Last weekend (9th and 10th August) was the exciting second annual RideLondon cycle event in London. As part of the event, dozens of professional cyclists as well as thousands of amateurs and enthusiasts were able to cycle the traffic-free route from the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park to Box Hill in Surrey and back including […]

Lib Dem councillors were successful at the Council meeting tonight,  getting the Council to agree to introduce a “One Planet Merton” framework, requiring all Council policies and activities to be judged against their impact on the environment. We know we need to reduce our ecological footprint by two thirds in order to establish a fairer […]

Merton’s £32million bid to transform Wimbledon town centre into a ‘mini-Holland’ has been turned down the by Mayor of London. Outer London councils had been given the opportunity to win a major share of the Mayor’s £100m ‘Mini-Holland’ fund to transform cycling in their areas. Whilst Merton’s full bid was turned down, a smaller amount […]

We think that it’s important that people are listened to – and residents in Wimbledon & Raynes Park have listed litter and dirt in the streets as the ‘top personal concern’ in the Council’s 2013 survey. Just under half of the residents who completed that survey from our area were dissatisfied with the way Merton Council deals […]

This post discusses the recent history of proposals for developing the Rainbow Industrial Estate by Raynes Park station. Proposals for development since 2009 We’ve been campaigning against inappropriate development on the site since 2009, when a proposed food waste processing plant was stopped because of concerns about air pollution caused by extra traffic bringing in […]

AFTER confirming to us in February that the bridge at Wimbledon Chase Station would be repainted this year, work has eventually begun. We’re really pleased that this is happening, especially given our 2 year campaign to get Network Rail to paint out the worst aspects of the graffiti on the bridge that was eventually successful […]

Anthony Fairclough and Giles Bailey visited Richard Hiblen at the new Green Square: Home Energy Centre office on Kingston Road in mid July. We were keen to understand perspectives on the Government’s  Green Deal, what advice and services were on offer, as well as reaction from the local community to energy saving measures. Green Square […]

Over 700 people signed our petition about the unfairness of the flate-rate cost of annual visitors’ parking permits. Each year, Council committees called ‘Overview and Scrutiny panels’ investigate aspects of the Council’s work and suggest improvements. The panels choose the issues they will investigate, and have just set their work programmes for 2013/14. We called […]

Residents have recently complained to us about the state of the former Emma Hamilton site. The site was previously cleaned fairly regularly, but this seems to have stopped in the last couple of months. The site is now attracting litter and dumped rubbish. On 20 April, we contacted the site owner’s agents to request action. […]

A new action group was launched in Merton on 17 October, to campaign to get a default 20mph speed limit applied across the borough. Over 8 million people already live in towns where the default speed limit is 20mph – cutting the overall speed of traffic, reducing injuries and damage from accidents, and lowering pollution. […]