New council, old crisis: Wandsworth’s housing stock is shrinking from both ends
Right to Buy sales are accelerating. The replacement programme has been partly cancelled.
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‘I just want help’: the man moved on from Putney High Street’s empty bank
A rough sleeper who had been in the doorway more than a month moved on by the building's owners.
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.
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.
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.
No-fault evictions end on 1 May. Here’s what the new law means if you rent or let property in Putney.
The biggest change to private renting in 35 years kicks in next month - your rights, what landlords must do, and what isn't changing yet.
Legal warning lands two days before Roehampton planning vote
Council's own figures show youth space will shrink, not grow, under the scheme.
Wandsworth’s housing chief delivered nothing then told Cabinet it was a win
The planning inspector told Wandsworth Council its flagship affordable housing policy was not legally sound and could not…
Judge orders Wandsworth to give tenant his keys – right now, in an Uber
Court hears man has been climbing over his balcony for six weeks because he can't get through his own front door.
Council left domestic abuse survivor in tiny room with newborn, ignored four months of warnings
Same failure ruled unlawful in 2021 — and training was ordered then.