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Lavender Hill for Me is a community website working to support Lavender Hill, a neighbourhood in Battersea, London and a home to about 250 shops, restaurants and small businesses. We take an active interest in developments that could improve Lavender Hill for residents, traders and visitors.
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Recent Posts
- Clapham Junction’s Rough Sleepers Hub opens for business
- Thames Water’s leaky Lavender Hill water main: Will the shambles ever end?
- In pictures: Falcon Road bridge’s transformation
- In pictures: Himalayan Salt, a smart new Indian restaurant, opens on Lavender Hill
- A fall from grace: Is there a future for Clapham’s little-known Georgian orangery?
- In pictures: The Shelf, a new approach to retail, opens on Lavender Hill
- Lavender Hill Police Station is closing – what does it mean for local policing?
- In pictures: Work starts on improving Falcon Road’s horrible bridge
- In pictures: Lavender Hill’s brand new pottery studio
- Queenstown Road’s most special tree gains protected status
- In pictures: An upgrade is on the way for the southern half of Queenstown Road
- In pictures: Arding & Hobbs is ready for another century
- Cult pizza place Yard Sale is coming to Lavender Hill
- New pub alert: The Queens Arms is open
- Special report: Is there a way forward for Lambeth’s troubled Westbury Estate redevelopment?
- The Kitchen Shoppe returns – in much the same form – as Clapham Discount Store
- An unusual house is up for auction, at a bargain-basement price, on Broughton Street
- In pictures: A new start for a cluster of buildings on Wandsworth Road, that were once some of Clapham’s busiest bars.
- Queenstown Road Station’s second entrance is finally happening
- With Corecore and Common Pizza now open, and two branches of Rudy’s on the way, things are looking good for local pizza
- Six unusual new houses are coming to a secret passageway near Battersea Arts Centre
- After losing its license in murderous circumstances, Dirty Blonde on Wandsworth Road looks for a fresh start
- New opening: CoreCore Pizzeria on Queenstown Road
- Is one of Queenstown Road’s longest-abandoned shops coming back to life?
- New pub alert: Bohem Brewery is coming to Battersea
- In pictures: Building work underway at the Holy Trinity on Clapham Common
- Two new five-storey buildings coming to Tyneham Close
- Are Battersea Power Station’s historic cranes being quietly scrapped?
- A cluster of changes for some of Lavender Hill’s traders
- Change ahead for Clapham Junction’s Party Superstore?
- In pictures: Building work completes on Clapham Common’s new cafe
- A small but clever development at the old Firezza takeaway on Lavender Hill
- Lane Eight Coffee opens on Lavender Hill
- A house with more history than most: Double blue plaque unveiling on Lavender Sweep this Saturday
- A spruce-up for one of Battersea’s scruffiest buildings
- Special report: A spike in crime? What’s going on & what can we do about it?
- A happy ending for Clapham Common Northside’s oldest house?
- In pictures: Harley’s Food Hall brings a smarter grocers to Lavender Hill
- The Greatest Attraction in London: Battersea’s fleeting & forgotten People’s Palace
- Saved: Clapham Common’s crumbling & unstable toilet building finds a new lease of life
- Fat Phill’s burgers are coming to Clapham Junction
- Meet Marsha de Cordova, Labour candidate for Battersea
- Meet Georgina Burford-Connole, Rejoin EU party candidate for Battersea
- What does the future hold for Battersea’s industrial spaces?
- Meet Francis Chubb, Liberal Democrats candidate for Battersea
- Meet Dan Smith, Workers Party of Britain candidate for Battersea
- We’ve interviewed Battersea’s candidates for the July election – and found a few surprises…
- Meet Tom Pridham, Conservative candidate for Battersea
- Meet Barry Edwards, the Reform UK candidate for Battersea
- Meet Joe Taylor, the Green Party candidate for Battersea
- Like a cat: Clapham Common’s most historic house escapes demolition yet again!
- Plans are in for five new flats on Gideon Road, behind The Crown on Lavender Hill
- As Lavender Hill’s colony of Lime bikes grows, and with scooters set to join the party too: can Wandsworth bring order to the chaos?
- In pictures: Clapham Junction’s impressive new Italian deli and cafe, Prezzemolo & Vitale
- Food waste recycling is coming to Lavender Hill – what happens to the food collected, and what is the environmental impact?
- It’s back: a new public consultation is underway on the Clapham Junction rough sleeper hub
- Lavender Hill retail roundup – March 2024
- Taybridge Road’s long-abandoned corner shop may finally see a new use
- A rather unique historic house on Clapham Common is for sale (and maybe demolition)
- Is the proposed rough sleeper hub on the back burner?
- Lambeth’s Planning officers face the interesting question of whether Dirty Blonde is a bar or a club
- Social Affair, a new coffee shop & restaurant, has just opened on Lavender Hill
- A bold proposal… to abandon the promised landscaping in the Avery Walk housing development
- Mystery surrounds the future of the Lavender Hill Fitness First
- The latest on the planned rough sleepers’ hub opposite Battersea Arts Centre, following the Council’s public meeting
- A new block of flats is being planned next to the Co-op on Wandsworth Road
- The Council is hosting a public meeting, following huge controversy on their ‘stealth’ plans for a new hostel
- The first part of Clapham Junction’s redeveloped Arding & Hobbs opens for business
- pHresh Juice, a new juice & coffee bar on Lavender Hill
- Calling parents: Open mornings at the Belleville Wix Academy
- A sneak preview of the impressive new gym coming to Arding & Hobbs at Clapham Junction
- A new cafe, Pique, has opened on Lavender Hill
- Lavender Hill Retail Roundup – October 2023
- A house on Garfield Road may be converted to a 14-person HMO
- A new rough sleepers hostel opposite Battersea Arts Centre?
- A spruce-up for the Gideon Road Estate’s neglected garden area
- Some cleverly designed flats on Taybridge Road are in the running for the biggest prize in architecture
- Five fairly luxurious new Council flats are coming to the car park behind The Crown on Lavender Hill
- Clapham Common’s all-new free waterpark is open!
- Factory developers, social reformers, fearless pilots, celebrated artists, tenacious campaigners and ‘dangerous subversives’: the pioneering women of Battersea’s early days.
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In pictures: Building work completes on Clapham Common’s new cafe
We’ve reported several times on the long-abandoned toilet building in Battersea Woods. The details, and lots of interior shots, are in something we published a few months ago, here – but the short version is that these toilets were abandoned … Continue reading
Posted in Clapham Common, Environment, Food & drink
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A small but clever development at the old Firezza takeaway on Lavender Hill
Lavender Hill was the birthplace of pizza takeaway chain Firezza. It was founded in 2001 by Adnan Medjedovic and Edin Basic, both Bosnian war refugees who had fled the conflict in 1992, and who spent the following years in a … Continue reading
Lane Eight Coffee opens on Lavender Hill
There’s a new arrival on Lavender Hill: Lane Eight Coffee opened a couple of weeks ago at No. 125 (at the corner of Stormont Road, opposite the Church of the Ascension). Lane Eight will be familiar to some of our … Continue reading
Posted in Food & drink, Retail
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A house with more history than most: Double blue plaque unveiling on Lavender Sweep this Saturday
84 Lavender Sweep doesn’t exactly stand out from the crowd. A terrace like the others, just off Battersea Rise, the only thing that’s a little different at first glance is the rather elegant arched window above the inner front door, … Continue reading
Posted in Local history, Street by street
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A spruce-up for one of Battersea’s scruffiest buildings
Everyone likes a good ‘before & after’ property makeover, and the building on the corner of Queenstown Road and Battersea Park road has been needing one for a while! A rather manky-looking building, it would logically have been absorbed by … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Housing, Planning
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Special report: A spike in crime? What’s going on & what can we do about it?
This post on crime covers topics some readers may find disturbing. Late last year, some unsavoury characters turned up on Lavender Hill. Four men, rough-looking, roaming round with the oddly bouncy, ‘on a mission’ type walk walk that seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Crime & security, Politics, Retail
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A happy ending for Clapham Common Northside’s oldest house?
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 was a country cottage in the fields. We first reported … Continue reading
Posted in Clapham Common, Housing, Local history, Planning
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In pictures: Harley’s Food Hall brings a smarter grocers to Lavender Hill
Lavender Hill has a smart and unusual new supermarket. Back in March we reported that the large premises at 207-217 Lavender Hill (next to the junction with Latchmere Road & Elspeth Road) was set to become a new supermarket. And … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Food & drink, Retail
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The Greatest Attraction in London: Battersea’s fleeting & forgotten People’s Palace
The 1880s were quite a big moment for Battersea. The railway had arrived, bringing with them an explosion of development – with houses, streets, entire neighbourhoods being built. There was a lot of money around, and everything and anything seemed … Continue reading
Posted in Curiosities, Local history, Street by street
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Saved: Clapham Common’s crumbling & unstable toilet building finds a new lease of life
They’ve been on the brink of collapse for years! There are cracks around the walls at the back, brambles have taken over the access paths, someone stole most of the roof, and the whole building has a slight lean to … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Clapham Common, Environment, Food & drink
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