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The average Wandsworth home is £686,076, down 5.5% in a year and the ninth steepest fall of 295 areas in England. Prices rose in July for a second month.
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Battersea
Battersea Power Station Ice Rink: 6 Nov to 3 Jan
Glide at Battersea Power Station opens on Friday 6 November 2026 and runs to Sunday 3 January. Session times, festive hours, accessible skates and the extras.
Christmas
Wandsworth Christmas Lights: 12 Switch-Ons, Dates Due
Wandsworth has not published its 2026 switch-on dates yet. Here is every 2025 date and time, from Battersea to Roehampton, and when the council confirms.
Putney
Oasis Academy Putney Closed With 112 Pupils in 420 Places
Oasis Academy Putney shut on 31 August with 112 pupils in a 420-place school. Where records went, who to contact, and how many borough primaries have room.
Battersea
Battersea Power Station: 203 Council Homes Approved
Officers approved 203 council homes at Battersea Power Station on 27 August. Part 18 storeys, car free, and extra to the site's own affordable housing quota.
Council
Wandsworth By-Election: Labour Hold Trinity by 127
Shirin Georgiani held Trinity for Labour with 1,558 votes to the Conservatives' 1,431 on 39.56% turnout. The Conservatives stay one seat short of a majority.
Christmas
Wandsworth Panto: None, But Dear Santa Runs 28 Nov
No Wandsworth theatre stages a panto this year. Battersea Arts Centre has Dear Santa from 28 November, a £15 grotto and a soft play. Nearest panto: Wimbledon.
Heathrow
Heathrow Third Runway: Wandsworth Objects, Deadline Tuesday
Wandsworth and six other councils have told the Transport Secretary a third runway fails the Government's own tests. The consultation closes 11.59pm Tuesday.
Local Info
Wandsworth Bin Collection Days: Nothing Moves Monday
Collections run as normal on Monday 31 August. Garden waste is free here, bulky waste is two free collections a year, and houses get sacks, not wheelie bins.
Local Info
Parking in Wandsworth: Free Bank Holidays, One Big Catch
Marked bays are free on bank holidays, except around Battersea Park. Tariffs are £1.60 to £4.30 an hour, and some streets are controlled for one hour a day.
Local Info
Wandsworth Council Tax Bands: The Lowest Bill in England
Band D is £1,020.35 in 2026-27, less than half the England average of £2,391.52. The full A to H table, plus the £41.38 commons levy that only some homes pay.
Council
Wandsworth £84m Cut: The Law Says Residents Come First
The Leader says Wandsworth's funding falls £84m by 2029. To ask the Government to think again, the council must first try to reach agreement with residents.
Council
Wandsworth By-Election: Trinity Vote Could Decide Control
Polls in Trinity ward close at 10pm today. A Conservative gain takes the party to 30 of 58 seats and an outright majority; a Labour hold leaves nobody with one.
Wandsworth News covers the London borough of Wandsworth: Battersea and Nine Elms, Clapham Junction, Putney and Roehampton, Southfields, Earlsfield, Wandsworth Town, Balham and Tooting. We report what shows up in the public record, the planning applications the council advertises ward by ward, the decisions taken at the Town Hall, police crime figures and the businesses opening and closing across SW11, SW12, SW15, SW17 and SW18. We also keep the everyday information you look up more than once accurate and in one place, checked against the source and dated.
Every fact here comes from a named public source: Wandsworth Council’s own registers and announcements, the weekly planning lists, open crime data from the police, HM Land Registry sold prices and the Food Standards Agency’s hygiene register. We link to that source on every story so you can check it yourself, and we say when we last updated a figure. One local caution we apply to our own reporting: Clapham Junction sits in Battersea and is ours, but Clapham High Street, Clapham North and the south side of Clapham Common are in Lambeth, and Wandsworth Road is in Lambeth too. If we get something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.