labourinwandsworthAs a result of the hard work of Labour councillors in Wandsworth all children in the borough will receive free swimming during the summer half term in celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee. The scheme runs from Saturday, June 2 to Sunday, June 10 at all leisure centres in Wandsworth. Cllr Boswell, pictured above celebrating with [...]
Labour councillors are disappointed that only one Wandsworth School is to benefit from the Priority School Building Programme, announced today by Michael Gove. After significant delays in announcing the chosen schools, it was today revealed that Chestnut Grove School, a local Academy, is the only school to be chosen in Wandsworth to receive funding under [...]
Wandsworth’s Labour councillors are pleased to support the bid by London Play to save Battersea Park Adventure Playground. London Play are a charity organisation, now proposing a welcome plan to keep the threatened playground in Battersea Park open, as a fully-staffed adventure playground. London Play’s plan would see the Council cease its plans to disassemble [...]
Labour Councillors in Tooting and Graveney have recently been contacted by residents throughout the area who are concerned about the possible closure of Derinton Road Community Centre. Labour Group Leader and Graveney Councillor Rex Osborn said: ‘We believe the Centre is an extremely important resource which must be protected and retained for use by local [...]
After Labour raised concerns about the Government’s unfunded promise to increase dramatically the number of childcare places for two-year olds, Wandsworth Tories have agreed to a cross-party lobby to get the funding to pay for the plan. Labour’s new education speaker, Sheila Boswell, gave this speech to Council on Wednesday night: ‘Big promises to increase [...]
By Cllr. Simon Hogg This week I was excited to tour the Olympic Park. As I missed out on tickets to the athletics, this is the closest I will get! There is good and bad news about the Olympic effect here in Battersea THE BAD NEWS 1. An Olympic-only lane (official vehicles only 7am to [...]
Boris walks away from angry residents in Clapham Junction after the riots last summer….
A 4.5% swing to Labour was not enough to win the GLA seat, but Leonie Cooper and her team fought a great campaign. Conservative 65,179 Labour 55,216 Lib Dem 11,904
If you don’t know where your polling station is ring one of our offices. If you forgot to post your postal vote, you can put it in the ballot box at the polling station. You do not need your polling card to vote. For info or to help out ring: Tooting Labour 020 8767 9660 Putney Labour 0208 [...]
Wandsworth has the highest council rents in the country but is a low spender on repairs – our tenants don’t get value for money.
