Tag Archives: town centres
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 [...]
Putney Festive Market
The next of Wandsworth’s town centres to start getting the festive spirit is Putney, who are holding their annual festive market today. The event starts at 3pm, with the Christmas lights turned on at 6pm by Paralympian and TV presenter Ade Adepitan MBE. The market and events all take place in Church Square, near the [...]
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 [...]
Balham Street Festival
If you are in Balham this weekend then make sure you get along to the Balham Street Festival this Sunday between 1 and 5pm on Hildreth Street. The event boasts a packed programme of entertainment. You can get more information from the Balham Town Centre Manager’s blog at http://balham.squarespace.com/tcm-news/2009/7/17/balham-street-festival-sunday-9th-august.html Posted via email from jamescousins’s posterous. [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 10 July
As I said last week I was stopping doing my weekly report because it didn’t quite work, and, instead, replacing it with a weekly round-up. Already, I’ve broken the promise (a politician, a broken promise, never!) by changing the name. I obviously don’t know if this will work any better – only time will tell. [...]
Wally chooses Wandsworth over Scunthorpe
If you had the choice of hiding in a number of UK cities, where would you go? Google’s Street View launched in the UK yesterday with a Wally character hidden somewhere. And it seems that given the choice of a number of major UK cities (and Scunthorpe) Wally decided that hiding out in London was [...]
Beating the recession in Balham
I’ve written several times about Balham on this blog, largely the negative news surrounding the closures of Woolworths and Marks and Spencers. This time I get to be a little more positive and flag up the council’s ‘Beat the Credit Crunch’ seminar taking place tomorrow (Wednesday 18th March). The seminar is one in a series [...]
Wandsworth’s recession-beating package
There is a bit of a fashion for things like Recovery.gov and realhelpnow.gov.uk (although the latter apparently only includes Labour Party ‘help’) and I wonder whether I should offer recovery.jamescousins.com. While the council hasn’t developed a nifty front-end it has put together a substantial package of help and assistance for the borough’s residents and businesses [...]
Balham M&S definitely closing
Marks and Spencer have confirmed their decision to close their Balham Simply Food store. The store, which has been open for nearly six years, will close on 19 March. I know this is going to be a big disappointment to many Balham residents. And is a big disappointment to me, Balham is a Town Centre [...]
Clapham Junction improvements
The overall scheme, which has been in development since 2007, it too expensive for the council to undertake alone, but elements of it can be done. The suggestion is to look at the ‘traffic management’ since, by improving the way vehicles move through the junction it will improve the quality for all users, including pedestrians [...]
