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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.

Wandle football pitch

Footballers question ‘spurious’ closure of 5-a-side pitch to make way for padel tennis

bySenior reporter

October 2, 2026

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October 03, 2026

Driver convicted of 13 forgery charges over parking fine appeals

Stack of printed forms with red pen alterations on a desk beside a laptop, with a parked car and recovery van visible through the window.

He altered a downloaded RAC report for each notice and was banned from driving for eight months

Tribunal cancels £160 Putney Embankment fine over contradictory signs

Putney Embankment turning

Wandsworth has issued 1,081 penalty notices at the junction since the zone opened in 2024

Council tax, then a mansion tax. Now council tenants face a second rent rise

The Alton Estate from above

An extra £1 a week from April 2027, then £2 a week more every year

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Watercolour illustration of an empty community clubroom on a London council estate, with rows of plastic chairs facing a trestle table stacked with meeting papers and post-war housing visible through the windows at sunset.

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Residents’ associations raise estates’ concerns with the council. New plans would make tenants apply instead

Police walking down the street

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Wandsworth is paying for 25 police officers. Its plans give two answers on who’s the boss

Block of flats

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Council tenant forced to pay back £65,000 in illegal rent

Prince of Wales in bloom

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Blooming marvellous: Prince of Wales pub wins annual flower award

FINANCE

October 03, 2026

Row of Victorian houses

Home worth £1.5m? The mansion tax may be heading your way

Cllr Grimston and Fleur Anderson MP

Kingmaker councillor accuses Putney MP of misleading residents on tax

Wandsworth Town Hall

Everything you need to know about the massive council tax rise coming next year

Wandsworth Town Hall

Wandsworth built 40 years of politics on the lowest council tax in England. This week the bill came due

byKieren McCarthy

September 20, 2026

HOUSING

A hand in a coat sleeve pressed against a radiator, testing it for warmth

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She had no heating. It was December. The council took four months to visit

A tower block on the Alton Estate in Roehampton

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Alton estate garages torn down for flats, no replacements

Wandsworth Town Hall

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Wandsworth scraps 253 council homes as new cabinet meets tonight

Alton A block abandoned

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Back to the drawing board – yet again – for the Alton Estate

POLITICS

Facade of Putney Library showing a curved glass entrance, large 'PUTNEY LIBRARY' sign, and a textured stone wall with big carved 'LIBRARY' letters.

Libraries are on the council’s cost-cutting list this week

Staff recommended retendering a contract that was only signed last year in a bid to save money.

byPutney.news reporter

September 22, 2026

Wandsworth Town Hall

Council tax will double in April, up by an average of £1,000

For the third time in a row, Wandsworth’s full council meeting has no papers

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

Nobody at Wandsworth will defend its pension fund’s own rules

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Composite image showing three local food and drink venues alongside a plated meal, with a chalkboard displaying a two-out-of-five-star rating.

Health

Rare duck, a 12C fridge and ants: 12 Putney food businesses rated 2 or lower

byKieren McCarthy

Putney Bridge Junction

Council wants £450,000 to move the crossing it built in 2024

Bus stop opposite TK Maxx on Putney High Street

TK Maxx bus stop reopens with Putney’s traffic hopes on board

Street cleaning on Putney High Street

Environment

Putney’s high streets will get more jet-washing – but you lose free bulky waste collection

byPutney.news reporter

Victorian terraced houses on a quiet southwest London street, with a loft dormer extension and scaffolding covering one property beneath an overcast sky.

Any say on your neighbour’s proposed extension is quietly being axed next month

Close-up of a clear vial, syringe and pale pink nail polish on a white beauty-salon counter, with a woman reclining in a treatment chair softly out of focus in the background

Thinking about Botox or lip filler? Here’s what nobody is checking

The Wandsworth roundabout advertising structure better known as The Pretzel

Pretzel reprieve: Wandsworth landmark to remain after alternative rejected

bySenior reporter

Wandsworth Park

Last day to object to five years of adverts in Wandsworth Park

Traffic on Putney High Street

Putney businesses see the High Street’s five-year plan tomorrow

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Watercolour illustration of an empty community clubroom on a London council estate, with rows of plastic chairs facing a trestle table stacked with meeting papers and post-war housing visible through the windows at sunset.

Residents’ associations raise estates’ concerns with the council. New plans would make tenants apply instead

Wandsworth wants borough-wide groups organised by topic, with seats for those who apply and…

byPutney.news reporter

September 29, 2026

A tower block on the Alton Estate in Roehampton

Alton estate garages torn down for flats, no replacements

Denmead House on the Alton Estate. Subject to constant water and sewage problems.

Wandsworth broke the law twice over Denmead House repair records

Alton A block abandoned

Back to the drawing board – yet again – for the Alton Estate