Clapham news
Clapham Junction has police injection
Awesome news for Clappers today as blonde bombshell Boris Johnson announced an influx of security in the form of a new police force in Clapham Junction. The nine person strong team will patrol the Clapham Junction area and its public transport. This is very welcome news for Love Clapham because not only are more Bobbies on the Beat a visible sign of reassurance, the size of the team means there’s some serious policing business to be had. Wrong doers begone! On a related note, the Clapham Town Safer Neighbourhoods Team has been in touch to say that “if anyone wants to speak to us in confidence regarding any criminal activities etc, just give us a call on the team number: 0208 721 2825.”
Young Lambeth
Young people in Lambeth are asking local residents to reconsider their opinions of kids and teens in the area. Apparently fewer than 3% of young people get involved in offenses and actually, there are groups of local young people wanting to help the Lambeth area including a Youth Council. There’s more information about the campaign and tonnes of other resources on the Young Lambeth website. Loving the posters.
Election fever sweeps Clapham. (Woo!)
If you’re anything like Love Clapham, elections can seem like a whole load of gobbledygook that only serious people take part in. No more! A year or so ago Love Clapham got serious about having a say in where our tax is spent and we’re going to help steer you through the upcoming European election in plain English. Read the rest of this entry »
Taxi touts in Clapham
Today Love Clapham HQ received a handy little leaflet updating us on the activities of the Clapham Town police force. Love Clapham has a particularly good view of the Clapham police force after they came to our aid on a couple of occasions in the past. In their leaflet the Clapham police highlight the priority to reduce anti-social behaviour in key areas of Clapham and the need to avoid illegal taxi touts. Read the rest of this entry »
Plans for hotel near Asda in Clapham Junction
It seems like all we’re doing at the moment is telling you about Clapham building developments, but they’re just so darn interesting! This time, it’s plans to replace an old office block with a state of the art hotel with restaurant. Sounds like a good plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Clapham Park project receives £13 million funding
A 3,000 home social housing project in Clapham Park between Brixton, Streatham, Balham and Clapham has been given a siginificant amount of extra funding. Read the rest of this entry »
Swine Flu closing in on Clapham
Despite the sensationalist headline and the truth behind it, there isn’t as much to be concerned about as the press are making us believe just yet. Although it is true that the piggy germs are getting closer with a few children from Dolphin School in Battersea being tested positive for Swine Flu on top of a few other cases in neighbouring areas like Dulwich. Read the rest of this entry »
Do you run a business in Clapham?
If you do, you should have already or shortly will receive a small leaflet explaining how Love Clapham can help you. This site is run by local residents and we want to support our local shops, cafes, bars and restaurants as much as possible. To do that, we want to start compiling all local special offers in our Clapham Offers forum. Read the rest of this entry »
Clapham High Street Woolworths becomes Boots
Love Clapham thought it was a real shame the day Woolworths packed up shop and left Clapham High Street. It was always going to be a battle of the big brands to take over the prime location and the one that won was Boots. Quite exciting news to have such a well known and successful High Street name. With Superdrug and a couple of independent chemists, Clappers are going to be spoilt for beauty products. Boots opens in June.
Clapham High Street train station facing closure
While browsing our Twitter feed last night, Love Clapham’s heart sank when we spotted a message about the likely closure of Clapham High Street station. Fair enough it’s the one station in Clapham that virtually no one knows about, but it serves an incredibly useful purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
More acts for SW4 festival on Clapham Common
Apparently Richie Hawtin is joining Dubfire, Steve Lawler and Layo & Bushwacka on one of the stages at the South West Four festival. Can’t say Love Clapham knows half of them but they’re probably GREAT. In fact, after a quick session on Spotify Love Clapham can confirm that they will almost certainly, perhaps even definitely, be excellent. At least we’ll recognise Sasha and Eric Prydz when the festival comes around in August… Keep a track of the full line-up on our SW4 page.
Clapham resident doesn’t have Swine Flu shocker
Love Clapham’s been watching the world go Swine Flu barmy over the last couple of days and even Clapham residents are in on it. The Wandsworth Guardian is telling everyone that a resident is being tested for Swine Flu even though “The patient hasn’t been to any of the infected areas.” We suspect there’s a hypercondriac in our midst. When did normal flu stop being good enough? Thankfully tests are likely to come back negative and we have enough drug stocks in case of an outbreak. Phew – thank goodness for that eh, Clapham.
| 1. | I TRAIN WITH TIM Personal Training | 1. | No Ben & Jerry's Festival this summer |
| 2. | Esca sandwiches - High Street | 2. | Still not enough decent shops |
| Clapham's new Leisure Centre | 3. | Litter on the Common | |
| 4. | Venn Street is now pedestrians only with a market every week! | ||
| 5. | The Black Lab for coffee and cake ... mmm |