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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
- 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.
- A difficult problem: Are traffic lights the answer for Culvert Road’s troublesome railway tunnel?
- In pictures: Partridges stationers & art suppliers closes after 60 years
- In pictures: Arding & Hobbs at Clapham Junction starts to emerge from the scaffolding
- All change, as the old Tearoom des Artistes on Wandsworth Road is reduced to rubble.
- It all goes wrong at Donna Margherita on Lavender Hill
- The surprising history of a smelly alley behind some bins near Battersea Park
- After decades of service, Hill Launderette fades in to history
- A takeaway disaster: was this Lavender Hill’s shortest-lived business?
- A rare high-rise industrial building being planned for Havelock terrace
- Clapham Junction’s Lidl supermarket is growing
- Controversial but useful – new offices & workspaces coming to Culvert Road in 2024
- New opening: Remedy Kitchen
- Battersea Park Station: Step-free at last?
- Opening soon on Lavender Hill: Marhaba Minimarket & butchers
- Arding & Hobbs in Clapham Junction: The first signs of what the redeveloped building will look like
- A spruce up for the Battersea Business Centre on Lavender Hill
- The enduring mystery of Sisters Avenue’s giant blue shed
- Retail roundup: new shops & businesses coming to Lavender Hill
- Battersea’s Rush Hill Road: History of a south London street
- Take a moment to appreciate the architecture of Battersea’s Reference Library
- New business in an unusual location: AL Coffee Roasters, a Colombian coffee roastery on Culvert Road
- In pictures: Wandsworth’s newest Council estate
- London photographer Ricky Leaver has a pop-up gallery, on Lavender Hill until 16th October
- Donna Margherita: back from the brink?
- All welcome to help build the community garden next to Battersea Arts Centre
- Up for sale: The Asparagus pub on Falcon Road
- The ‘Commercial Buildings’ ghost sign on Lavender Hill is back
- The Cedars Road Estate: A tale of two ambitious architects
- Tough times at No Boring Beer
- New occupant of the old Cornerstone Bookshop: Thermomix
- A refresh for Clapham Baptist Church’s mural
- Another new pub for Clapham Junction
- Queenstown Road station’s new entrance – progress at last?
- The 1960s canopy around Clapham Junction’s Arding & Hobbs building is coming down
- A bold new look for Khan’s Indian restaurant
- Several new cycle sheds on the streets & estates around Lavender Hill
- Donna Margherita: Is this goodbye?
- The new rooftop floor is appearing Clapham Junction’s landmark Arding & Hobbs building
- Fabrics Galore, celebrating 30 years of saving good people from bad fabrics…
- Reopened: Maiella Worth Cafe
- Back to the future with a new front entrance for the Clapham Grand
- Carpetman, the new occupier of Mr Liu’s old takeaway
- The lost community & uncertain future of Culvert Road
- Revealed: The first two new businesses replacing Debenhams in Clapham Junction
- The 1998 Motorcycle Murders on Lavender Hill
- An unusual new house for the Shaftesbury Estate
- New cafe: Maiella Worth, 789 Wandsworth Road
- A new ‘tiny house’ house for Marney Road?
- A cluster of new office developments is coming soon to Queenstown Road
- In Pictures: Ashley Crescent at dusk
- Farewell to The Corner Stone bookshop on Lavender Hill
- Has anyone forgotten a boat on Queenstown Road?
- In pictures: Lavender Hill’s fading mural still has plenty of charm
- Lavender Hill’s mystery weathervane
- A chance Google Street View encounter in Clapham
Category Archives: Politics
Is the proposed rough sleeper hub on the back burner?
March update: We have now heard (from a very reliable source!) that we expect new information to be added to the planning application in the next week or so, and for it to then go to another 21-day public consultation, … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Planning, Politics
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The latest on the planned rough sleepers’ hub opposite Battersea Arts Centre, following the Council’s public meeting
As we posted a few days ago – perhaps stung by the criticism surrounding the plans for a new Rough Sleeper Assessment Hub / Hostel opposite Battersea Arts Centre, which came as a surprise to its neighbours and which saw … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Planning, Politics
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The Council is hosting a public meeting, following huge controversy on their ‘stealth’ plans for a new hostel
A few weeks ago we found out about some rather vague plans for a new hostel for rough sleepers opposite Battersea Arts centre, which we noticed on a chance dig deep in the Wandsworth planning database. These were a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Planning, Politics, Street by street
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A new rough sleepers hostel opposite Battersea Arts Centre?
Plans have emerged to convert a small office building on Lavender Hill to a new hub for rough sleepers. 201-203 Lavender Hill, pictured above, would become the Borough’s new ‘rough sleeper assessment hub’. Part of the proposal is a traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Politics, Useful to know
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Clapham Common’s all-new free waterpark is open!
Just in time for the summer holidays, Clapham Common’s long awaited new waterplay facility has opened. It’s a replacement for the paddling pool that closed in 2020, and building work took a year longer than expected. But we got there … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Politics, Useful to know
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Battersea Park Station: Step-free at last?
Battersea Park railway station just keeps getting busier. It was never a quiet station, thanks to a steady stream of traffic from the Doddington & Rollo flats and the mansions around Battersea park, and some weekend traffic to the park … Continue reading
Posted in Planning, Politics, Transport
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Tough times at No Boring Beer
It’s not an easy time to be in retail. Budgets are squeezed, and costs are up – especially gas & electricity. And until recently, businesses were particularly in the firing line as they have not benefitted from the price caps … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Politics, Retail
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Exhibition and play on John Archer, the first Black Mayor in London – this Friday at Battersea Arts Centre
We’ve previously written in some detail about the impressive life story of John Archer – Mayor of Battersea back in 1013, Britain’s first Black mayor, and someone with an interesting and unusual life story. And this Friday sees the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Local history, Politics
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Legal challenge to Lambeth on their approach to Clapham Common
Controversy has erupted again on Clapham Common, with a protest this morning at the ‘events service entrance’ – prompted by the prospect of major events starting up on the recently repaired eastern section. The Common has recently emerged from nearly … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Planning, Politics
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John Archer, Battersea’s groundbreaking mayor, may be honoured with a statue on Lavender Hill
It’s surprising how little we talk about John Archer. Born in Liverpool, he and his Canadian wife moved to Battersea in 1890 when he was about 30. He was clearly an industrious gentleman, with myriad jobs over the years including … Continue reading
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