Caring about Wandsworth's buildings, open spaces, rivers and transport.
On 17 February Gill Farnsworth current Vice-Chair (and past Chair) of the South Bank Ramblers gave an interesting talk over Zoom about their origins, achievements and wide role today. Without them we might not have had the unparallelled access to the English countryside through National Parks and Rights of Way. Their work continues, repairing footpaths, installing footpath gates and ensuring rights of way are mapped and kept accessible.
The talk can be viewed here:
On 13 January Simon Saville presented a well attended talk on the London National Park City project. A link to the talk can be found here
There is also a set of slides which show more statistics:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16K–y3FydGJzMX196WGLvbt5AOCJSGSZ/view?usp=sharing
The Society have lodged the following objection to additional flats on this site
The Society have lodged the attached objection to application 2021/5474.
The 11 November meeting reviewed the work and play of the Wandsworth Society over 50 years, from objections to the “motorway box” in 1971 and cyclostyled newsletters through to today’s objections to tall buildings and meetings and visits on zoom throughout the pandemic. To view the meeting click below