Thank you to the many residents who have let Mark know where the potholes are which are littering our roads.

Research by Mark Clarke has revealed that the total cost of compensation resulting from the failures at the maternity unit at St George’s Hospital was a staggering £2.8 million over the last three years.

 
Residents have long pushed for a bus up Trinity Road and across Wandsworth Bridge into Fulham. Thousands of local residents have completed Mark Clarke’s petition calling for this.

The winter weather has played havoc with our roads causing potholes all over Wandsworth

The campaign to get a bus up Trinity Road, across Wandsworth Bridge into Fulham is continuing. Transport for London came back with a proposal which would have seen a bus go up Trinity Road to the bottom of Wandsworth Bridge but not across the river. Passengers would then have had to change and get another bus to Fulham. This would be an improvement but it is just not good enough. 

Increasing numbers of local mothers-to-be are rejecting the idea of having their baby at St George’s Hospital. 

Following the distribution of an anonymous leaflet, some local residents have raised concerns about a possible increase in size of a local Gypsy and Traveller site. For decades there has been a small travellers’ site in Earlsfield at the end of Trewint Road on the banks of the River Wandle. These travellers are well integrated into the local community. Indeed one “traveller” on the site has actually lived there for over thirty years.

Dealing with the snow has been challenging for our local public services. I doubt that this is the last of the snow and so I wanted to give an update on how local public services coped and ask for your help in completing the picture. I will then contact the heads of the different organisations to make sure that they know how they can improve next time.

Tooting latest police initiative is the Tooting Town Centre police unit which started last year.

Finally, Pay-As-You-Go Oyster comes to South West Trains. Commuters will pay less, have a more convenient journey and see a big reduction in ticket queuing times.