Residents saw a notice for daily music & alcohol at Wimbledon Park til 11pm and thought “oh god it’s a year-round festival.” turns out it was just bureaucratic chaos – one bonfire night, but the form made it look like Glastonbury-on-Thames putney.news/2025/10/16/t...
dog owners: 731 warnings, 61 fines street drinkers: 0 warnings, 0 fines cost to renew both policies: £3,500 wandsworth council’s reasoning: putney.news/2025/10/16/w...
Wandsworth Prison made progress on violence but watchdog report reveals persistent failures: staff shortages, 22-hour lockups, freezing cells. “Unless fundamental changes are made, it will remain inhumane” putney.news/2025/10/16/w...
How do you confuse a student’s college with their old school? Ask Wandsworth Council, who did it three times. The family spent £400/month on petrol while officials repeatedly got the distance wrong. Fourth council failure in 4 months. putney.news/2025/10/15/n...
The impossible math: Wandsworth schools spend 80% on staff salaries, so when they lose 30 pupils (£136k), they can only cut 1 teacher (£45k). Year 7 intake forecast to drop another 25% by 2033. How do schools survive this? putney.news/2025/10/15/w...
Brexit’s aftershock arrives: Wandsworth secondary schools losing pupils faster than primaries for first time. Free School Meals eligibility doubled since 2018. Middle-class families leaving, while lower-income families stay. putney.news/2025/10/15/w...
Here’s the situation: Wandsworth faces a £90m budget hole, is spending £1.9m on consultants to find £50m in savings, and plans to drain reserves while it waits. Rising social care costs, homelessness, and govt funding cuts are piling pressure on. putney.news/2025/10/14/c...
They lived two doors apart for years but weren’t friends—until free yoga classes brought them together. Live Karma Yoga runs 30 weekly classes in SW London prisons, hostels & community spaces. Despite success, funding is disappearing. putney.news/2025/10/14/p...
Three Michelin-trained chefs, three restaurants, one stretch of road in Putney—all celebrating Diwali with special menus this week. From thalis to contemporary tasting menus, Lower Richmond Road has options for every Festival of Lights feast putney.news/2025/10/14/p...
Wandsworth Council is spending £1.9m on external consultants to help find £50m in savings. The council admits it doesn’t have the “skills and capacity” in-house. With a potential £90m budget gap by 2028/29 and reserves running down, what could go wrong? putney.news/2025/10/14/c...
Wandsworth Prison officers say inmates attending yoga classes are becoming kinder and better able to cope. The free program has run for 10+ years—but funding ends soon. How breathing exercises are making a difference behind bars: putney.news/2025/10/14/p...
MasterChef pro & Michelin-star chef Parminder Singh is doing Diwali his way at Cho Asia in Putney—wasabi peas on dahi puri, truffle-stuffed kebabs, Iranian pine nuts on rice pudding. Contemporary festival food at £30pp putney.news/2025/10/14/p...
Wandsworth crime: up 56% in 6 months. Met’s community engagement platform: broken on mobile. Community meeting: “sold out” (but is it really?). This is not how you build trust with residents. putney.news/2025/10/13/m...
“Every morning frustrated drivers are racing up that road as fast as they can. That’s a school road. At some point somebody is going to be killed.” Residents packed a church to demand action on Putney’s traffic—and left ready to use the ballot box. putney.news/2025/10/13/w...
Bus journeys that took 9 minutes now take 40+. Journey times up 20+ minutes. Traffic gridlock. Hammersmith Bridge: closed since 2019, still no funding. But there’s £811m on the wish list for a tunnel to replace working infrastructure. putney.news/2025/10/13/h...
“Long-term is two years” - the sarcastic interjection that sums up questions about Wandsworth Council’s financial strategy. With £50m in savings needed over 3 years, residents are asking if this attempt will be different from the last one putney.news/2025/10/13/d...
The Met asks Wandsworth residents about their crime concerns—then their engagement platform literally won’t let them reply. Crime’s up 56% in 6 months, and the meeting to discuss it shows as “sold out.” putney.news/2025/10/13/m...
After 10 months, everyone agrees Putney’s junction doesn’t work. So why can’t anyone fix it? The answer reveals a system so fragmented that even when everyone wants change, nobody can deliver it alone. Local elections are 7 months away. putney.news/2025/10/13/w...
Wandsworth Council is spending £1.9m on a new transformation programme just 2 years after launching what they called their most significant change programme ever. “Either it failed or it was never what you claimed” - opposition councillor at heated meeting putney.news/2025/10/13/d...
Wild: TfL skipped Putney’s traffic crisis meeting but showed up to another one a mile away in Barnes. Meanwhile residents describe elderly people in tears, dangerous speeding on residential streets, and 6+ years of Hammersmith Bridge closure chaos. putney.news/2025/10/12/t...
“we have elderly people in tears because they can’t get a bus” - moment a Putney meeting went from angry to something else entirely what the council leader did when a journalist asked questions after… putney.news/2025/10/12/i...
putney’s absurdly crowded coffee scene (costa, nero, starbucks, black sheep…) is getting blank street - the gen z focused chain where half the sales are instagram-worthy matcha drinks. specialty coffee under £3.90. former wasabi site. no opening date yet. putney.news/2025/10/12/v...
A Putney resident asked for the top 3 actions to fix 10 months of traffic chaos. The MP’s response? “It’s not up to me…it’s Transport for London that need to get on and do that.” The full exchanges from Saturday’s meeting: putney.news/2025/10/12/w...
Tense Putney meeting: residents say 10 months of traffic talks = zero action. Elderly neighbors in tears over buses, drivers racing down school roads. Council leader apologises but locals skeptical. Elections in May loom large. putney.news/2025/10/12/t...
council leader explains “what we might call TfL” to room full of people who’ve been following transport issues for years “read the room,” someone muttered then it got worse. much worse. putney.news/2025/10/12/i...
