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 […]

Merton and Sutton Councils, along with Transport for London, are consulting residents on an extension to the Tramlink service. The extension would potentially go from South Wimbledon station to Sutton town centre via  Morden and St Helier Hospital. There are some variations in the proposed route, but it would travel along the main roads as […]

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 […]

Merton is awaiting the outcome of its bid for funding from Transport for London for a ‘mini-holland‘ scheme, to improve cycling routes and facilities in the borough. These should be announced by the Mayor of London in mid Feb 2014. The funding is supposed to provide approximately three outer London boroughs with the funds to […]

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 […]

Following a backlash from the public, Merton Council announced a u-turn on the decision to include Wimbledon Library in a list of sites open for future development. Following the announcement, Focus Team member Anthony Fairclough (who also runs the Wimbledon Station Book Swap) said: I’m really pleased that Merton Council have listened to residents and […]

A campaign has been launched by Wimbledon resident, Andrew Craig Nicol, a library volunteer, to save Wimbledon library from inappropriate development (there’s a petition on the Council’s website here). What’s the issue? Merton Council has placed the Wimbledon library building on its ‘sites and policies DPD’ – a list of sites earmarked for development in […]

A Planning Application (13/P1802) has been submitted by Next Group plc and Friends Life Ltd to demolish an existing building and construct a 3 level Next Home store at 88 Bushey Road, Raynes Park, SW20 OJH. This is at the corner of Bushey Road and the A3/Beverley Way.

The Wimbledon Guardian reports that the plans to expand Dundonald primary onto Dundonald recreation ground have suffered another setback, after objections to the expansion by Sport England (the body that promotes and protects sports facilities) were reinstated. The setback comes just two weeks after Merton Council won a legal case to remove restrictions imposed by […]