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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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Wandsworth is a growing town centre
Once again the Local Data Company are trying to make headlines with their regular report on the state of Britain’s high streets. This time, their story has been a little overwhelmed by the Cabinet reshuffle, Paralympics and the British Retail Consortium’s sales figures. And once again I feel the need to highlight that the Local
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Back Boris
Until motivated by my letter from Brett Harrison yesterday, I don’t think I’d posted anything about the Mayoral and GLA elections this time around, so this is my last chance. I’ve tweeted a little about it, but not that much. What I have found myself doing (perhaps a little too often) is the campaigning. I
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Where’s the grit in Wandsworth?
View Grit bin locations in a larger map Following last night’s snow-fall I thought it might be worth re-publishing the locations of grit-bins in the borough. The Google map details where they all are (roughly, but they are big yellow things, so I’m confident it gives more than enough information for you to find them)
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Posted in Wandsworth
Also tagged Boris, Council, grit, gritting, ice, pavements, roads, snow
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More grit bins
View Grit bin locations in a larger map I’ve updated my map of grit bins now the council has expanded the scheme. The original 20 were well used so there’s another load being dropped around the borough this week. As before they are placed in areas that are not part of the council’s priority gritting
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Cheggers!
Looking through photos I’ve taken recently I can’t believe I didn’t post anything about the pro-celebrity football that Wandsworth hosted at Battersea Park as part of Fostering Fortnight. While I can’t say I knew any of the people playing football, I did recognise Keith Chegwin, who was offering a rather unique style of commentary on
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Labour’s flexible, and political, approach to council tax
Today’s news that all the Labour councils in London are to freeze council tax next year (I say all, they only have eight) came as something of a shock. First of all, I don’t think London Labour have a particularly good track record of keeping council tax low. If you take the inner London Labour
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Open air opera at Battersea Reach
Last night saw an incredibly successful event organised by Wandsworth Town Centre Partnership (with support from St George). I made some fairly feeble attempts at recording elements – an AudioBoo: Listen! And a video, although distance and the light mean phone cameras are not going to produce great results it does give a good impression
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Posted in Regeneration, Wandsworth
Also tagged Battersea Reach, Riverside, Thames, Town Centre Partnership
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Honour for former Wandsworth libraries head
I was really pleased to see that Jane Allen, who recently retired as the head of libraries in Wandsworth has been given Membership of the Order of the British Empire and becomes Jane Allen MBE. Wandsworth has an excellent libraries service (and going to get better with the Tooting Library refurbishment and new Wandsworth town
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What do you want? Go on, tell me…
This blog is coming up to its half-birthday. Well, sort of – there are all sorts of dates I can use, for example the blog went live on 17 December, a great time when everyone is thinking about Christmas and no-one gives a stuff about a mere councillor blog. However, before it went live I
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Swine flu briefings for Neighbourhood Watch co-ordinators
I’m very proud of the work the council does in support of Neighbourhood Watch (unlike most other areas the council, rather than the police, provide support Neighbourhood Watch in Wandsworth) and particularly proud of the opportunities we’ve given for co-ordinators to take on enhanced roles. Much of this is provided through extra training for volunteers
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Posted in Community Safety
Also tagged Neighbourhood Watch, NHS, pandemic, Ram Street, swine flu
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