both teams received
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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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Posted in Community Safety, Regeneration, Weekly report
Also tagged Alcohol Exclusion Zone, Mastermind, Neighbourhood Watch, OSC, street drinkers, Tony Belton
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Enterprising Roehampton Awards
Last night I attended the Enterprising Roehampton awards at Roehampton University. During my comments at the beginning of the awards I reflected that it hasn’t been a good year. We are the longest recession on record and while Wandsworth may be escaping the very worst effects we’ve still see unemployment rise significantly. Most disappointing was
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Regeneration and Community Safety Committee
I attended the Regeneration and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee as Executive Member last night. The meeting was largely focused on community safety matters, and was one of the longer ones for a while, perhaps because there were some interesting items on the agenda. You can see the full agenda on the council’s website.
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Posted in Community Safety, Regeneration, Wandsworth
Also tagged Battersea, Fire Service, Labour, RCS OSC, Safer Neighbourhood Teams, SNTs, Tooting
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Weekly wrap-up, 30 October
This week was a story of two regenerations – with two very different results. Recession kills off Roehampton regeneration The bad news came for Roehampton. The Roehampton Regeneration had been moving slowly for several months while the planning application was developed and everyone was aware that the economic climate meant that rapid progress was unlikely.
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Posted in London, Regeneration, Weekly report
Also tagged Crossrail, Nine Elms, Northern Line, Queenstown, recession
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Recession kills off regeneration plans for Roehampton
The recession has finally put paid to hopes for a major regeneration project in Roehampton. The scheme had been in development for a number of years and went through seemingly endless consultations with local residents, mixed feelings from the Labour Party (who couldn’t work out if they want to improve people’s quality of life or
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Weekly wrap-up, 18 September
St John’s Hill Festival I’m cheating a bit with this week’s photo, since it’s not mine, but was taken by Emma Jane Clark at last Sunday’s St John’s Hill Festival. I’ve used it without permission but hope she doesn’t mind because I really like it. And congratulations to everyone involved in putting the festival on.
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Posted in Community Safety, Regeneration, Weekly report
Also tagged crime, drinking, fear of crime, gun crime, St John's Hill, Stuart King
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Fighting the recession in Wandsworth
Last Wednesday’s Regeneration and Community Safety Overview and Scrutiny Committee was the first in the ‘new’ format in which the focus moves from each meeting to a different part of the portfolio. This time it was the turn of regeneration and, not surprisingly, the recession took up a large part of the meeting. It is
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Posted in Regeneration
Also tagged American Embassy, Best Buy, Economy, inward investment, Nine Elms, recession, town centres, Wandle Valley
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