Wandsworth's new chief executive: £294,120 a year. In 2022 the same job came with a full public account of how it was chosen. This time, two letters asking why have gone unanswered. https://putney.news/2026/07/15/council-names-new-294k-chief-executive/ #Wandsworth

Two new shops have just opened on Putney High Street. Round the corner, one of Bridge Road's best-loved cafes has some very different news. https://putney.news/2026/07/15/new-shops-open-on-putney-high-street-as-a-bridge-road-favourite-says-its-closing/ #Putney #London

Council names new £294k chief executive https://putney.news/2026/07/15/council-names-new-294k-chief-executive/

There's a wetland reserve across the river in Barnes with a dragonfly rangers weren't expecting this season. It's running daily activities all summer because of it. What's turned up: https://putney.news/2026/07/15/londons-first-dragonfly-festival-runs-all-summer/ #Barnes #London

The government says a third runway won't make Putney's noise worse. Last night's meeting heard the opposite - and there's a deadline to object. What's at stake: https://putney.news/2026/07/14/third-runway-would-halve-putneys-noise-break-last-nights-meeting-heard/ #Heathrow #Putney

Two West Hill men are charged over the death of Dale Mundell. Joshua Miller, 32, faces a murder charge; Jamie Cooper, 27, is charged with preventing a lawful burial. Both remanded to Crown Court. https://putney.news/2026/07/14/two-west-hill-men-charged-over-suitcase-death/

⚠️ A toddler was filmed stroking a wild stag in Richmond Park. Royal Parks says the calm-looking deer can seriously hurt you, or worse. How close is too close: https://putney.news/2026/07/14/toddler-among-group-filmed-stroking-richmond-parks-wild-stags/ #Putney #RichmondPark

Is Pata Negra actually the best value lunch in Putney? £15 for two courses, cooked to order by the owner himself — not reheated. https://putney.news/2026/07/13/is-this-the-best-value-lunch-in-putney/ #Putney #London

One Wandsworth officer falsified a dying man's suicide-watch record. Written warning. A second officer did the same - and got nothing, because he'd already resigned. https://putney.news/2026/07/13/the-prisons-ombudsman-wants-an-independent-watchdog-hmp-wandsworth-proves-why/ #Wandsworth

A scaffolding tower blew over on Putney High Street, injuring two people badly. The firm had already crossed safety inspectors once before, elsewhere. What it took to hold them to account: https://putney.news/2026/07/13/scaffolding-firm-fined-30460-over-putney-high-street-tower-collapse/ #Putney

TfL spent £500,000 saying the Wimbledon branch was ready. It's failed three times since. What TfL ruled out in writing in 2024: https://putney.news/2026/07/12/tfls-500000-fix-for-the-wimbledon-branch-has-failed-three-times-already/ #Wimbledon #Putney

Estate agency opens a café on Upper Richmond Road. Genuinely. Staff were meant to pull espresso shots between viewings. Here's who's actually behind the counter: https://putney.news/2026/07/12/buy-a-flat-grab-a-latte-all-at-one-putney-counter/ #Putney

Wandsworth's deputy Labour leader has resigned. One seat short of outright control, the Conservatives could win it in Trinity. What a majority means for the deal keeping them in power: https://putney.news/2026/07/12/labour-deputy-leader-resigns-leaving-council-control-wide-open/

New £9.5m "upgrade" poster at Putney Leisure Centre. Eight facilities detailed in full. The pool gets one sentence. No lane count. No length. What the poster and survey leave out: https://putney.news/2026/07/11/putney-leisure-centres-new-survey-doesnt-ask-about-the-pool/ #Putney #Wandsworth

A Putney investor went looking for a debt crisis. He found Harold Wilson's mistress instead, and wrote a play named after Hammersmith Bridge. https://putney.news/2026/07/11/hammersmith-bridge-has-been-shut-for-seven-years-now-it-has-its-own-play/ #Putney #Theatre

⚠️ Wandsworth's council leader is quitting, six weeks after leading the Conservatives back into power. He says he can't combine the role with his law firm job. Who takes over next: putney.news/2026/07/10/c... #Wandsworth

Admiral's lawyer called Putney gambling objectors anti-gambling. The two residents who spoke had something else on their minds entirely. What came out under questioning: #Putney #Gambling

Dead fish have turned up again in Wimbledon Park Lake this week. Officials blame the heat. Residents say they were told something very different about last year's near-identical incident. #Wimbledon

A second sinkhole has opened on Fanthorpe Street, Putney — ten metres from one that appeared about a year ago. Thames Water's turned up this time, and nobody's said why yet. https://putney.news/2026/07/10/road-shut-as-second-sinkhole-opens-up-on-fanthorpe/ #Putney #Wandsworth

Wandsworth's heritage committee liked the old Lloyds Bank flats design. An inspector has now agreed with them. The scheme still failed - for a reason that had nothing to do with how it looked. #Putney #Planning

Groundhog Day: Council unveils new plans for Putney Bridge junction https://putney.news/2026/07/09/groundhog-day-council-unveils-new-plans-for-putney-bridge-junction/

A cheap plastic spatula just got recalled on Putney High Street — it can leak a cancer-linked chemical into your food. And it's far from the only one in your drawer. https://putney.news/2026/07/09/got-a-plastic-cooking-tool-a-high-street-recall-says-think-twice/ #Putney #FoodSafety

Wandsworth paid £360,000 to demolish part of the Alton Estate. It's still standing three months on. Why the MP is fighting to save the plan: https://putney.news/2026/07/08/mp-launches-petition-to-save-alton-estate-rebuild/ #Roehampton #Wandsworth

Wandsworth and Richmond's £300,000 top job is decided tomorrow, behind closed doors — again. We wrote twice asking why. No reply. https://putney.news/2026/07/08/nothing-about-wandsworths-300000-top-job-has-been-made-public/ #Wandsworth #Accountability

Two 15-year-old Battersea schoolgirls turned rotting food into real electricity, and just won third place nationally for it. What they think it could power next: https://putney.news/2026/07/08/their-food-waste-bin-doubles-as-a-power-station/ #Putney #Battersea

Wandsworth Town's £20m accessibility upgrade is officially on track — three lifts, a new entrance, step-free access to all four platforms by 2027. What's changing, and when: https://putney.news/2026/07/07/wandsworth-town-station-is-about-to-get-some-breathing-room/ #Wandsworth #London

Admiral says most of the 58 objections to its new Putney arcade don't count in law. Not one police objection. Not one from the council's safeguarding team. What its lawyers argue: #Putney #Wandsworth

Hammersmith Bridge is not going to reopen to cars. No cabinet member objected. Richmond and Wandsworth demanded this for years, then refused to pay. What happened next got personal: https://putney.news/2026/07/07/hammersmith-bridge-council-approves-plan-not-to-fix-it/ #Putney

Oasis Academy Putney's closure is now legally official. Its only building sits over a land deal a charity inquiry called dodgy — and its future is now up for grabs. What happens next: #Putney #Wandsworth

The government's just admitted an expanded Heathrow means less quiet time over Putney. One meeting Monday tells you what to say, before the first deadline shuts ten days later. https://putney.news/2026/07/06/putneys-heathrow-meeting-kicks-off-two-deadlines-ten-days-apart/ #Putney #Heathrow

That boarded-up old Bill's? Someone wants in. An Ealing sushi restaurant has applied for signs, one of which says karaoke. https://putney.news/2026/07/06/sushi-restaurant-to-take-over-putneys-old-bills-site/ #Putney #Restaurants

What we’re really arguing about when we argue about Hammersmith Bridge https://putney.news/2026/07/05/what-were-really-arguing-about-when-we-argue-about-hammersmith-bridge/

A car's back on Felsham Road, Putney, the first sign Wandsworth's Zipcar scheme might be working. The council's own paperwork shows one deal quietly ending this month. https://putney.news/2026/07/05/putney-gets-a-zipcar-replacement-but-only-one/ #Putney #Wandsworth

A dolphin swam past Putney Bridge this week. It didn't make it back out to sea. This isn't the first time, and scientists think they know why. https://putney.news/2026/07/05/a-dolphin-swam-right-past-putney-bridge-this-week-it-never-made-it-back-to-sea/ #Thames #Wildlife

The Creedence tribute act that packed the Half Moon on Friday has never played America. Where they fill thousand-person rooms instead: https://putney.news/2026/07/04/the-bayou-came-to-the-half-moon-crickets-and-helicopters-included/ #Putney #LiveMusic

Wandsworth Council was warned in writing it couldn't check the Fox House roof for fire safety. Three years later, that roof burned. 100 people fled. What the council did with the warning: #Battersea #London

The only shop left open on this Putney High Street stretch just moved overnight to stay trading. What's next: https://putney.news/2026/07/04/overnight-move-opens-door-to-high-street-renovation/ #Putney

Wandsworth's pension board keeps calling failing transfer figures "excellent." Live, this week, again. What it discussed doing instead, five months earlier: https://putney.news/2026/07/03/wandsworth-pension-board-calls-failing-transfer-figures-excellent-again/ #Accountability #Wandsworth

Wandsworth pension board calls failing transfer figures excellent again https://putney.news/2026/07/03/wandsworth-pension-board-calls-failing-transfer-figures-excellent-again/

Casa Manolo has closed on Putney High Street after eight years. Its letting brochure went up in May, while the tapas was still being served. What it says about the price: https://putney.news/2026/07/03/putneys-ham-shop-hangs-up-its-knife-after-eight-years/ #Putney

Thamesfield stopped flagging Lacy Road for vehicle crime in May, after the numbers improved. This week, someone smashed windows there again. What the data shows: https://putney.news/2026/07/03/cars-targeted-again-on-the-putney-street-police-flagged-in-february/ #Putney #Thamesfield

Half of you said: blow up Hammersmith Bridge and start again. We checked the numbers. A new bridge costs about the same as the repair, and it would carry cars again. Why hasn't it happened? putney.news/2026/07/02/k... #Putney #London

Half of you said blow up Hammersmith Bridge and start again. On the numbers, you have a point. So why is it still shut, seven years on? https://putney.news/2026/07/02/knocking-down-hammersmith-bridge-is-the-sensible-answer/ #Putney #London

West Putney violence is at its worst in years. Residents asked why, again, after police promised in March they'd find out. What they got this time: https://putney.news/2026/07/02/high-crime-stats-no-answers-west-putneys-washout-meeting/ #Putney #London

A prison chaplain. A former magistrate. Parents whose kids ask 'can we go in?' 58 objections to a 24-hour Putney gambling arcade. None in support. Thursday the council decides. https://putney.news/2026/07/01/id-rather-have-an-empty-site-than-another-gambling-venue/ #Putney

13 mopeds and e-bikes seized off Putney High Street, every rider now facing court. Officers have named the street they are targeting next. https://putney.news/2026/07/01/13-mopeds-and-e-bikes-seized-in-putney-high-street-operation/ #Putney

Hammersmith Bridge isn't reopening to cars and buses. Seven years, £54m, and the people who could fix it have given up. What they're now saying about it: https://putney.news/2026/06/30/putneys-traffic-misery-is-permanent-now-hammersmith-bridge-wont-reopen/ #Putney #London

Wandsworth spent every penny of its £56m hospital discharge fund. Still missed the targets. An officer's report explains why — and it's not what you'd expect from a council end-of-year document. #Wandsworth #NHS #Accountability

Residents arrived in Wimbledon Park at dawn wearing giant ears. A queuing tennis fan walked over to argue the case for AELTC. Didn't quite leave the same way. What happened: https://putney.news/2026/06/30/giant-ears-at-dawn-the-protest-aeltc-is-trying-not-to-hear/ #WimbledonPark #Wimbledon

Violence in West Putney has roughly halved since January. Tonight's ward panel is the first since March — when officers admitted they couldn't explain the rise. Two of the three priorities are now moving in the wrong direction. Six questions for officers tonight: