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Labour council warned of ‘potential to mislead’ taxpayers over frozen tax claim

The UK Statistics Authority has written to Wandsworth Council about the claim it is freezing council tax for the fourth consecutive year.

Evening Standard

'Porkies' row as London council proposes cheapest council tax bills in country for fourth year

Average bills for south London council will increase to £1,020 a year - half the amount in most other London boroughs

Evening Standard

Wandsworth unveils 'growth plan' which could see 14,000 new homes in next decade

The scheme includes plans for 8,400 new homes in Nine Elms, 3,000 more homes in Clapham Junction and 3,000 extra homes in Wandsworth Town

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London's largest park since the 2012 Olympics opens along with new village

The 32-acre park has a pavilion café, amphitheatre, fitness trail, play areas, ponds and 700 new trees

Evening Standard

The surprise UK destination rapidly becoming a golf holiday hotspot

Beautiful beaches, swanky new hotels and a World Heritage Site - what’s not to like about this seaside destination?

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'Excessive' Battersea riverside tower block plans rejected by councillors

Councillors voted unanimously to refuse planning permission for the development at a Wandsworth council planning meeting held on Thursday

Evening Standard

Cyclist killed in Putney HGV crash named as high-flyer 'living his best life' in London

Tributes paid to young accountant as cycle campaigners hold vigil to demand road safety improvements

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'Dirty' 100m Clapham Junction overpass set for £4.5m transformation next year

Plans to overhaul a ‘dirty’ underpass in Clapham Junction where women feel unsafe are moving forward.

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London's oldest lido reopens to public after £4million makeover

Five-time Paralympic gold medalist Ellie Simmonds unveiled a plaque at Tooting Bec Lido to celebrate its reopening

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Man admits brazen £350 dine and dash fraud from two London restaurants

A South London man has admitted to racking up unpaid bills of nearly £350 after dining and dashing at two venues earlier this year.

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Wandsworth council sets London's lowest council tax as more boroughs prepare to issue £2,000 bills

Kingston – which shares a border with Wandsworth in Roehampton Vale - is again expected to set the highest bills

Evening Standard

Four good news climate stories from 2023

We don’t want to give you the wrong idea: things are bad. Antarctic ice sheets are melting, the fossil fuel lobby was everywhere at the COP talks, and even solutions like electric cars have their problems. And that just covers the past few weeks of this newsletter.

The Conversation

Wandsworth bridge to close to traffic for 10 weeks over summer

The 83-year-old bridge needs some essential repairs – but will remain open to pedestrians

Evening Standard

Wind turbines are already skyscraper-sized – is there any limit to how big they will get?

In 2023, some 100 miles off the coast of north-east England, the world’s largest wind turbines will start generating electricity. This first phase of the Dogger Bank offshore wind farm development uses General Electric’s Haliade X, a turbine that stands more than a quarter of a kilometre high from the…

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Wandsworth Council begin seizing ‘dumped’ Lime e-bikes

Council takes action after claims bikes are causing ‘unacceptable obstructions’ on pavements

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London elections 2022: Wandsworth Council goes to Labour for first time in 44 years

Labour celebrates in Wandsworth

The Independent UK

‘The man is a clown’: Voters give their verdict on polling day in key London boroughs

Rory Sullivan talks to voters in Wandsworth while Maryam Zakir-Hussein takes the polling day temperature in Barnet

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Will partygate fallout sound death knell for Tory rule in Wandsworth after 44 years?

Labour have flagship Conservative borough in south London in their sights when voters go to the polls on May 5

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Labour hopes for ‘symbolic’ win in Wandsworth – Margaret Thatcher’s favourite Tory council

Once hailed by the Tory right as the deathbed of municipal socialism, this London borough is a key Labour target, as Adam Forrest explains

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London galling: could Partygate sink the Tories’ Wandsworth flagship?

‘It’s not Boris on the ballot paper,’ activists campaigning for the local elections are having to tell voters

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