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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
- Tall, Dark and Malodorous: The rise and fall of Battersea’s stink pipes
- A change of guard for The Crown on Lavender Hill
- In pictures: From dodgy derelict toilets, to Clapham Common’s newest cafe
- How long can it take to build ten steps? The decade-long saga of Queenstown Road’s second entrance
- Six new houses may be on the way to a well-hidden part of Queenstown Road
- A colossal new advertising screen may be coming to Sisters Avenue
- A pair of green plaques are being unveiled this week, in Nine Elms & Lavender Hill
- Shapurji Saklatvala, Battersea’s controversial one-of-a-kind MP in the 1920s, will be recognised with a plaque this Friday
- Antrim House may be about to gain a bundle of phone masts
- 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
Category Archives: Environment
Coming soon, to a lamp post near you: Electric car chargers
Something unusual’s happening to all the lamp posts on Clapham Common Northside. You may have seen it yourself – what usually happens is a gentleman in hi-viz digs holes about two feet deep, throws in a big copper grid, wires … Continue reading
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A small block of flats may be built on Eccles Road / Parma Crescent
One of the houses on Eccles Road is smaller than the others, but with a much larger garden. Regular readers can probably already see where this is going!… Developers love houses like the one above – with a huge garden, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Housing, Planning
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Fresh new look for a tired old building on Lavender Hill
The scaffolding has come off 7 Lavender Hill – which used to be the home of CutPoint barbers over the ground floor and basement, and a 4-bed flat spread across the upper levels. The property, close to the junction with … Continue reading
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The planning inspector agrees: advertising hoardings can’t avoid the planning process by pretending to be payphones
Some good news. Over the last few years, Wandsworth has seen a big increase in the number of payphones. Which might seem strange, in the days of mobile phones – until you see these new ‘phone boxes’ and realise that … Continue reading
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Clapham Junction’s new Christmas lights – brought to you by our local traders
Clapham Junction’s got its first Christmas tree in a while, thanks to the The Junction BID (that’s Business Improvement District) – an organisation supported and funded entirely by local traders, aiming to improve the overall success of the town centre. … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Environment, Retail
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An ‘accidental’ sculpture for Lavender Hill’s new urban park
We’ve previously reported on Battersea Arts Centre’s project to create a small urban park that would cover the whole of Town Hall Road as well as the raised platform next door (which had been built in the early 1970s as … Continue reading
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Can you really rely on an electric car without a driveway to charge it in? A review of our local charging points.
Electric cars are the future. Big manufacturers are stopping investing in diesel and petrol cars (whose UK sales are set to be banned altogether by 2040), the battery technology’s come on leaps and bounds, and (perhaps most importantly) the electricity … Continue reading
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New cycle hire location on the way – south end of Cedars Road
In a small extension of the area covered by the cycle hire scheme, TfL are proposing a new docking station for Santander Cycles, close to the southern end of Cedars Road. This one of three proposed new stations (the others … Continue reading
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Interesting new project on Wixs Lane
We see all manner of clumsy opportunist proposals for new buildings in the Lavender Hill area, especially when it’s a case of landlords trying to cram as many tiny and dark flats in to a space as possible – but … Continue reading
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Battersea’s newest street: Avery Walk
It’s not every day a new street appears in Battersea, but Avery Walk (connecting Stormont Road and Sugden Road) is now complete, and open to the public. Actually calling it a new street is maybe overplaying it a bit – … Continue reading
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