Read More 7 minute read Planning ‘Not exemplary, remarkable or distinctive – just tall’: Glassmill tower appeal dismissed Inspector rejects Rockwell's 29-storey Battersea Bridge scheme, voiding £1.08m community agreement. byKieren McCarthyMay 19, 2026
Read More 8 minute read Environment Planning Wimbledon AELTC said Wimbledon Park would gain 23% more nature from development. An expert says it’s really 36% less A professional environmental scientist submitted detailed evidence before the approval. Here's what it found. bySenior reporterMay 12, 2026
Read More 7 minute read Environment Long read Planning The man who designed Wimbledon has seen the plans. He is not impressed. Here is what he would do instead. The architect who designed Wimbledon in the 1990s on what the approved expansion gets wrong, and how to fix it. byKieren McCarthyApril 26, 2026
Read More 8 minute read Community Long read Planning Politics Wimbledon Two court defeats and a parliamentary ambush. Wimbledon Park’s residents won’t give up. The five-year fight to stop the All England Club building on protected land — and what happens next. byKieren McCarthyApril 25, 2026
Read More 6 minute read Homes and Property Housing Planning Politics 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. byKieren McCarthyApril 24, 2026
Read More 7 minute read Housing Politics 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. bySenior reporterApril 22, 2026
Read More 5 minute read Planning Politics Southfields Wimbledon 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. bySenior reporterApril 22, 2026
Read More 2 minute read Planning Thamesfield Charlwood Road side extension refused after 47 objections The council's decision says the principle of the proposal was wrong — not just the details. byKieren McCarthyApril 20, 2026
Read More 4 minute read Planning Politics Wandsworth Lords pass Wimbledon Park amendment 162-55 as Liberal Democrats vote alone against Wimbledon Park bill heads to Commons on 21 April after 162-55 vote. bySenior reporterApril 14, 2026
Read More 6 minute read Housing Politics 60 residents lost their homes in the Fox House fire. Wandsworth Council won’t release the safety records Council took 55 working days to refuse request for inspection reports, a year after being warned about serious failings. byKieren McCarthyApril 12, 2026