The magazine of Wandsworth Council Issue 170 December 2014 Wandsworth Employment Christmas event one-way proposals focus round up See page 5 See page 12 See page 20 Delivered to 140,000 homes - Balham Battersea Earlsfield Furzedown Putney Roehampton Southfields Tooting Wandsworth merton.gov.uk/superkids 2 BrightSide wandsworth.gov.uk/brightside www.wandsworth.gov.uk Inside Battersea gets the Tube December 2014 news Join our new residents’ panel 4 Civic Award winners 4 Wandsworth one-way could be scrapped 5 Litter crackdown 6-7 Have your say on airport expansion 10 Wandsworth jobs package 12-13 Crossrail 2 16 Protection for pubs 17 Keep warm this winter 18 Shop local this Christmas 20 Inside Wandsworth Prison Museum 22-23 Remembering heroes 30 regulars What’s On 27 Useful numbers 31 Cover: London Underground comes to Battersea To obtain a copy of Brightside in large print or audio version please telephone (020) 8871 7266 ”The Tube is coming to Battersea! After years of lobbying and hard work by the council the Government has now confirmed or email brightside this incredibly important project has been given the green light. @wandsworth.gov.uk The tunnelling begins next year and the first underground trains YOUR BRIGHTSIDE Your Brightside is distributed by London Letterbox will roll beneath the streets of SW8 in 2020. Marketing. We expect all copies of Brightside to be delivered to every home in the borough and pushed fully The campaign for this privately funded extension of the Northern Line began many years through the letterbox. This issue of Brightside is being ago right here on the pages of Brightside Magazine. The owners of Battersea Power delivered from November 26 to November 30. Station came to us with the ambitious proposal for an underground link which could Your next Brightside will be delivered in March. If you unlock this derelict site’s potential and support regeneration across many other empty don’t receive your copy call us on (020) 8871 7520. or underused sites in the Nine Elms neighbourhood. The council took the lead developing Brightside is the civic magazine of Wandsworth Council. the business case and has been championing the project ever since. It is produced by the council’s corporate communications unit. It is the only publication delivered Now the vision will become a reality and the benefits will be felt across this borough for to every household in the borough. generations to come. Already we have secured more than 2,000 affordable homes in We would like to thank all our advertisers for their Nine Elms and enough new employment space to provide 25,000 new jobs. We are now support. Brightside will consider display advertisements welcoming our first new residents to the area and a vast local jobs market has been from non-council bodies (excluding recruitment) and reserves the right to decline advertisements. created as the building work gathers pace. The council neither accepts responsibility for the The Tube link will also mean Battersea residents will be able to reach places like the content of nor endorses any non-council West End in less than 15 minutes while relieving the pressure on our congested roads, advertisements. rail and bus services. • Editorial (020) 8871 8902 • Advertising (020) 8871 7266 This is an incredibly powerful example of what can be achieved when a local council takes the lead on infrastructure planning. And the journey will not stop here. We have set If you have a comment about the magazine our sights on a second stage extension taking the Northern Line all the way to Clapham please telephone: (020) 8871 8902/6173 or email: [email protected]. Junction where it could interchange with the proposed Crossrail 2 service. Brightside is printed on environmentally This is an ambitious council and we will continue to make the case for the transport friendly paper, please recycle. investment our growing borough needs.” Ravi Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council Join Wandsworth Matters The new Wandsworth Matters residents’ panel makes it Local heroes easier than ever to have your say. Wandsworth Matters is a new way to give your opinion on issues in the area honoured where you live, have your say on council services and get your ideas heard by Community leaders and local heroes local decision makers. have been recognised at the annual Anyone who signs up will be invited to complete surveys, take part in online Wandsworth Civic Awards ceremony. group discussions, complete quick snap surveys and post to bulletin boards. All The awards are handed out by the views will be taken into account by senior councillors and officers when making council to people nominated by the Wandsworth community. The winners desisions. were: Leader of the council, Ravi Govindia, said: “We have launched Wandsworth Becky Newman, who has raised Matters to widen the opportunities for our residents to tell us what they think of thousands of pounds for the Headway the services we provide, and what they would like to see in the future. We want Charity. you to help us shape Wandsworth so that together we can make it even better.” Jon Stanton for tireless work for the To find out more and sign up visit www.wandsworth.gov.uk/consult Back Up Charity helping people with spinal injuries. Kate Amis for her outstanding work as How else can I communicate with the council? a school governor. Visit www.wandsworth.gov.uk/ consult Councillors hold weekly surgeries in local Liz Shaw for helping to organise the to find current consultations on a range libraries. Find out who your councillors are Battersea Rotary Club Christmas lunch of issues. at www.wandsworth. for elderly people. gov.uk/councillors. Regular Let’s Talk meetings are held in Lynn Evans for her work for the borough wards, where you can raise local You can leave comments on Missing People charity. issues with councillors and senior officers. our press releases – Mary Wright who set up and runs the The next one is 9th December - visit www.wandsworth. Tooting Gymnastics Club. Thamesfield ward gov.uk/news. Read more about the winners at Visit www.wandsworth. We are on twitter – @wandbc www.wandsworth.gov.uk/ gov.uk/ letstalk. and Facebook – wandsworth.council. civicawards. Latest Battersea regeneration plans unveiled This is how part of the Winstanley and York Road estates could look after a major council-led regeneration project is complete. The updated designs were presented to the local community recently and work continues on fine tuning the details. If the project is given final approval from the council the construction work could start in 2016. Under the proposal every council home knocked down would be replaced with a new one. Find out more at www.wandsworth.gov.uk/ winstanleyyorkroad. 4 BrightSide wandsworth.gov.uk/brightside in brief Wandsworth One-Way could be scrapped Wandsworth Town Centre could become largely pedestrianised under plans being explored by Business Awards winner Edward James London Aveda Salons and Spa Transport for London. was crowned overall winner of the Wandsworth Business Awards, run by the WA Wandsworth Chamber of Commerce and BR ND D I A DG O sponsored by Wandsworth Council and The Tax River Thames R S E WO K R Guys. R O J R Y E O AD T W H S Other winners include Artisan coffee shop in R O W AY Putney, My Nametags, Greenzone cleaning, W S ER GL Elizabeth Marsh Floral Design, Conference UG SM AY Roehampton, Wandsworth Oasis, Bruce’s R W T i N v O R e D I N r N Doggy Day Care, Minar Jewellers and new IT W A W Y a S n R children’s products company Bouncy Jam. d O l e Wandsworth A D D Town A Read more at O ILL R H N’S K OH www.wandsworthbusinessawards.com. 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E Search for sporting Proposed direction of A scheme is being drawn up to remove heroes future traffic flow around the gyratory system, improve the area Wandsworth town centre Nominations are now open for the 2014 Active for cyclists, bus users and pedestrians and remove through traffic. Wandsworth Awards. The annual awards recognise the borough’s sportsmen and The A3 and South Circular would be Two-way street women, coaches and clubs that have excelled re-routed along Armoury Way and One-way street or have shown an ongoing dedication to sport Swandon Way under the ambitious Buses & cycles only over a number of years.