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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
- 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
- A new cafe, Pique, has opened on Lavender Hill
Category Archives: Food & drink
Megan’s innovative new outdoor restaurant on the Common opens this Friday
We’ve taken a quick look behind the scenes. Small-but-growing local business Megan’s took a new lease on the long-closed and dilapidated Recovery Cafe next to the skate park & basketball courts, and for the last month they have since been … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Clapham Common, Environment, Food & drink, Useful to know
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Feeling brave? The toilets in the woods on Clapham Common are up for rent, to entrepreneurs with ideas.
They’ve been boarded up for as long as most of us can remember. At one stage someone stole part of the roof. The whole building leans just slightly. And they narrowly escaped complete demolition over a decade ago. But somehow, … Continue reading
Posted in Clapham Common, Environment, Food & drink, Planning, Useful to know
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Megan’s has big plans for the Clapham Common skate park cafe
A few weeks ago we reported that the gradually-deteriorating former Recovery Kitchen next door to the basketball courts had gone under offer for around £25,000 a year. And now we know that it’s being taken over by local restaurateur Megan’s, who already … Continue reading
Posted in Clapham Common, Environment, Food & drink, Planning
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Lavender Hill retail roundup – February 2021
It’s been a tough few months for our traders, with the always-difficult start of the year combining with yet another lockdown – but Lavender Hill has held up better than most. One of the emerging themes of lockdowns is that … Continue reading
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The Queens Arms in Battersea is back! A rare reopening of a long-closed neighbourhood pub.
It’s been closed since March 2017, and at some points we wondered if it would ever return – having seen major building works to add flats on the roof, a distinctly architectural new house built in the yard, and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Battersea, Queens arms pub, SW8 3SS
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Baguette Deli: A new French cafe on Lavender Hill
London is full of little nationality clusters, and the eastern end of Lavender Hill is very much a French one! It’s been helped by the Wix French and bilingual school (a pioneering initiative that’s been running for over a decade), … Continue reading
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Lavender Hill’s Pizza Express is reopening
It’s a difficult time to be in the restaurant trade, whether you’re an independent trader or a large nationwide chain. Amid a painful series of layoffs and closures, it’s maybe not surprising that Pizza Express has been the latest to … Continue reading
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Could the mystery of 53 Lavender Hill be close to an end?
Update (January 2021) – it’s finally occupied! By established local signmaker Signtair, who have relocated from their smaller previous shop across the road. Signtair’s former unit also has a new tenant which we’ll report on soon. 53 Lavender Hill is … Continue reading
Posted in Food & drink, Planning, Retail
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Clapham Common’s bandstand cafe’s becoming an off license
La Baita, the well-established cafe at the centre of Clapham Common, is applying to Lambeth Council to also run as an off license – for sale of alcohol that can be taken elsewhere on the common. Their current license limits … Continue reading
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Updates on the Queens Arms: Does a new licensee mean a reopening? And an architecturally bold extension.
Some good news on the Queens Arms, just off Queenstown Road. Neighbours & regular readers will know it was closed in 2017, and architects Boon Brown won planning permission to redevelop it, creating five flats (four two-bed ones and a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Food & drink, Planning
Tagged Battersea, Closed pub, Queens Arms
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