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Latest Wandsworth Council news from Putney and surrounding areas, covering council meetings, planning decisions, local services, housing developments and community initiatives alongside major local government updates.

Aled Richards-Jones, leader of Wandsworth Council

Wandsworth’s new Conservative leader outlines first steps – and the deal that made them possible

byKieren McCarthy

May 20, 2026

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May 20, 2026

Planning

‘Not exemplary, remarkable or distinctive – just tall’: Glassmill tower appeal dismissed

Proposed Glassmill Tower

Inspector rejects Rockwell's 29-storey Battersea Bridge scheme, voiding £1.08m community agreement.

Wandsworth offered £29m bailout for SEND crisis but still faces massive costs

Wandsworth Town Hall

Even if bailout arrives, the debt will keep growing. Schools Forum meets later today.

What’s actually happening to Wandsworth Bridge this summer – and why the official communications got so confused

Wandsworth Bridge northbound

Lane works start 26 May for five months. The council was slow to announce them.

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AI illustration of what a fresh design and raised walkway would look like in Leaders' Gardens

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The green space we have, and what it takes to keep it

Pavment outside Franco Manca on Putney High Street

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A rare piece of good news on Putney High Street: Franco Manca applies to extend its outdoor seating

NO2 canisters dumped

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Residents report rising tide of drug canisters, say nothing is being done

Oasis Academy Putney

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Oasis Academy Putney now on course to close

FINANCE

May 20, 2026

£1m laptop contract comes in £67,325 below the scrutiny threshold

Wandsworth Council

Council’s £3.7m laptop contract sits untouched for over a year

Empty committee room in a British civic building, with stacked reports and performance charts laid across a long table.

Wandsworth pension fund loses tens of millions as committee keeps noting the problem

Editorial illustration of an overflowing in-tray piled with pension paperwork beside an almost empty out-tray, with a peeling calendar suggesting delay.

Finance

Wandsworth pension members waited up to 18 months for transfers, FOI reveals

byPutney.news reporter

March 26, 2026

HOUSING

A tower block on the Alton Estate in Roehampton

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Wandsworth’s housing crisis has the same cause. Both parties helped create it.

Empty British council housing office waiting area with institutional chairs, queue-ticket dispenser, closed service hatch and a paper file left on a seat, in muted grey-blue watercolor style. AI-generated image

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Wandsworth keeps promising to fix its housing failures. The same promise, six times.

Fire at Fox House in 2025

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60 residents lost their homes in the Fox House fire. Wandsworth Council won’t release the safety records

Victorian terrace street in southwest London with a formal envelope being posted through a front-door letterbox.

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No-fault evictions end on 1 May. Here’s what the new law means if you rent or let property in Putney.

POLITICS

The new Wandsworth Council leadership. Peter Graham, Aled Richards-Jones, Guy Humphries (l-to-r).

Politics

Aled Richards-Jones confirmed as Wandsworth’s new council leader

Peter Graham confirmed as Deputy Leader, with full cabinet to follow on 27 May.

byKieren McCarthy

May 13, 2026

Wandsworth pays its councillors under £10 an hour. Here’s what that costs us

Malcolm Grimston at Wandsworth Town Hall

The man Wandsworth can’t ignore any more

Overhead editorial illustration of a monochrome UK local election ballot paper on a grey polling booth shelf, with five party-style icons across the top, two boxes marked with black Xs, and a hand holding a pen hovering over an empty box.

What Wandsworth’s council would look like if votes actually decided it

ALL OTHER COUNCIL NEWS

Transport

Putney’s buses are so slow the BBC came to film them

byPutney.news reporter

Crisis on Putney High Street

Mayor’s last big outing: opening Crisis knitting day this Sunday

Putney Bridge archway

Putney Bridge is in serious trouble. The council knows. Now you do too.

Colorful blue and yellow overhead bridge reading 'EAST PUTNEY' over a busy street with pedestrians and cars underneath.

Now the election’s over, we need to talk about East Putney’s bridges

byPutney.news reporter

Pedestrians walking on a city sidewalk beside parked cars, brick office buildings, and a red bus on the street edge.

Putney is gridlocked – on the road and at the count

Malcolm Grimston, Kingmaker

Grimston kingmaker as Wandsworth delivers hung council

West Hill result

Squeezed from both sides: how Labour lost Wandsworth

byKieren McCarthy

Vote today: here’s everything you need, and what might happen

Putney Bridge junction ground to a halt. Pic: Nat.

For many Putney voters, there’s one issue on their mind: the dreaded junction

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Aled Richards-Jones, leader of Wandsworth Council

Wandsworth’s new Conservative leader outlines first steps – and the deal that made them possible

£137m gap that reserves cannot cover drives immediate hiring freeze and billion-pound…

byKieren McCarthy

May 20, 2026

Focus Hall reopened

The Met moves Roehampton’s police meeting tonight to online only

Ballot box

Vote today: here’s everything you need, and what might happen

Polling booths

Three forecasts, one answer: no party wins Wandsworth on Thursday