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New Flightpaths Threat Tooting Bangs the Drum Owning Your First Home The magazine of Wandsworth Council Issue 173 September 2015 New flightpaths threat See page 4 Tooting bangs the drum See page 12-13 Owning your first home See page 20-21 Delivered to 140,000 homes - Balham Battersea Earlsfield Furzedown Putney Roehampton Southfields Tooting Wandsworth www.wandsworth.gov.uk Inside October 2015 news New flightpaths threat 4 Good news for cyclists 6 Tooting on the fast track 12-13 Community food growing awards 14 Wandsworth Gets Results annual report 16-17 Estate regeneration 18 Owning your first home 20-21 Helping people into work 23 50 years of the mobile library service. 26 regulars What’s On 27 Useful numbers 31 Cover: Outside Arts in Tooting, see pages 12-13. To obtain a copy of Brightside in large print or audio version pubs please telephone Protecting (020) 8871 7266 or email brightside The council is on course to give an extra @wandsworth.gov.uk layer of protection to more than 100 local YOUR BRIGHTSIDE Your Brightside is distributed by London Letterbox pubs in recognition of their historic, Marketing. We expect all copies of Brightside to be delivered to every home in the borough and pushed fully through the letterbox. This issue of Brightside is being architectural or community value. delivered from September 7 to September 11. Town hall planners are now preparing to publish ‘Article 4 Directions’ to cover a total Your next Brightside will be delivered in November. of 121 pubs which, if finally confirmed, means owners would need to apply for . If you don’t receive your copy call us on (020) 8871 permission before knocking them down or changing them into something else like a 7520. Brightside is the civic magazine of Wandsworth supermarket or estate agent. Wandsworth is set to be the first council in the country to Council. protect its local pub network on this scale. It is produced by the council’s corporate Pubs in line for this extra layer of protection include The Alma, The Ship and The Cat’s communications unit. It is the only publication delivered to every household in the borough. Back in Wandsworth, The Bricklayers Arms, Arab Boy and Railway in Putney, The We would like to thank all our advertisers for their Beehive in Battersea, The Trafalgar Arms, The Wheatsheaf and The Selkirk in Tooting and support. Brightside will consider display advertisements The Grove and The Regent in Balham. from non-council bodies (excluding recruitment) and reserves the right to decline advertisements. Pub owners have been informed about the proposed change to their planning rights The council neither accepts responsibility for the and they now have a chance to respond. The extra protection could come into force in content of nor endorses any non-council September 2016. advertisements. Deputy council leader Cllr Jonathan Cook, said: "Wandsworth residents love their pubs • Editorial (020) 8871 8902 but sadly we’ve lost some popular, thriving locals in recent years. Frustratingly the • Advertising (020) 8871 7266 council has not had the real powers needed to stop this from happening. If you have a comment about the magazine "We’ve set out to change that and with the help of CAMRA and many local residents please telephone: (020) 8871 8902/6173 we’re now close to achieving our goal. Our pubs are vital community assets and our or email: [email protected]. planning system should recognise their special value and significance.” Brightside is printed on environmentally friendly paper, please recycle. New flightpaths threat Ealing Hammersmith Brentford Battersea Putney Clapham Wandsworth Richmond Twickenham Earlsfield Tooting This is one of the new flight patterns being considered by Heathrow. The council is calling for clarity. Key Area potentially Council leader Ravi Govindia Battersea, Wandsworth Town, Wandsworth affected Common and Tooting. by aircraft updates reidents on the airport noise We do know that noise impacts will be expansion depate: Area not compounded by the withdrawal of the half-day affected The UK Airports Commission has break from flights which is not part of the proposed by noise published its final report which three runway operation. We also know that the airport and the airlines are reluctant to ban night Flight paths recommends that Heathrow is given flights so we have to expect planes will continue to permission to build a new runway. land from 4.30am each morning if the expansion The council wants to make sure plan goes ahead. Wandsworth residents understand It’s deeply frustrating that we cannot provide how this project could affect them you with a more accurate picture of how before the Government makes Wandsworth will be affected by a three runway Heathrow. The Airports Commission has been the final decision. studying the plan for more than two years but Heathrow’s proposal involves building a third failed to pin down the critical issues of runway and creating a series of new flightpaths flightpaths and flight patterns. which fan out across London. They include low The council is calling on the Government to flying arrival routes over parts of Wandsworth reject the commission’s deeply biased which have never been affected by aircraft noise assessment and to insist that detailed flightpaths before. We can’t tell you with certainty where the are published before a decision is made on planes will fly as this vital information is being which airport to expand. withheld. Instead only indicative routes (pictured To join our campaign sign up at above) have been published which show flights coming in over Roehampton, Putney, Earlsfield, www.wandsworth.gov.uk/aviation 4 BrightSide wandsworth.gov.uk/brightside WANDSWORTH CIVIC Honouring AWARDS Festival fun unsung heroes Do you know an unsung local hero? You could nominate them for a 2015 Wandsworth Civic Award. The awards are run by the Mayor of Wandsworth as a way of saying thank you to local people who have volunteered their services over a long period of time to help others, including charity workers, community activists or just someone who acts as a helping hand to friends or neighbours - anyone whose tireless work has made a difference to the area. How to nominate Your nomination must include the nominee’s name, phone number and email address, Hurry plus your name and contact details, and nominations details of why they deserve an award. close on Deadline for entries is October 10. October 10 • Complete our online form • Email [email protected]. • Send your entries by post to Wandsworth Civic Awards, Room 144, Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street, London SW18 2PU Finalists chosen from the nominations will be invited to attend a People in Roehampton special award ceremony at the town hall in November. and Battersea were For more information visit treated to the SW11 and www.wandsworth.gov.uk/civicawards. the Feel Good festivals this summer. The council partnered with Big Local SW11 and Regenerate to deliver the festivals featuring family activities including a smoothie bike, food stalls, face Where performance counts painting, sports and dance taster sessions, live performances and Bathroom Specialists, with over 23 years’ experience, music, plus health advice and we have BRONZE, SILVER or GOLD Installations providing full information on what’s bathroom renovation. Contact us now for a free quotation. happening locally. See page 18 for more M. 07946 420 055 information about estate T/F. 020 8788 8063 regeneration in both areas. E. [email protected] W. www.aquamaxservices.com www.thameschristiancollege.org.uk For full list of open mornings, enrolment and fee details contact 020 7228 3933 Thames Christian College, Wye Street, London SW11 2HB. Smaller school. Five minutes’ walk from Clapham Junction. Bigger opportunities. OPEN MORNING Personal attention. Great results. Affordable. SATURDAY 3rd OCTOBER Scholarships available 10.00-13.00 BrightSide wandsworth.gov.uk/brightside 5 Good news for cyclists There’s loads going on in the brighter borough to make cycling easier and safer A new draft cycling strategy has been A new cycle-friendly roundabout is now in published, which proposes 22 targets for use at Queens Circus in north Battersea. action, including This includes segregated lanes and separate traffic signals • A review of the borough cycle route network which keep cyclists apart from the main traffic flow at busy exits. Vehicles turning left to exit the roundabout are held while bikes • Improving the amount, type and location of cycle parking are allowed to continue • Free cycle training straight-on, reducing the • Working with the police and others to improve road user danger of a collision. behaviour Wandsworth Council and • Reducing conflict between cyclists and HGVs Transport for London have There is still time to comment on the draft plan. worked together on the Visit www.wandworth.gov.uk/cycling project which is thought to be the first of its kind in London. Wandsworth Council is running a design Another eleven 20mph zones have been competition for a new pedestrian and cycle introduced across the borough to improve bridge to span the Thames between Nine safety for cyclists and pedestrians. Elms and Pimlico. Councillors approved the zones after they were given the This is thought to be the first bridge in the centre of a major thumbs up by local people. Large areas of Wandsworth will be world city designed around the needs of cyclists and covered, including the Toastrack, the Southfields Grid, much of pedestrians. The images show the final four proposals, with the Nightingale Ward and the whole of Thamesfield Ward. winner due to be announced later this year. Find out more at www.nepbridgecompetition.co.uk. Buro Happold Ltd with Marks Barfield Architects, J&L Gibbons Landscape Architects, Gardiner and Theobald Ove Arup & Partners Ltd with AL_A, Gross Max, Equals Consulting and Movement Strategies Ove Arup & Partners Ltd with Hopkins Architects Bystrup Architecture Design and Engineering with Robin Snell and Grant Associates & Partners, Sven Ole Hansen ApS, Aarsleff and AF̊ Lighting 6 BrightSide wandsworth.gov.uk/brightside in brief Reflecting the Wandle Amateur photographers are invited to enter a competition to capture an aspect of the River Wandle.
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