Read More 4 minute read Housing Politics 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. bySenior reporterJune 11, 2026
Read More 2 minute read Community Housing Thamesfield ‘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. bySenior reporterMay 21, 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 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
Read More 4 minute read Housing 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. bySenior reporterApril 1, 2026
Read More 5 minute read Housing Planning Roehampton Legal warning lands two days before Roehampton planning vote Council's own figures show youth space will shrink, not grow, under the scheme. byPutney.news reporterMarch 11, 2026
Read More 5 minute read Housing Politics 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… byKieren McCarthyFebruary 25, 2026
Read More 3 minute read Crime Housing 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. byKieren McCarthyFebruary 21, 2026
Read More 5 minute read Health Housing 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. bySenior reporterFebruary 21, 2026