On Saturday 1 June, as Part of the Wandsworth Heritage Festival, David Kirk led some 35 people down and around East Hill to the High Street, discussing a variety of sites nearby of ‘entertainment’, the theme of this year’s festival, ‘recreation’ of all sorts, some listed buildings, the Huguenot past and the changing character of the area. The peace of the Huguenot Burial Ground was noted as a contrast to the incessant traffic!
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Wandsworth ward boundaries set to change
The Local Government Boundary Commission for England is asking local people for their help to draw up a new pattern of council wards for Wandsworth Council.
The consultation to consider re-drawing ward boundaries across the council is the second part of an electoral review taking place across London. It is twenty years since these arrangements were last considered, and there have been many change to local neighbourhoods in that time.
The commission has also announced that following the first part of the review Wandsworth should have 58 councillors in future – two fewer than the current arrangements.
To take part in the consultation visit consultation.lgbce.org.uk/node/16790
Pocket Living wins a 2019 RIBA award
Pocket Living’s affordable housing scheme in Mapleton Crescent has been awarded the prize for its attractive design, high standard of accommodation and pioneering construction method.
The development of 53 first time buyer affordable flats and 36 homes for the open market is beside the River Wandle south of the Southside Shopping Centre. It was built using the latest modular construction techniques, which sees completed flats being fully assembled at a factory before being transported to site and installed by crane. Modular construction has shaved around six months off the tower’s total build time
Fixed penalty notices for breaching Wandsworth Common by-laws
Starting Monday May 20th 2019, the Parks and Events Police are authorised to issue Fixed Penalty Notices for breaches of the bylaws applying to local Parks and Commons. People who misbehave and commit anti-social behaviour in est open spaces face being handed on-the-spot fines.
The council is introducing changes to the way irresponsible and unreasonable behaviour (including the bye law prohibiting the mending of chairs!) is dealt with. This change is designed to free up the borough’s parks police officers to carry out additional patrols.
The Society was consulted about this proposal and agreed and welcomed the change.
Music for Minds
The Society’s meeting for the Wandsworth Arts Fringe on 9 May saw some 60 people learning to sing together – in the way that Singing with Friends bring together people living with dementia. Anyone passing in the street outside would assume that we were at a choir rehearsal complete with a glorious descant! The meeting stared with an uplifting presentation on the way the music engages dementia sufferers.