Wandsworth’s housing crisis has the same cause. Both parties helped create it.
Why planning rules produce the wrong homes - and why neither Labour nor the Conservatives said so at the hustings.
Month: April 2026
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Southfields hustings: the applause line that wasn’t true, and the truth nobody else said
One candidate got the loudest cheer of the night. Another got the facts right.
Southfields woman named Female Padel Player of the Year at awards held at the venue where she first played
Catherine Rose, British No.2, turned professional less than three years after picking up a racket for the first time.
Wandsworth is spending £28 million of your council tax on temporary housing. The queue is getting longer.
Wandsworth council taxpayers are spending £28.6 million this year housing homeless families in temporary accommodation while they wait…
After a fourth Commons debate on Hammersmith Bridge, no new funding; possibly a breakthrough
Seven-year funding principle walked away from, and Wandsworth is in the frame.
Wandsworth keeps promising to fix its housing failures. The same promise, six times.
Three families. Three ombudsman rulings. Three identical apologies. Putney.news documents the pattern.
Done in seconds: the Wimbledon Park amendment is now on the statute book
162-55 in the Lords, months of campaigning - then the Commons agreed it on the nod and moved on.
Police seize cannabis and £2,200 in Innes Gardens arrest
Six weeks earlier, an officer told a West Putney ward panel that rivals would move in on exactly this patch.
Your chance to move things on Hammersmith Bridge: 30 seconds, today
Parliament debates the bridge for the fourth time in five years. Fleur Anderson MP asked what to raise. Pick your asks and send.
Half of women over 50 will break a bone because of this condition. A Putney team is raising money to change that.
Walfinch's marathon fundraiser has already raised £10,548 - 105% of target - before a single mile is run.