David Curran

Council builds two ingenious five-storey buildings at Tyneham Close

30 March 2025

Proposals

9 mins read

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Wandsworth Council’s innovative development will add 14 new flats to the existing estate near Lavender Hill, while also upgrading communal gardens and addressing longstanding issues. The project, part of the…

With rent increasing and business struggling, a cluster of changes for some of Lavender Hill’s traders

by David Curran

4 February 2025

Business

9 mins read

With soaring cost of renting a premises in Clapham Junction, we look at at a bundle of changes affecting traders – including several of the most long-established local businesses. Kitchen…

Building work completes on Clapham Common’s new cafe

by David Curran

22 January 2025

Parks

4 mins read

Clapham Common’s new café marks a significant transformation of a derelict public toilet building, which had long been a neglected eyesore. Following extensive renovations, the site now offers a vibrant…

A happy ending for Clapham Common Northside’s oldest house?

by David Curran

9 September 2024

Housing

6 mins read

It’s been quite the journey for 64 Clapham Common Northside, one of the oldest houses still standing, that seems to go back to some point in the 1780s, when it…

In pictures: Harley’s Food Hall brings a smarter grocers to Lavender Hill

by David Curran

6 September 2024

Business

4 mins read

Lavender Hill has a smart and unusual new supermarket. Back in April we reported that the large premises at 207-217 Lavender Hill (next to the junction with Latchmere Road &…

Fat Phill’s burgers are coming to Clapham Junction

by David Curran

31 July 2024

Business

2 mins read

The very last ’empty shop’ in Clapham Junction following the Covid pandemic is coming back in to use. Moss Bros used to have a store next to the way in to…

Like a cat: Clapham Common’s most historic house escapes demolition yet again!

by David Curran

3 July 2024

Housing

10 mins read

Planning permission to knock down a rather unique historic house on Clapham Common and redevelop with a taller ‘pastiche’ replacement has been refused by the Council. A few months ago…

Meet Marsha de Cordova, the Labour Party candidate

by Cyril Richert

David Curran

29 June 2024

Elections

8 mins read

Marsha de Cordova is the Labour Party candidate in the Battersea constituency for the UK Parliamentary election on Thursday 4 July 2024. To provide more information about the main candidates,…

Meet Georgina Burford-Connole, the Rejoin EU Party candidate

by Cyril Richert

David Curran

27 June 2024

Elections

5 mins read

Georgina Burford-Connole is the Rejoin EU Party candidate in the Battersea constituency for the UK Parliamentary election on Thursday 4 July 2024. To provide more information about the main candidates,…

What does the future hold for Battersea’s industrial spaces?

by David Curran

26 June 2024

Business

13 mins read

It’s hiding in plain sight – a giant area of Battersea that many of its immediate neighbours have never been to. In and among the railway arches between Queenstown Road…

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David Curran

Council builds two ingenious five-storey buildings at Tyneham Close

With rent increasing and business struggling, a cluster of changes for some of Lavender Hill’s traders

Building work completes on Clapham Common’s new cafe

A happy ending for Clapham Common Northside’s oldest house?

In pictures: Harley’s Food Hall brings a smarter grocers to Lavender Hill

Fat Phill’s burgers are coming to Clapham Junction

Like a cat: Clapham Common’s most historic house escapes demolition yet again!

Meet Marsha de Cordova, the Labour Party candidate

Meet Georgina Burford-Connole, the Rejoin EU Party candidate

What does the future hold for Battersea’s industrial spaces?

Wandsworth gyratory removal abandoned after decades of delays and broken promises

In pictures: Lavender Hill’s brand new pottery studio

High Court rejects challenge to Wimbledon expansion, but legal battle continues with Trust and Appeal cases

After landmarks forced out by soaring rents, new ventures only now start to emerge

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