The ward’s Heritage at Risk pieces of history

This article follows on from the article about the Temple in the grounds of Mount Clare, Minstead Gardens. From this it was thought it might be worthwhile explaining a bit more about those buildings which are listed by Historic England as Heritage at Risk.

When did the buildings become Heritage at Risk?

Email (dated 10 January 2018) from Historic England listed the following years as to when they were registered as Heritage at Risk;

• Temple in the Grounds of Mount Clare – 1999
• The Montague Arms, Medfield Street – 2008
• Former White Lion, 14-16 Putney High Street – 2015
• Putney Vale Cemetery Gates – 2016

 Notice how three of these buildings feature in the Roehampton & Putney Heath ward?

Next year the Temple, if still on the list, will be celebrating 20 years on the list?

As the Temple has been covered, it might be worth sharing photos with you of the other buildings.

The Montague Arms

Putney Vale Cemetery Gates

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Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

• Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk
• Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk
• Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email your local Member of Parliament at;

• Justine Greening – greeningj@parliament.uk

For a different view of Roehampton, especially the Alton Estate

• Web – https://www.altonwatch.org.uk/
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/AltonWatch
• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/AltonRegenerationWatch

Temple in grounds of Mount Clare, Minstead Gardens

Off the back of the article ‘Wandsworth (Conservation Area) Advisory Committee (9 January 2018)’ there were a couple of requests to add a photo of the Temple to the blog. A generous photographer from the Alton West part of the estate provided a picture, which is provided below. This picture was taken roughly in November 2014, note that even then this Grade II* monument was boarded up. In the photo you can see in the background the DARA Focus Hall.

 

Perhaps what is a little surprising is how long it has taken to start placing this monument on the radar for some needed attention. At the Putney Society organised event ‘Roehampton University and how it relates to the local community’ on 24 September 2015 the Temple was asked about and there was a mention of the Temple being Heritage at risk and that there had been some vandalism to it.

Please note that all information is provided on a best efforts basis and that readers should make their own efforts to review and assess the provided content.

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

• Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk
• Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk
• Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

 Or email your local Member of Parliament at;

• Justine Greening – greeningj@parliament.uk

For a different view of Roehampton, especially the Alton Estate

• Alton Regeneration Watch Twitter – https://twitter.com/altonwatch

 

Roehampton November crime figures

For this blog entry, the commentary will be left to the readers.

Do you have any thoughts about the figures?

Over the past months many people have been commenting on the crime figures and it might be time to start putting the verbal discussions into print to encourage debate?

Other crime links that might interest you are;

• UK crime stats – “The leading crime and postcode data research and analysis platform”
• More detailed crime map of Roehampton

Other items that may be of interest;

• SPD Paragraph 2.9 Community safety – a May 2015 blog which refers to the data used by the Council in its Baseline report and raises queries regarding it.
• Crime figures have a look and see what you think – A September 2015 blog about the August crime figures.

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk

Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk

Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email the Wandsworth Council team managing the ‘regeneration’

Team Roehampton – Roehampton@wandsworth.gov.uk

 

Putney Labour Party materials on the Alton Estate

When discussing what the various parties offer the Alton Estate, one aspect that pops up is that not everyone is informed about what they are doing other than the infrequent letter distributions on the estate and not everyone appears to receive them. So this might be of interest.

If any are missing, please do let us know.

2015 distributions

• Roehampton Newsletter October-November 2015
• Roehampton Newsletter June-July 2015
• Roehampton Newsletter February-March 2015
• April campaign material
• April campaign material

2010

• Spring – this introduces us to the Labour candidates of the time and has a few choice comments regarding the previous regeneration attempt
• April 2010

Articles that may be of interest

• Labour’s Roehampton Newsletter June-July 2015 – July blog article with some thoughts regarding this distribution
• Labour February-March newsletter – May blog article with some thoughts regarding this distribution
• Labour’s 2008 Roehampton redevelopment consultation – what’s changed? – May blog article regarding a 2008 piece of work regarding a previous regeneration attempt which does not match with the efforts of the current regeneration

Twitter accounts

• Councillor Carpenter
• Councillor Ambache
• Councillor McKinney
• Councillor Ambache – when he was a member of the Liberal Democrats

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk

Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk

Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email the Wandsworth Council team managing the ‘regeneration’

Team Roehampton – Roehampton@wandsworth.gov.uk

Roehampton Partnership – 1st December 2015

Roehampton Partnership meeting this Tuesday 1^st December

Time: 7pm

Where: Whitelands College (Ruskin Room), University of Roehampton, Holybourne Avenue, Roehampton SW15 4JD.

Have a read of the back page of the draft Minutes, our representatives are “encouraged to attend” this meeting. One would have though, given the supposed importance of this meeting that every effort would be made to “attend”.

Where it mentions “Observers” in the draft Minutes, this means that these are members of the public, so you head down and see what this is all about.

To be added to the mailing list for future Agendas and draft Minutes, reach out to the contact mentioned in the Agenda.

Documents of interest

• Agenda for the meeting 1^st December
• Draft Minutes of the meeting 1^st December 2015
• Roehampton Partnership – read here for information about it – a blog entry which provides more information about the Roehampton Partnership, such as attendance records of the members.

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk

Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk

Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email the Wandsworth Council team managing the ‘regeneration’

Team Roehampton – Roehampton@wandsworth.gov.uk

ARW speaks up for the residents at a Council meeting

On the 20^th October, the draft Minutes of the Community Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee Tuesday, 22nd September, 2015 7.30 p.m. were published. Hooray!

Refer to section 6 of the Council’s meeting to read the latest Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) for the Alton Estate as well as the notes regarding Alton Regeneration Watch speaking up for residents by providing representations.

It’s important to note that the potential listing of Allbrook House and the Library Building were mentioned at the meeting though seem to have escaped being mentioned within the draft Minutes?

Also, note that a Putney Heath and Roehampton ward Labour Councillor provided a representation in favour of the regeneration.

Click on the following links to take you to the meeting and the relevant section;

• Community Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee Tuesday, 22nd September 2015, 7.30 p.m.

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk

Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk

Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email the Wandsworth Council team managing the ‘regeneration’

Team Roehampton – Roehampton@wandsworth.gov.uk

Ibstock School – community use follow up

This is a follow up blog article “Ibstock school theatre can the community use it?” which was about the potential for community use of the school’s new theatre.

We’re not planning application experts though having a new application number (2015/5074) seems a bit strange rather than following on from the original application (2013/0803).

Background to the application is “The Performing Arts Centre (PAC) was due for completion at the end of August 2015. However, it is likely that the final fitting-out of the PAC will continue through to October. The School hopes to have its first production in the PAC in December 2015. The purpose of this submission is to quantify the increase in traffic likely to be caused by the opening of the PAC and its use by the local community and other organisations, and to describe the mitigation measures being put in place”.

Bear in mind that point 13 of the “Permission for Development” dated 11 June 2013 stated “Prior to commencement of the use of the Performance Arts Centre (PAC), details of proposals for the provision of access to the PAC’s facilities for the benefit of the local community, including local schools and clubs, shall have been submitted in writing to the Council for approval”.

Anyway, if of interest the following links may be of interest.

Case File – this has information regarding the PAC Transport statement, the 2016 calendar PAC use, PAC Community Access Proposal.

Comment on the application either via

• online form
• Or send an email to planning@wandsworth.gov.uk

Further information of interest

• “Ibstock school theatre can the community use it?” – this is blog entry which first covered this topic.

Contact

Email us at – roeregeneration@yahoo.com – and let us know of any concerns/thoughts you may have or add a comment at the end of the blog entry in the ‘Leave a Reply’ section.

Or email your Roehampton and Putney Heath Councillors at;

Peter Carpenter – pcarpenter@wandsworth.gov.uk

Jeremy Ambache – JAmbache@wandsworth.gov.uk

Sue McKinney – SMcKinney@wandsworth.gov.uk

Or email the Wandsworth Council team managing the ‘regeneration’

Team Roehampton – Roehampton@wandsworth.gov.uk