AN INDEPENDENT SOURCE OF NEWS, BY AND FOR RESIDENTS ROEHAMPTON VOICE @RoehamptonVoice ISSUE 41 AUTUMN 2020 2 EU nationals need to secure Autumn on their status to continue living the Common in the UK after Brexit by JOHN HORROCKS by CITIZENS ADVICE Walking is good for you! That’s why a group of Roehampton residents like to meet each month for a guided walk across Putney Heath and Wimbledon Common. On the first Sunday of each month we gather at the Shell petrol filling station on Roehampton Lane at 11am. We then set out at a gentle pace, to walk to the Windmill, and If you or anyone in your family is a European citizen, you need to take on, maybe to Wimbledon Village action to secure your right to live, work, study and receive benefits and or to the playing fields at Putney services after Brexit. Citizens Advice Wandsworth can help you apply Vale. Then it’s a bus ride back to to the EU Settlement Scheme (settled and pre-settled status). Roehampton.

The EU Settlement Scheme (settled and pre-settled status) is free and Come and join us. Everyone is open to EU citizens and their non-EU family members. To make a welcome! The walk is led by Cathy successful application you just need to prove your identity, prove that Chandler and John Horrocks. you live in the UK and declare any criminal convictions. Wellingtons are advised if it is wet. The next walks are on Sunday For more information visit gov.uk/eu-settled-status 1st November and Sunday 6th

December. You should apply before 31 December 2020, as this is when your rights could change. You need to apply even if you have a Permanent The Windmill on Wimbledon Common Residence card, as your residence card will not be valid after 31 December 2020. You are also advised to apply if you have Indefinite Leave to Remain, as you’ll get a more secure status.

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me, I always want to help people and Regenerate Rise as they have A star of our facing trauma; I guess it’s because proper systems and safeguarding I’ve had some trauma in my own life.” worked out,” she says, “otherwise community volunteers could end up taking on response to Back in March, Lynne joined the too much. But these local charities Wandsworth-wide mutual aid and services need to be promoted Coronavirus network, but felt strongly that more so everyone knows what they by ANGUS ROBERTSON Roehampton needed its own online can do to support.” platform: “Not for chit-chat,” she There have been many examples says, “but to enable people to help Looking forward, Lynne is of Roehampton organisations each other, source and share useful concerned about a spike in poor and individuals responding to the and official information.” Lynne’s mental health. “Sometimes it feels coronavirus pandemic and helping energetic and assertive approach like Roehampton is a bit lost, and local people in need. recruited others (including it’s very worrying that there are this correspondent and local so many vulnerable people here One such person is Alton resident Roehampton businesses) to join. with little support.” Still doing Lynne Capocciama. Whilst Lynne is There are now over 400 members her bit, Lynne has returned to a keen to point out that many people in this group and it continues as a project that she started pre-Covid, have given their time for others in local online noticeboard. called ”Estate Art”. This aims to the last six months – “there have make participation in art activity been hundreds of other soldiers A theme throughout Lynne’s more accessible to Roehampton running around helping people” - approach has been to ensure residents, to help people’s mental her list of projects is impressive. volunteers are not overloaded, wellbeing. As we spoke, Lynne was Lynne initiated the Roehampton which she achieves by linking into in the middle of organising the Covid-19 Support Facebook page local community organisations and Roehampton Sing-Along: (along with Jonathan Palma of services. “It was really important a series of five summer music Citizens Advice Wandsworth). to refer people in need to events to bring our local By making personal approaches Wandsworth’s Community Hub and community together. to local store managers, she to organisations like Regenerate supported local charities Regenerate and Regenerate Rise to source food donations. She helped to deliver the Community Knock newsletter. And she enabled local businesses to reach local people during lockdown. All of this whilst she worked in a care home throughout a most difficult time!

“It began when I volunteered to help local people on the Nextdoor app, back in March,” says Lynne. “Jonathan Palma then linked me to a lady who was coming out of hospital, after cancer treatment, and moving into a flat that had absolutely nothing.” In two days, Lynne sourced her furniture, equipment and supplies.

So, what motivated Lynne so strongly? “I was concerned about elderly people stuck at home, unable or scared to go out to get food or even a toilet roll. It’s just 4

Redrow and Regeneration – on the council’s planning website to Redrow’s planning application What went wrong? made in May 2020. The objections to the proposals (254) vastly outweigh by JOHN HORROCKS the expressions of support (12). Redrow have failed to convince the Roehampton community that their Redrow have decided to withdraw “Have Redrow taken on more than plans are sound and appropriate for from the agreement they entered they can chew in Roehampton?” an the . into in 2017 with Wandsworth article in Roehampton Voice (Winter Borough Council - to be the council’s 2018) asked. The Putney Society, as the amenity development partner in the scheme society for Putney and Roehampton, to ”regenerate” the central area of the In June 2018, a big display of has written to Cllr Ravi Govindia, Alton Estate. This is a major blow to plans organised by Redrow held in the Leader of Wandsworth Borough the council’s ambitious plan for the the Cornerstone (the Parish Hall) Council, to urge that the Redrow Estate, and leaves the council in a indicated, for the first time, the design plans for the redevelopment of very awkward position. proposals that Redrow were working the centre of the Alton Estate be up. The inspiration for their plans abandoned and a fresh approach be How did this come about? Why seemed to be the borough council’s adopted for the regeneration scheme. has Redrow decided they cannot Doddington Estate in Battersea Park The Society criticised the plans for continue with the scheme? Road, with its tall, regimented blocks failing to meet Zero Carbon targets of flats set over podium-deck parking and encroaching on green space, Think back, three years ago, when the provision below. You had to look very and instead recommended that extra council announced that Redrow had closely at Redrow’s plans to find that floors be added to existing low-rise been selected to partner the council 9-storey blocks of flats were being blocks. in this enormous redevelopment. proposed for the Alton Estate. ”Who are Redrow?” people asked. Earlier this year, the coronavirus “What have they done in our borough The “regeneration” scheme had pandemic hit the property before?” ”Why hasn’t one of the big clearly changed significantly from development world hard and created well-known development companies what had, previously, been intended challenging financial problems for all been given the job?” It was significant for the Alton Estate - as set out in the developers. Too many problems for that the council gave the people of council’s earlier Alton Master Plan and some, it seems. When Cllr Govindia Roehampton no explanation for this Supplementary Planning Document. selected Redrow as the council’s curious choice of developer. It was probably at this point that development partner, he was Redrow lost the support of people clearly taking a gamble. Gamblers The challenges of handling such a in Roehampton for the regeneration sometimes win, sometimes they lose. big redevelopment scheme are well concept - as it was working out under beyond the capabilities of our staff- Redrow. Just look at the response He lost! reduced borough council. That is why a commercial developer partner is The new block of council flats being built on Bessborough Road, Alton East needed - to provide the broad range of experience, back-up and skills in development which our council lacks.

But, a year after Redrow’s appointment, it was becoming clear that things were not going well in working up the detailed plans for the redevelopment. Redrow admitted that they had no development scheme which we could visit to learn lessons of relevance to the Alton Estate. They sent people to meetings of the Roehampton Partnership (the body organised by the council to bring all interests in Roehampton together) who failed to impress. They seemed to lose staff at a curiously high rate. Their promised planning application for the redevelopment was some eighteen months late in submission (no explanation given). 5 To Bridge or Not to Bridge? by ALEX GAUTIER

Why do we even have to ask this question? Obviously, I’m thinking of Hammersmith Bridge. We have gone from no vehicle traffic to not even pedestrians and cyclists crossing the bridge now. So what happened? I usually write about buses and know from communications with TfL that the main route from Roehampton to Central is via Hammersmith, and with the complete closure of the bridge, this is now a disaster. Even when it was pedestrians and cyclists only, many people enjoyed the tranquility of crossing the river, with its wonderful views, but now that has been stopped too.

There were other bridges built in the 19th Century that were inspired by Hammersmith Bridge, so I wondered how those bridges were doing these days. One crosses the Danube at Hammersmith Bridge when it was in better repair (Flavio Ferrari / Wikimedia Commons ) Budapest in Hungary, and another is much closer to home in Marlow, done? Admittedly Hammersmith asking that they build a temporary Buckinghamshire. I wondered if those Bridge will need a lot more money, pedestrian and cycle bridge to bridges were experiencing similar but I can’t help wondering what help, but their response was: “In problems. According to a very kind would happen if Wandsworth were in this instance, having taken account lady I spoke to in the Hungarian charge. of available capabilities, we have Embassy, in Hungary traffic still suggested that the task may be more crosses that bridge, though only In the meantime, Hammersmith & suited to a civil agency or private during working hours, with the bridge Fulham are looking into the possibility company.” Great. opening to art festivals and cultural of providing ferry services across events at evenings and weekends. the river for school children. Haven’t Just before writing this in early There are repair works in the they noticed that the Thames River September 2020, I read a BBC news planning stage, but the bridge still is tidal and boarding a ferry would article about the A68 road near Fala functions. Marlow Bridge still works, depend on the level of the river? The in subsiding 65 feet down, no problem. It has undergone repairs mind boggles as to how much money with all traffic having to be diverted. and has a weight limit, but it still would be claimed for personal Contractors worked together functions. A heatwave did not seem injuries if adults and children (surely around the clock to reinforce the to cause cracks that enforced the they wouldn’t expect children to go foundations, rebuild and resurface closure of those two bridges. on their own) were to try to board the road, and it reopened in less than boats from slippery walkways. Why a month. Lucky them not to have Hammersmith Bridge is owned by don’t they just build a bridge??? Hammersmith & Fulham Councillors Hammersmith & Fulham Council, in charge! and from what I understand, TfL It only seems to be Richmond that is supposed to be involved in its is proactively trying to come up At long last, the Government has maintenance. I can’t help but wonder with realistic solutions. They have decided to take control of repairing why it is that when Putney Bridge firstly said they will not charge any the bridge. I assume they will get needed repairs, Wandsworth Council fees they would normally expect the job done, but I can’t help asking got the funding, closed the bridge, for construction/repair works on if they really have to leave future and fixed it in less time than they their side of the bridge. I can’t find management of Hammersmith Bridge anticipated. How come Wandsworth, any evidence that Hammersmith & in the hands of Hammersmith & who charge almost half in Council Fulham will match that generosity. Fulham Council/TfL. Until they bridge taxes compared to Hammersmith Richmond even wrote to the Army the gap, unfortunately we are left to & Fulham, managed to get the job and Secretary of State for Defence MIND THE GAP. 6

For the last fifteen years the Alton a community-centred and bottom- We Need a Estate regeneration project has up approach. been mainly motivated by the People’s need to deal with the dilapidated Regeneration should mean an Plan state of some of the modernist investment in the restoration, blocks of flats, many of which rather than the erasure, of existing by ALTON ACTION Wandsworth Council has failed architecture. The Alton Estate is to maintain. The regeneration a site of historical interest and Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic plans seen so far have focused on has a diverse mix of housing that crisis and anticipating yet another maximising developers’ potential is sympathetic to the landscape. economic recession, both profits on a lucrative site on Some housing blocks are listed at nationally and globally, we need the outskirts of one of the most Grade II, the historic Mount Clare to focus on the immediate needs expensive cities in the world. at Grade I, and parkland green of the people and abandon the areas have been recently listed at unsustainable drive for private Now is the time to allow the Grade II. The “Alton Conservation economic gain. Looking around people who call the Alton Estate Area Appraisal & Management us and seeing what is being built home a say in its future. The Strategy” report recently and how the people live, it is Council has said it intends to produced by Wandsworth Council clear: the “housing crisis” is not proceed with all the new building supports our vision: https://www. one of spaces available but one exactly as planned, simply with wandsworth.gov.uk/media/1575/ of affordability. We are seeing the a different developer. We object alton_caaandms.pdf. The report growth of a world only a few can to these demolitions, which will advocates restoration sympathetic comfortably afford to live in, while replace existing architecture to the existing architecture and the majority are expected to put with expensive new-build landscape, and speaks of the up with it and struggle on. and relocate many need to reclaim green spaces for By getting together we can begin of the current residents. Instead, the community. to change this. we want to find options for the renovation and improvement of The People’s Plan developed by We are Alton Action – a new group the estate: renovating the blocks the residents of Cressingham started by Alton Estate residents of flats, creating more and better Gardens in shows that and local activists to foster the community and business spaces, community-led planning works. creation of a community plan by, and improving the transport links. With technical support from a and for, the people of the Alton This can only happen in dialogue team of architects, surveyors, Estate to deliver the improvements with local people, businesses and sustainability and financial that residents need. experts, and with commitment to experts, it is a realistic alternative

Alton Action posters to Lambeth Council’s proposals to demolish the estate, which were likely to result in the community being displaced. The residents made it clear to Lambeth Council that they wanted their estate to be repaired rather than demolished. The council tried to dismiss and ignore residents’ concerns, so the residents brought a Judicial Review and won - forcing the council to review all the options. The Cressingham People's Plan shows there is an alternative, proposing a way forward that respects the residents’ wishes, addresses the council’s financial concerns, provides additional housing and keeps people in the community they 7 love. Learn more here: http:// cressinghampeoplesplan.org.uk A tale of two pubs by JOHN HORROCKS We – Alton Action – are a The Green Man pub at the top of Putney Hill and the Telegraph Inn in the nonpartisan volunteer group middle of Putney Heath have both seen recent extensive refurbishment working for the restoration of works, including major alterations and some extensions. In each case, the fabric of the estate and the the building works have been carried out by the contractor, the Stenning provision of social housing, Group. But there, the similarities end. access to green spaces and services which benefit the The Telegraph closed, suddenly and unexpectedly, early in 2019. We community. We are not associated learned that there had been a dispute over the rent. The landlord wanted with any property developers or a big increase - but the pub operator felt unable to pay, so shut down. property investors – our concerns A new operator came along: “part of the Brunning & Price family of are the current and future pubs,” the notice on the fence says. They have pubs/restaurants across housing, social and environmental the country, having spread south from the north of England. Planning needs of the residents of the Alton permission for alterations was obtained and the works commenced. Estate. Our aim is to convince “Opening in Spring 2020,” the hoarding around the pub announced. But the council that we need a then came the coronavirus and the building works were halted. community-focused investment About this time, the Green Man closed - after planning permission had that meets the housing, social been obtained for a refurbishment and expansion scheme. It is a Youngs and environmental needs of the pub - and they decided to press on with their building work, despite the people who live on the estate coronavirus lockdown. The job done, the pub reopened early in August. while maintaining its architectural Just in time for the Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s “Eat Out to Help Out” and cultural integrity. This will scheme. Local people responded enthusiastically! mean letting go of, and leaving behind, the council’s previous The alterations at the Green Man have been a big success and the pub is plans, which failed to do this. doing splendidly. In good weather, its kitchen garden is a very attractive This will mean creating a new place for a leisurely lunch! In the meantime, the building works at The People’s Plan for the Alton Estate. Telegraph have resumed and are progressing slowly. We are promised Once drafted, the People’s Plan that the pub will be reopening in time for Christmas. Will it be as good as will need further design, costing the Green Man? and the support of the council and Authority to deliver it.

The Higher Education Innovation Fund Research England (managed by UCL Innovation & Enterprise) has recently awarded a grant for the development of the Alton Estate's People' Plan project and we will be partnering to facilitate it via workshops and community- Green Man pub led research.

Alton Action is calling out to all residents, schools, faith groups, volunteer and community organisations, and other public and advisory bodies concerned with housing and social provision to get in touch! [email protected] @AltonAction facebook.com/altonaction The Telegraph pub, artist’s impression 8 The Historic Residents of a Modern University Campus – Part I by GILLY KING

The campus stretches over 53 acres and has fourteen Grade I or Grade II listed buildings and structures, four of which are Georgian villas. An unusual collection for a modern university! The stories of the lives of the historic residents of this modern University campus are fascinating.

Richard Weston,

1st Earl of Portland, KG Richard Weston was Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Lord Treasurer of England under James Dr William Harvey I and Charles I, being one of the most influential figures in the early death in 1635. Roehampton Great Dr William Harvey years of Charles's rule and the House stood on the grounds where William Harvey was personal architect of many of the policies Grove House is, and some of the physician to King Charles I and that enabled him to rule without foundations of the Great House can famous for his theory of the raising taxes through parliament. be seen within the cellars of Grove circulation of the blood. Weston lived in Roehampton House.

Great House from 1625 until his He spent the last 11 years of Weston commissioned a bronze his life at his brother’s house in equestrian statue of Charles I from Roehampton (a Jacobean mansion Hubert le Sueur, for which he that once stood on the grounds of paid £600, and which may have Digby Stuart College). Saddened been set up in the grounds. It was by the defeat of his beloved the first permanent equestrian master Charles I, shattered by monument made in Britain. By the King's execution in 1649 and 1644 Roehampton Great House debarred by the Parliamentarians was owned by Sir Thomas Dawes, from exercising his functions at a royalist sympathiser, from whom St Bartholomew’s Hospital, he the estate was sequestered, and accepted the hospitality of his the bronze statue was confiscated! brother Eliab and devoted himself It was sold to a metalworker in to research work. Dr Harvey died Holborn, John Ryvett, with orders in Roehampton in 1657, and was to break it up. It was saved and later escorted to his burial place at bought by Charles II. Since 1675 it Hemel Hempstead by the Fellows has stood in Trafalgar Square, on of the Royal College of Physicians, the spot where the regicides were an organisation of which he had executed in 1662, looking down to been the most famous President. the spot in Whitehall where the King Bronze equestrian statue of Charles I, in Trafalgar Square was executed in 1649. 9

Parkstead House in 1816 five years before Harriet’s death

Benjamin Goldsmid Henrietta Ponsonby, Eliab Harvey’s Jacobean manor Countess of Bessborough was destroyed by fire in 1795 and a (Harriet) magnificent Neoclassical villa was Harriet Ponsonby (née Spencer) A Sketch of the young Lady Jane Digby built nearby for Benjamin Goldsmid. was an infamous resident of He lived at this villa, Elm Grove, Parkstead (now Whitelands Lady Jane Digby until his death in 1808. The records College). She was the wife of the of Benjamin’s time at Roehampton Jane Digby was ”The Beauty of Her 3rd Earl of Bessborough, a Whig are interesting and abundant. His Age”. In 1824, when very young hostess, gambler, and notorious great wealth and open-handed and very naïve, she married Lord lover. She lived at Parkstead House generosity earned him the title Ellenborough and lived at Elm from 1793 to 1821. Her liaison with of "The Benevolent Jew", and his Grove (formerly the residence the Earl of Granville* produced two influence in the financial world of Benjamin Goldsmid). The illegitimate children. Her legitimate brought him visitors from every marriage was never happy, and daughter was Lady Caroline Lamb, rank of life. Pitt, the Prime Minister, in 1830, after Jane was involved who spent much of her childhood who lived in Roehampton village, in a scandalous affair, it ended at Roehampton. Harriet was a direct was often at Elm Grove, and Lord in a notorious divorce. ”For ancestor of Lady Diana Spencer. Nelson, a close friend, was a weeks [after the divorce] the frequent visitor. Benjamin Goldsmid name of Lady Ellenborough was *The Earl of Granville made many was subject to fits of melancholia in every newspaper and Jane’s Regency women swoon over his and in 1808, during an acute misdemeanours became the remarkable good looks. He served attack, he took his own life. He was breakfast-table tittle-tattle of the his country in several embassy mourned by all, and King George III entire country, causing her name to postings over the course of his himself "rendered to his memory a become a byword for scandalous successful diplomatic career. behaviour for generations.” She marked respect and grief”. fled to Europe, and after two more marriages and many affairs she finally settled in Syria, where she married a Bedouin sheik 20 years her junior. She died of fever and dysentery in Damascus on 11 August 1881, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery there.

Protestant Cemetery, Damascus The Seat of Benjamin Goldsmid, Esq., 1804 10

in Kenya and Romania. That’s and Cornwall, down to Land’s End Regenerate where the Feel Good mobile coffee and across through shop came in, once the lockdown and Bournemouth to finally end in Cycle measures were eased. Whilst the Brighton. 800 miles over 12 days 800 miles Feel Good mobile coffee unit was a using only the power of our legs. success, the need for employment So it began: The South West Way. was increasing for some of the from London There is something very liberating young people of Roehampton. We about travelling by bicycle. The to Brighton… desperately wanted to get another closeness to your surroundings, tuk-tuk out on the London roads, so the long way not being encased in a car, all while that we could continue to provide moving faster than anyone could the same level of employment for round ever run. It is the most efficient way young people that we did before by NAHWAND JAFF to travel vast distances without a the lockdown measures. motor. Combine that with a group Whilst the Covid-19 pandemic This is why we decided to create of people sharing the common seemed to have stopped the world and take part in a fundraising goal of completing a challenge, in its tracks, our usual Regenerate activity. Usually, our fundraising and you are gifted with a level adventures also had to be put on trips would take us abroad. of camaraderie found in elite- hold. Our social enterprise, The We even had a trip to Portugal level group sports. We started in Feel Good Bakery, had to halt the planned, to walk the Camino Roehampton, heading out of the production of sandwiches due Portugues pilgrimage route. This city, watching the landscape slowly to the closure of the offices that had, of course, been cancelled. change over 150 miles before were our main clients. Where most As the Government's restrictions we reached the coast. Whilst office workers were now working were eased and we were allowed that was already tough, once we from home, there was no longer a to go on “staycations”, the idea reached Devon and travelled south high demand for our sandwiches. was sparked in a WhatsApp towards Cornwall, the elevation We needed to think of another group to cycle to Brighton...the reached up to 7,000ft a day. Not way to employ young people from long way round. An adventure a single person on the bike ride Roehampton, and to fund our by bicycle along the southwest had experienced such conditions. partnership feeding programmes coast of England through Devon Most nights we would get 5-6 11 hours’ sleep and start again alternative ways to travel. Protected the next morning, making sure Would you like cycle paths are being increased, we had eaten enough food to bicycle storage cycle training and “bike buddies” counter the 4,500 calories we are being advertised to help with would burn that day. At times it near you? cycle confidence on the roads, felt monotonous, but often we by Cllr CLAIRE GILBERT and many workplaces are offering would witness the beauty of the support with buying a bike. It is UK’s southern coastline and feel hoped that these things will lead to Bike hangars like these offer a compelled to jump in the cold more people feeling safe to go out fantastic secure solution for cycle waters. Once we reached our on a bike for fun, for shopping, and parking, and are a great way to final destination just past the pier for travel to work. There are cycle protect bikes from the weather on Madeira Drive, we all felt a options for lots of people, including and from vandalism or theft. I was sense of achievement that would recumbent bikes and other options so pleased to see that my and not have been possible without for people with mobility issues. residents’ requests for bike hangars the bond we had built with each There are also various types of in Roehampton have led to a new other throughout the challenge. cycle storage, including the metal bike hangar being installed by and wooden versions shown above! We are happy to announce Overton House on the Alton Estate! that we have collectively raised If you’d like a cycle storage unit enough money to purchase the There are so many bikes around near you please get in touch with second Feel Good mobile coffee the area, often on balconies and me, either via email - cllr.c.gilbert@ shop. Thanks to the generous landings and even kept inside wandsworth.gov.uk - or phone - donations we received from homes, taking up valuable living 07841 098182. so many people, we can now space. This is usually because there employ more young people from isn’t somewhere safe outside to use For any comments from residents Roehampton and surrounding for storage. Many residents have about the Council’s Low Traffic areas, and provide them with told me that they would cycle much Neighbourhood in the Dover House safe and continuous employment more often if it were easier to keep Road area, or any other general in these uncertain times. their bike somewhere accessible road or transport matters, please and safe. Bike theft happens a lot, get in touch with the Member of and it is also really common to see Parliament Fleur Anderson: email Regenerate Cycle, photo by Nahwand Jaff bikes locked up with bits missing, fleur.anderson.mp@parliament. which isn’t very attractive. uk or phone 020 7291 3348. 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