Read More 4 minute read Housing Planning Roehampton Back to the drawing board – yet again – for the Alton Estate Planned demolition will move ahead but the rest of the plans are up for debate all over again. bySenior reporterJuly 19, 2026
Read More 4 minute read Community Housing Politics Roehampton The council told an 82-year-old she was going to be evicted. Nine months later, she finds out it never even opened a case A Wandsworth tenant threatened with eviction last year, at the age of 82, has been told by the… byKieren McCarthyJuly 17, 2026
Read More 4 minute read Housing Roehampton Watchdog steps in as Wandsworth won’t explain Roehampton sewage repairs It disclosed how often flats flooded, but not what it did about it byKieren McCarthyJune 22, 2026
Read More 4 minute read Housing Planning West Putney No decision. No consultation. No majority. Conservatives declare Ashburton cancelled anyway. No cabinet decision, no scrutiny, and Putney's political conscience is asking why. byKieren McCarthyJune 19, 2026
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