Bec and Balham Community

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💰Council’s secret plans to sell community assets
🧽 Increasing rate of graffiti
🏊‍♂️ Lido opens after delays
⚒️ Pavements fixed

Your South Balham December Newsletter Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the December and last edition for 2023 of your South Balham Newsletter. Wandsworth Labour’s secret plan to sell off comm

Residents getting into the Christmas spirit across Tooting Bec and Balham ⛄️ 🎄

Last night two petitions were submitted to Wandsworth Council on behalf of residents.

Roads requiring attention appear to have been missed for resurfacing hence the strong support from residents to get them done. ✍️

Too much graffiti popping up in our local area these days and little being done about it by Wandsworth Borough Council 👎

Graffiti cleaned off after our team reported it to the council. 🧽

Fixed pavements on the corner of Elmfield Road and Carminia Road following local volunteers reporting it to Wandsworth Council ⚒️

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🚇 Tube station escalator maintenance
♻️ Missed recycling bag collection
📡 Phone mast installation consultation
👮 Crime survey

Your South Balham November Newsletter Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the November edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom Mytton, your local champion. Tackling rising local Crime

When Tooting Bec Tube station, known as Trinity Road Tube station at the time, was first opened.

Recycling bags have been delivered across Tooting Bec and Balham.♻️

However, there have been reports of some households being missed - you can collect more from your nearest public library.📚

An application to install a 15 metre Telecommunication Pole And Cabinet on Tooting Common has been submitted to Wandsworth Council (Planning case: 2023/4242).

Full info, inc links to comment on the application (comments close 05/12/2023): bit.ly/3G5cgK4

🚨The down escalator at Tooting Bec Tube station will be out of order for the next 5 months due to maintenance work.🚨

Local volunteers have been out dropping off poppies for sale at locations all over Tooting Bec and Balham. These include:

- The Cyclist Pub, Balham
- The Bedford Pub, Balham
- Caffè Nero, Balham
- Esquires Coffe, Balham
- Nightingale pub, Nightingale Lane
- No 3 Nightingale Place
- Dee Light Bakery, Ritherdon Road
- King’s Head Pub, Tooting Bec
- Rose and Crown pub, Tooting Bec

Volunteers will be outside local tube stations selling poppies this week.

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⬅️ Ritherdon Road Left Hand Turn
💷 172% Labour Councillor pay rise
👮‍♀️ Crime Survey
🌳 Save Our Park

South Balham | October Newsletter Local News from the South Balham, Tooting, and Wandsworth Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the October edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom My

Can you help preserve our borough’s hedgehogs? Enable, the team that runs the local parks, is investigating the health of the local hedgehog population and residents can help by submitting sightings of these lovely little creatures.

You can keep an eye out for them in parks and gardens; they like to live in areas with piles of leaves, logs or compost and under sheds. If you see one, don’t touch it, but send your sighting to Greenspace Information for Greater London at: https://www.gigl.org.uk/submit-records/submit-a-record

There's more about hedgehogs here: https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/wildlife/hedgehogs

Local Conservative GLA Candidate, Councillor Ellie Cox backs campaign to reinstate the Ritherdon Road Left-Hand Turn.

This is great news for local residents especially as local Labour representatives (MP, GLA Member and Councillors) have remained silent on this issue for the last three years.

Tooting Bec Common and Dr Johnson Avenue 🌳

Great to see the repainting of this sign on Huron Road following our team reporting it to the Council 🖌️

Finally, after 6 months Wandsworth Council has replaced this road sign on Manville Road that our team had reported 🪧

🚨Wandsworth Council REFUSES to buy Springfield Park for £1🚨

Support the local campaign to Save Springfield Park: https://www.savespringfieldpark.co.uk

https://rb.gy/rjcvd

Biggest new park since Olympics offered to council for £1 - they said no The cost of running it could now be passed on to residents moving into new homes nearby

A dangerous opening on a street lamp on Elmfield Road has been fixed followed our team reporting it 🛠️

New sign installed on Dornton Road following the local campaign to have it replaced 🪧

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📣 Local defibrillator campaign
🕳️ Fixing potholes
🚮 Reporting flytipping
🔨 Dealing with vandalism

South Balham | August Newsletter Local News from the South Balham, Tooting, and Wandsworth Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the August edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom Myt

🌺Guerilla gardening on Drakefield Road 🌸

Pothole on Bedford Hill repaired following the reporting of it by our volunteer team 🕳️

Following reporting by local volunteer, Tom Mytton, the gate on Elmfield Road has now been fixed following it being damaged. 🛠️

🚨Instant Physio Streetside Defib Appeal🚨

Local business, Instant Physio, is leading a campaign to have a streetside defibrillator installed. The importance of quick intervention should someone suffer a Heart Attack or Cardiac Arrest is crucial.

An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) or defibrillator is a life saving device that can help save the life of someone experiencing a sudden cardiac arrest.

The campaign is aiming to install one here locally, outside the clinic in Tooting Bec, by raising funds to provide one for the local community.

Support the campaign here 👇

Instant Physio Streetside Defib Appeal At Instant Physio we are very aware of the importance of quick intervention should someone suffer a Heart Attack or Cardiac Arrest. An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) or defibrillator is a life

After four months of campaigning our team is pleased to see Wandsworth Council has finally replaced this damaged post on Elmbourne Road 🛠️

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✍️ Ritherdon Road Left Hand Turn petition
🛠️ Dealing with vandalism
🌳 Tree removal and replacement
❌ Council slow at dealing with local issues

Your South Balham July Newsletter Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the July edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom Mytton, your local champion. UPDATE: Ritherdon Road Left-Han

⚽️ FOOTBALL PITCH FOR HIRE ⚽️

From September, Ravenstone Primary School is hiring out their Football pitch. Times available are:

Monday 19:30-21:00
Tuesday 19:00-21:00
Wednesday 20:00-21:00
Thursday 19:30-21:00
Saturday 09:00-16:00

For further enquiries please contact:
[email protected]

Thousands of local residents have backed the local campaign to reinstate the Ritherdon Road Left Hand turn. Campaigner, Tom Mytton took the petition to Wandsworth Council to be submitted this evening.

“The reinstatement should have happened last summer but has been delayed without any reason why. Local elected Labour representatives have remained silent. It’s clear this should and can happen and I hope that the council and Transport for London finally listen to residents.”

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🏊‍♀️ Lido delays mean summer closure
🚩 Supporting community events
🪧 Continued road sign success
🗑️ Dealing with more flytipping

South Balham | June Newsletter Local News from the South Balham, Tooting, and Wandsworth Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the June edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom Mytto

Brand new sign installed on Ryde Vale Road following it being reported to be replaced 🪧

Sunny views across to Tooting and Tooting Bec Common ☀️

🚨Tooting Bec Lido improvement works delayed - closed for the summer🚨

Communications seen from Wandsworth Council indicate that there are delays to the works. This is disappointing for local residents.

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🌉 Wandsworth Bridge closure
👩‍⚕️ Save our local GP practice
⚡️More EV charging points
🌺 Guerrilla Gardening

Ritherdon Road Left Hand Turn Reinstatement, Wandsworth Bridge Closure and More. A newsletter from your South Balham local champion Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email Dear Neighbour, Welcome to the May edition of your South Balham Newsletter, from Tom Mytton, you

🌳 Tooting Bec Common 🌳

⚡️ New EV charging points in South Balham ⚡️

Local campaigner Tom Mytton said, “For the last two years of knocking on doors and speaking to residents there has been strong feedback for even more EV charging points to be installed in the local area.

Working with residents I’m delighted to see the council surveying local roads to install additional charging points.”

Graffiti cleaned up and giving this sign on Many Gates a good wash at the same time. 🧽