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Clapham Junction Insider (CJI) is a community news media for Clapham Junction, Battersea, Wandsworth and around.
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🏘️ A new dark comedy at OmnibusTheatre #Clapham — supported by @acornunion.bsky.social — uses farce to explore rising rents and housing insecurity.
#Lambeth rents are up nearly 10% in a year; 28,000 households wait for affordable homes.
#HousingCrisis #RentersRights
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Housing crisis takes centre stage in new play at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre
A dark comedy supported by renters’ union ACORN runs at Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre this week, using farce and real-life mishaps to probe the pressures facing tenants amid a worsening housing crisis. A...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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🖼️ 🚧The first artwork panels are now up beneath #FalconRoad bridge — a visible shift in the long-criticised #ClaphamJunction underpass. Designs feature local landmarks, lavender, daffodils and bees, with lighting + pigeon-proofing shaped by residents.
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#UrbanDesign
Falcon Bridge transformation takes shape as first artwork panels go up
The first of a series of bespoke artwork panels were installed beneath Falcon Road railway bridge last week, marking a significant milestone in an ambitious scheme to transform one of south London's m...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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🏗️ Wandsworth’s “ambitious” housing plan cuts targets — prompting claims it’s more PR than strategy.
It comes as critics warn the 50% affordable goal may deter developers, while the rest of London faces pressure to move in the opposite direction.
Full analysis: www.cjag.org/2025/11/15/i...
Is Wandsworth aiming for a lower housing target than before?
Wandsworth Council has unveiled new plans for housing presented as 'ambitious' even though they would deliver hundreds fewer homes a year than previous targets. Council leader Simon Hogg announced a ...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🕵️‍♀️ Wandsworth Council’s #ClaphamJunction Masterplan hid a 22-member secret panel, ignored local expertise, and therefore spent 18 months reinventing ideas first proposed 15 years ago. What a missed opportunity!
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#planning #communitygroup #localexperts
Clapham Junction Masterplan: Secret Panel, Ignored Expertise and Recycled Ideas
Wandsworth Council’s latest presentation on the Clapham Junction Masterplan promised community engagement. Instead, it delivered a secret 22-member panel, ignored a decade of local expertise, and repa...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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🌳 Battersea’s most unusual landmark: a grapefruit tree on Queenstown Road 🍊
Planted in the 1980s by Grenadian resident Marline Calliste Anderson, it’s now gained protected status under a Tree Preservation Order
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Queenstown Road’s most special tree gains protected status
When we think of rare and protected landmark trees, we’re probably imagining some giant and ancient landmark – the giant redwoods of California, the giant plane trees in some of London’s major squares...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🛍️ A new kind of shop has opened on Lavender Hill. The Shelf lets local makers rent a shelf to sell art, homeware, jewellery & more — offering a new model for independent retail in Clapham Junction.
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The Shelf, a new approach to retail, opens on Lavender Hill
A fresh concept has arrived on Lavender Hill: The Shelf, a new “community shop” where local makers can rent a shelf to showcase their creations. Blending creativity with practicality, it offers a mode...
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October 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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🚨 Wandsworth will soon have no police front desk at all.
Lavender Hill is closing, as the Met cuts counters and officer numbers.
Campaigns are pushing back, raising concern that residents are being left with less access, less visibility, less trust.
Full story 👉 www.cjag.org/2025/09/24/l...
Lavender Hill Police Station is closing – what does it mean for local policing?
Clapham Junction is set to lose its last point of round-the-clock policing. Lavender Hill Police Station – the last 24-hour front desk in Wandsworth – is set to close, alongside stations in Kensington...
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September 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Find here the latest newsletter of the Clapham Junction Insider 📧:
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News about:
Falcon Road Bridge,
Wandsworth Gyratory,
Wimbledon Park court case,
Update on shops, New pottery, Cult pizza
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News in the Clapham Junction/Battersea/Wandsworth and around area from Clapham Junction Insider (CJI)
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September 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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🚧 Work starts on Falcon Road railway bridge: repainting, new wall panels, improved lighting & landscaping planned to improve one of #ClaphamJunction ’s least liked spaces.
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#Battersea #Wandsworth #UrbanDesign
Work starts on improving Falcon Road’s horrible bridge
The long-awaited revamp of Falcon Road railway bridge is now underway, with fresh blue paint already in place and new panels being installed along the underpass walls. The project aims to transform th...
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September 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Perfect illustration for our article ;-) www.cjag.org/2025/08/26/w...
September 7, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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🚶‍♀️ Join historian Jeanne Rathbone for a guided walk celebrating inspiring women of Battersea - from suffragist Charlotte Despard to BBC pioneer Evelyn Dove.
📅 Sun 7 Sep, 12pm
📍 Battersea Arts Centre
🎭 Part of Lavender Hill Festival
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September 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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🚦 Wandsworth gyratory removal scrapped by TfL after decades of delays & promises.
A major blow for @wandsworthlabour.bsky.social — especially as TfL is overseen by @mayoroflondon.bsky.social .
#gyratory #Wandsworth #OneWaySystem
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Wandsworth gyratory removal abandoned after decades of delays and broken promises
Decades of promises to remove Wandsworth's hostile one-way traffic system have come to nothing, with Transport for London quietly scrapping long-awaited plans, leaving millions in developer contributi...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🎨 Phresh Pottery opens on Lavender Hill - new ceramics cafe next to popular Phresh cafe. Pottery painting from £10, all ages welcome, walk-ins & bookings. 28 capacity, connects to cafe for refreshments.
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#LavenderHill #Pottery @lovebattersea.bsky.social
In pictures: Lavender Hill’s brand new pottery studio
Nearly two years ago we reported on the opening of Phresh – a new family-run juice bar, coffee shop and deli at 103e Lavender Hill. The business has proved very popular and owners Donna and Steph real...
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August 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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⚖️ The battle over Wimbledon’s £200m expansion is far from over.
👉 Save Wimbledon Park is appealing the High Court ruling.
👉 In January, another case will test whether a statutory trust still protects the land.
Full story: www.cjag.org/2025/08/22/h...
#Wimbledon #SaveWimbledonPark #AELTC
High Court rejects challenge to Wimbledon expansion, but legal battle continues with Trust and Appeal cases
The High Court may have cleared the way for Wimbledon’s £200 million expansion, but campaigners are not retreating. Save Wimbledon Park has already applied to appeal, with judges expected to decide wi...
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August 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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🎾🌳⚖️ Wimbledon expansion battle continues: Save Wimbledon Park applies for Court of Appeal permission (decision in 2-4 months) + separate January 2026 case will determine if statutory trust protects the former golf course land. Even tennis club admits project "incompatible" if trust exists. 1/2
August 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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🏠 Partridges & Panahar Indian closed due to rent hikes; Thermomix had a short stay and is already gone. New ventures now appearing on Lavender Hill. Check for more info: www.cjag.org/2025/08/04/a...
#ClaphamJunction #LavenderHill
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After landmarks forced out by soaring rents, new ventures only now start to emerge
The departure of Thermomix, the arrival of a new coffee shop, and refurbishment works at the former Panahar Indian restaurant mark a wave of change for Clapham Junction’s independent high street. Long...
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August 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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🎾🌳⚖️ Though the Wimbledon tournament is over, the legal battle isn’t: last week, campaigners took @london.gov.uk and #AELTC ’s park expansion to court. Judicial Review outcome pending.
Details: www.cjag.org/2025/07/16/w...
#Wimbledon #SaveWimbledonPark #AELTC @wimbledonpark.bsky.social
Wimbledon tennis on court and... in court!
"The line is experiencing severe delays due to an incident on the track..." echoed through station speakers - a message all too familiar to London commuters. But this time even the Mayor of London apo...
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July 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Probably a decision that resident's of @wandsworth.bsky.social would like to see more often within their borough: Plans for controversial Peckham redevelopment scheme rejected by council www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Plans for controversial Peckham redevelopment scheme rejected by council
Plans for the Aylesham Centre in Peckham were rejected for several reasons, including a lack of affordable housing
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July 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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🍕 Yard Sale Pizza taking over former Pizza Hut site at 55 Lavender Hill. Known for neighbourhood focus, in-house delivery (24min avg), and partnerships with local pubs. Mix of Neapolitan & NY-style pizzas. Opening soon
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Cult pizza place Yard Sale is coming to Lavender Hill
London pizza chain Yard Sale Pizza has taken over the former Pizza Hut site at 55 Lavender Hill, bringing their neighborhood-focused approach and in-house delivery service to the area. Pizza seems to...
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July 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Find here our latest newsletter 📧:
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News about:
- Glassmill/One Battersea Bridge
- Park Policy
- Travelodge
- Local Plan
- Kitchen Shoppe
- New unusual houses
- Queenstown station
- Dirty Blond nightclub
- Planning Forum
CJI Newsletter
News in the Clapham Junction/Battersea/Wandsworth and around area from Clapham Junction Insider (CJI)
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July 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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🏠 Wandsworth Local Plan change: 50% affordable housing mandatory for new developments, 70/30 split for social rent, £50k contribution from smaller sites. But will developers comply or build elsewhere?
Analysis of challenges facing the policy: www.cjag.org/2025/07/01/c...
#AffordableHousing
Challenges ahead of Wandsworth's Local Plan amendments
Wandsworth is updating its Local Plan to require more affordable and social rented housing, with new policies currently under review and adoption expected in 2026 Wandsworth’s most recent update on t...
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July 2, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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🏠 Wandsworth Planning Forum update: Local Plan amendments submitted (inc. 50% affordable housing target), Clapham Junction Masterplan moves to Phase 2, and debate over making forum minutes public for transparency.
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#WandsworthPlanning #ClaphamJunction
Planning Forum meeting 30th April 2024: Local Plan, CJ Masterplan and transparency
Most of the recent Planning Forum meeting at the Town Hall focused on updates to the Wandsworth Local Plan. There were also brief updates on the Clapham Junction masterplan, as well as a debate about ...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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🏪 Kitchen Shoppe on Lavender Hill reopens as Clapham Discount Store after refit. Same household goods business that served the area for 20 years. New owners have made the familiar Clapham/Battersea naming confusion.😱 @lovebattersea.bsky.social
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New name, same game: Clapham Discount Store replaces Kitchen Shoppe
The Kitchen Shoppe premises have reopened as the Clapham Discount Store after a complete refit, continuing to serve the same household goods needs that kept it trading for 20 years. The new owners hav...
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June 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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🏗️ The scaffolding at #ClaphamJunction 's Travelodge has become permanent - a reminder of poor planning decisions.
The building used 65% cheaper cladding than originally proposed, deteriorating after less than 15 y. Warning was made in 2012 but concerns were dismissed.
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Year-long scaffolding stalemate at Clapham Junction's Travelodge
Scaffolding has become a permanent feature around the Travelodge hotel on Falcon Road, a visible reminder of ongoing construction issues. This pattern reveals a critical weakness in the system: mater...
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June 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM