Currently I'm helping the campaign create a Community Interest Company, which will provide protection for the site in the event that the owners try to sell the land to a third party.
The past couple of months have been important ones for St George’s, as it progressed its Foundation Hospital status and awaited the latest Care Quality Commission review of its clinical standards.
To follow are minutes of the meeting held with Totterdown Estate residents on 29th April 14. More background information on the project can be found here.
Employment is growing, unemployment is down and wages are rising. The jobs market was ticking over even while the economy was flat, so now that we are seeing sustained growth in the UK, job creation has really taken off.
The Save the Wheatsheaf campaign tonight held its second public meeting on the evening of 31st March to update local residents on the progress of the campaign and the latest developments with the pub.
You don’t have to look very far in Tooting to see examples of new housing projects that are underway. And with a growing population and rising property prices, it’s essential that we do build a substantial number of new homes in London.
Dan Watkins, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Tooting, today welcomed the measures unveiled by Chancellor of the Exchequer in this year’s budget.
Dan Watkins, Chair of the Tooting Wheatsheaf Supporters, was contacted by Anthony Thomas last week with proposed plans that he had obtained from Enterprise Inns, the owner of the Wheatsheaf. He confirmed that Antic has not yet secured a long-term lease or purchase of the pub, meaning that notice could be served by Enterprise at any time.
Among those local people recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for 2014 was Michelle Harris, the head of the Family Recovery Project at Wandsworth Council. I wrote to Michelle to congratulate her on being awarded an MBE and for the excellent results her team are achieving. Following that, I was pleased to have the chance to visit the team last week and see first-hand the excellent work they are doing for the community.
Wandsworth has recently announced another freeze in its share of the Council Tax, meaning that it barely charges any more than it did four years ago. Given that inflation was quite high until recently, this equates to about a 10% real-terms drop in the cost of council services for Tooting residents.
